Upon reading that today is National Siblings Day, I started thinking that I'd like to post something sibling related.
My [baby] sister, Jennifer, is eight years younger than I, and although we get along very well, now as adults, the huge gap in our ages was very evident when we were children. Our brother, David, the much loved middle child, passed away in 1982, and Jennifer and I still miss him very much.
In honour of National Siblings Day 2015, I am posting a photograph taken in 1990, by Jennifer, of the two of us.
I'm also posting a poem, entitled Snores Galores, which I wrote in 2002 about Jennifer (pictured on the left) as a child.
Snores Galores
My little baby sister snores
Although she’s only just turned three
She’s louder than a lion roars
No sleep tonight, I guarantee
Although she’s only just turned three
She’ll hog the bed and covers, too
No sleep tonight, I guarantee
She’ll suck her thumb; I swear, it’s true
She’ll hog the bed and covers, too
In slumber, she’ll call out her dreams
She’ll suck her thumb; I swear, it’s true
This could go on all night, it seems
In slumber, she’ll call out her dreams
She’s louder than a lion roars
This could go on all night, it seems
My little baby sister snores
by Nancy Haigh Gordon
