Sweet, Sweet Sister

It’s almost Thanksgiving. Your favorite Holiday. And this year, This. Year. YOU, sweet sister, brought all of us together 🤍

You told me you had a weird feeling why we’d all be together this year. You weren’t sure why. But you had a feeling there was a reason.

You were SO excited for this weekend and coming week. We ordered the girls matching holiday dresses to go to the RLXCL Holiday Party downtown. Filled with your favorite things. RL+CL jewelry. Almost all your sisters on all sides of the family and Mom, together. 3 out of the 4 girl cousins in their matching holiday dresses. You were SO excited. Voula and I are here.

Brent’s family moved from AK to WI this summer and one of the first things you texted on our sibling text thread was that now he can be at Thanksgiving at your house! You were SO excited. And in true Brent, Air Force Pilot, Serious-man fashion, he replied ‘he’d have to see what the schedule would be but he’d get back to us.’ 🙄🤣 We knew he’d be there 😉 Brent is here and his family will soon be here.

You asked Rod if he and his family could come this weekend so he could be the photographer at Papou’s Surprise 80th Birthday party and then just stay through Thanksgiving. (Happy Happy 80th Birthday, Papou!) Ohhhhh, How Papou and Yiayia love you so, sweet sister. They are here…And Rod’s family, is here.

You got the house ready to sleep everyone. Mom, Sharon, Rod’s family and Brent’s family. At YOUR house. You even painted and got new furniture to be able to host your biggest Thanksgiving yet. Mom is here. And Sharon was here this weekend. Not for the festivities you may have had planned, but I know she’s so glad she was here!

The day after Thanksgiving you planned that we’d take all the cousins to Zoo Lights and everyone would come back to Crystal Lake to play at our house and have Chicken Chili.

Saturday. Saturday we were going to all head to Milwaukee to spend the day with Dad. All his Grandchildren would be running around playing in the gym of his church and school so we could all just be together. Dad was here.

These plans. These plans for your favorite Holiday were because of you, sweet sister.

Yet, much of them didn’t happen. We’ll take the next days one at a time. But there was a reason for all of it. We’re all here. With you.

You would need all of us here with you. That feeling you had. Why was it working out this year all of us would be together? Because God knew we’d also, all need each other. To be physically, together.

You promised Angelo tonight you’d be okay. You might not remember 3 minutes later that you made that promise. But we’ll remember until you do. Ang is going to hold you to that promise. And we will help you get there along the way 🫶🏼 And P.S. Angelo is most definitely here ♥️

You got us here. For Thanksgiving. Your Favorite Holiday. What a party we’ll have when you see all of us here. With you. We’ll all look around and see everyone together. Thanking God you’re here with us. And God will whisper in your ear and say, “This is why.”

~XOXO