2 posts tagged “brothers”

I've been tagged by Sean.

Hmmm.  Going to post 8 random facts about myself.  I will try:

1)  I was the last one in my kindergarten class to learn how to tie my shoes.  My Mom still has the gold cardboard shoe with my name on it that I finally received when I mastered the difficult task!  LOL

2)  Zippers and Escalators make me nervous.  Zippers because I could never zip properly when I was young and always had button up coats because of it.  Escalators because one time my rubber boot got caught in one at Sears.  No damage to my foot but the boot was mangled.

3)  I've worked for the same company for 23 years.  (Whoa!!)

4)  My Dad wanted to name me Deidre Ann when I was born, but my Mom named me Kathleen Elsa (her middle name too).  She saved me from being a Dee Dee!!!  Plus I have to very cool initials of KEG!!!  : )

5)  I met Anthony Edwards at the Williams Inn in Williamstown, MA when one of my friends was going to school there.  He was in a play called 'Speed the Plow' at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.  It was after his 'Top Gun' days...so of course the only thing I could come out with was "I cried when Goose died!"   LOL

6)  I have identical twin brothers.  Growing up there were FIVE sets of twins on our street; including on either side of our house.

7)  I am a scrapbooker and started in 2001.  I love to take photos so it was easy to start!

8)  I'm a huge U2 fan.  I've been lucky to see them up and down the East Coast as well as in Hawaii, Ireland and England.  Where will I see them next???!!!

How do you think having siblings (or not having siblings) affects who you are as a person?

I honestly wouldn't trade my three brothers for anything!  

I have one brother (evil) who is 14 months apart in age from me.  I think that's sometimes why we tend to ruffle each other a bit.  He stole my thunder.  I was the oldest and then HE came along.  (LOL)  But I know he would be there if I needed him.

The twins are 5 years younger than me.  I couldn't wait for them to be born!!  At the time I actually wanted sisters.  The five year old me even told the neighbors that they were twin girls.  My Mom still has the 'Congrats on your twin girls' card saved that she got from one neighbor.  HEY...that's what they get for listening to a five year old! 

I think there is an unbreakable bond with siblings that just isn't the same as with friends.