antiprincess

So, yes, my little sister's pregnant. And I was the first one she told (save her boyfriend), which makes me feel pretty damn special. I mean, my sister and I are cool, but we've never really been as close as I would have liked, and it's been especially hard to nuture our relationship while she's 2 hours away, and both of us are pretty busy. But she did actually come to visit Monday and Tuesday, which was super cool. My mom was pretty supportive about the whole pregnancy thing (it's not like it was my sister's "fault" or anything, she was totally on the pill at the time), as long as my sister agrees not to quit school (my sister's 20, and going into her junior year in the spring) (it actually will work out rather good, as the baby is due mid-summer, and my mom will totally help my sister out when she goes back to school), but my sister hadn't gone to the doctor's yet to get it officalized, and my mom kept on her about all the different reasons it could have been a false positive, and that was bugging the shit outta my sister, so I thought she could use a break. We had a good time.

So, obviously she's keeping the baby. As a family, we tend to be pretty pro-life, and although it makes me feel like I have weak beliefs, if my sister had chosen to get an abortion, I would have been there for her. It wasn't my decision. But she's having the baby, and although we were all a little freaked out at first, especially my sister, the way I figure, the only option is to be happy and excited about it.

I'm feeling a little meloncholy, though. I'm the oldest, and my sister is the first of us siblings to get pregnant, and while I'm going to try and be there for her as much as I can, it's going to be hard, and I'm gonna miss some stuff. I go through waves of missing my family, and right now I'm riding high on one. I miss my family, and my hometown, and the fall and winter seasons they have there. It seems so much more like the holiday season there than it does here. I like my jobs here, and I like the place we have, and I don't hate San Francisco, I just really miss home right now.