Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Olivia made it! And, she made it one year early! She is almost officially a high school graduate. The funniest thing about this for me is thinking back to my own graduation, and how Olivia was just a rolly-polly eight year old kid :) And now, she's a beautiful young woman who has a lot of dreams for her future. I want every one of them to come true!

When Olivia was born, I wanted her to be a mini version of me. I resented the fact that she wasn't anything like me at times. I did ballet, she played basketball. I LOVED every moment of high school, and she didn't really care for it. I knew that I wanted to be a teacher since 1st grade, Olivia changes her mind about everything all of the time. We're so different, and yet I admire everything that she is. She is really smart. She dreams big! She takes chances, some of which I wish she wouldn't. There isn't anything safe or predictable about Olivia, and I wish I had a little bit more of that quality in myself. Oh, and my favorite quality about Olivia is that she isn't caught up in other people's opoinions of her. She dresses how she wants to, wears her hair how she wants to with no regard for the in-crowd, etc. I was much too caught up in all of that junk.

All in all, my little sister is awesome.