I Carry Your Heart With Me

I love the movie - In Her Shoes. While Devon has bigger feet than me, we've still shared lots of clothes, laughs and tears together over the past year living together. When I saw the movie for the first time (on HBO a few months ago) I boo hooed during that poem b/c it really hit me how much I love my sister. I am going to miss her so much. And her dog Scarlette who is part of our family and my dogs will be lost without her.

When my sister was born I was in 2nd grade, and while mom said I could stay out of school to welcome Devon home from the hospital I could not be bothered with that...it was the day of the science fair after all! Devon hated everyone but mom the first year of her existence so needless to say I wasn't too impressed with this little sister thing. In her toddler years she loved to torment me by 1) putting her feet on me all of the time and 2) going potty in her bed, getting up and getting in bed with me with her wet pjs, and then wetting my bed too. Oh the love I felt for this child...she'll tell you I got her back by never letting her touch my barbies or my sticker books.

During my high school years I didn't have much time for lil sis, and our family wasn't doing too great overall so she lived with my dad for a while. So we lost out on alot of time together...it really wasn't until Devon got to college that we started to talk often. She was (and is) someone that doesn't show alot of emotion and she also has alot of common sense. She doesn't judge people and she doesn't care much what other people think. Devon was there for me when I felt my whole crashing down 5 years ago - she listened to me cry and yell and would talk to me for hours on the phone when she could. I don't know if I would have made it through it all without her.

She was my first and only phone call from Vegas with my marriage news - I told her she could only tell if the plane crashed:) She knew right away she was going to be an aunt (she already is an Aunt - Marsh has called her Aunt Devon since we brought Munson home 3 years ago and even has it programmed into his cell phone). She is also the one that sets the time on my
Timex and figures out how to record on our DVR. I hope she can give me directions over the phone!!!

I know my sister will have a wonderful life in Dallas. This is her time - and I can't wait to be there for her wedding, her babies, everything. I carry her heart in my heart. Always.