My Big Sister March 28, 2007
One of my sisters, Rhonda, was here for the last 3 days helping out around the place. She cooked meals, washed dishes, hung washing, drove me places and generally wrangled Finn. This morning, in particular, she looked after both Finn and Leila while Mark went to work and I slept off a less than remarkable night. She took 3 days annual leave to do this and tonight has flown off to Adelaide to attend a meat processing conference where she’s doing a presentation on training. She’s taking more annual leave in a couple of weeks, in part so that she can be on call to help out if I need it.
While I don’t doubt that we could have survived the last few days without her help, I’m certain that Mark, Finn, Leila and I would have been worse off for it and there may well have some shouting and quite a few tears. Instead, things have been relatively calm and, although Mark & I are tired and Finn is generally a bit discombobulated, we are travelling well.
As Mark has said, Hoorah for Rhonda. Hoorah for big sisters in general.
She is indeed a gem.