Sister Day Tomorrow
By fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29823)
Momence, Illinois
April 20, 2017 10:55am CST
My older sister and I are both retired, but our younger sister works sadly. But tomorrow she is off work and has decided she wants to spend the day with us. I am excited, we don't get to spend the day together very often so when she calls we both go running.
I come from a family with 5 of us siblings. Three girls and two boys in that order. My mom should have had 8 kids but she had a still born and two miscarriages. So us 3 girls are the oldest of the bunch and oddly enough our birthdays are very unusual to say the least.
My older sister and I are exactly 1 year and 1 day apart. Her birthday is June 29 mine is June 30. My younger sister and I are exactly 11 months to the day apart, her birthday is May 30. Needless to say my parents were good Catholics lol. So the day my younger sister was born my parents had a almost 2 year old, an 11 month old and a newborn. Crazy stuff if you ask me. But because of our close births we are very close sisters. And totally different as we can be. Karen my older sister is very private. I am more opinionated and boisterous, and my younger sister Janet is very emotional. Some people say we look similar but I don't think so.
Karen has red hair, I have brown hair, Janet is a blond. But one thing that is true is our voices. My husband has a very hard time deciding who is on the phone, Karen or Janet, and my mom said the same thing. Once we all moved out and one would call she for a couple of seconds had to really concentrate on who she was talking to. And we are her kids for goodness sake.
Oh yea another thing that is very similar about us sisters is our height. We are all extremely short. I am the 2nd oldest but am the shortest at 4 foot 10 inches. My 2 sisters are at about 5 feet each.
Do you have similarities you share with you sibllings, or are you all very different.?
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13 responses
@LadyDuck (457965)
• Switzerland
21 Apr 17
@Lupita234 It's nice to have at least one sibling.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
All my brothers and sisters are short.
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@LadyDuck (457965)
• Switzerland
23 Apr 17
@fishtiger58 My parents were both not very tall, my brother is the tallest in the family, even if some of my cousins are very tall too.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
21 Apr 17
3 of us siblings got our features from our mother; 3 from our father.
i sound like a crying transgender while my sister sounds sweet on the phone.
i and my sister are 11 years apart; i and her first daughter are also 11 years apart.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Apr 17
@ridingbet sounds unique, cool friend.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
23 Apr 17
@fishtiger58 that is great. not too much age gap between you and them.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
We have an age gap of 8 years from the oldest to the youngest.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
20 Apr 17
I'm the oldest... my next sister is very different from me in just about everything. My little sister... we are very much alike! Funny how things are played out.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Apr 17
@fishtiger58 haha that is normal.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
Very funny the way some of us are alike and some are not. We are the same, some different some the same.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
All 1 year 3 months wow strange how that all worked out. I'm glad I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers, we have different types of relationships.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
20 Apr 17
Well i have 9 siblings through my "dad". Only know two. One is my whole sibling and i live with. We have my stupid "fathers" big forehead and big nose.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
23 Apr 17
@fishtiger58 you may think that but when you leaat expect it you may see it. Lol thats what happened with me. Didn't believe it then out of nowhere it wss in my face.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
@Courtlynn Yea hate when that happens lol.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
My mom says we have the same nose us 3 sisters but I don't think so.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
22 Apr 17
Well me and my brother share some similarities but not to much, my younger half brother Kenneth looks just like our dad from pictures we saw of him as a kid. My sister doesn't really look like anyone in our family, and my other two younger half Siblings look like there mother.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Apr 17
@chrissbergstrom, That is great family history.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
I am the spitting image of my mom, I have heard it all my life. Some of us favor our dad and some our mom.
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@snowy22315 (169893)
• United States
20 Apr 17
I only have one sister..We have some similarities but major differences as well. One thing that is funny though is that our voices are identical. The only one who could tell our phone voices apart is my dad.!
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
It's so strange when your voice sounds like someone else even if it's a sibling. Apparently we all 3 sound alike. To me it our voices don't sound the same but most other people think we do.
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@Juliaacv (48389)
• Canada
20 Apr 17
I come from a similar family-good Catholics who didn't practise birth control quite the same way we did!
I am second out of 4 kids, and the only girl-yeah......life was really good being the only one.
My older brother is 1 day shy of 11 moths older then I am.
My parents had all 4 kids within 4 years.
Being a parent myself, I do not know how they did that.
Out of all of us 4 kids none of us go by our given names, we all go by a shortened version of it or by a middle name.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
All my siblings go by their given name except they don't call me by my given name, they all call me Tiger because my dad nicknamed me that when I was 1 year old. The entire family calls me Tiger still to this day and I"m almost 59 lol.
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
20 Apr 17
@Lupita234 yes it is and I missed them terribly
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
23 Apr 17
@fishtiger58 different period here.I am from the thirties generation.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
@amadeo I'm so sorry Alfredo, I still have all mine, can't imagine them not being here.
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@Marilynda1225 (79678)
• United States
20 Apr 17
My two oldest daughters are 19 months apart in age and I thought that was hard. I can't imagine how your mom took care of three babies so close in age but it's really nice that the three of you are so close. My youngest daughter is three years younger than daughter #2 and then along came my son a few years later. My oldest and youngest daughter look very much alike in height, weight and hair color. The middle daughter is short and looks like my inlaws side of the family. My son has a little resemblance but everyone kids that he was adopted as he's tall and slim.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
My sons are 13 months apart and while I don't think they look alike at all most people I know tell me they both look like me. My youngest is tall and slim like my husband and my oldest is shorter like my side of the family
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Apr 17
Tat is very nice story of you and your sisters. I am so happy for your bond to happen together. I can hear your giggles and laughter sky is the limit.We also have similarities with my sisters, our voice and our eyes. Our height is different, I am 5' 4' my other sisters 5'5 brothers 5'8 and 5'6 at least we almost have the same voices,lols.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
25 Apr 17
To look similar is understandable but I don't think we sound a bit alike but many others think we do.
@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
25 Apr 17
Oh your short too, my youngest sister is the prettiest of the 3 of us in my opinion.
@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
20 Apr 17
What a nice bunch of siblings! It's only me, here.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Apr 17
We had our fights as siblings do but I'm so happy to have siblings.
