Sisters Reunite
After sharing my last few stories with you … it seems fitting to tell you all a little tale about my sister and I…
I don’t remember why and i don’t really remember how log ago it was! But my sister and I had a falling out many years ago…Over something quite ridiculous probably, but i think that the distance between us played a part. We were never really that close when we were younger; but we are sisters all the same!
I think it is very difficult when you live so far apart, that your individual life’s naturally go off in different or separate directions… having a phone call “once in a blue moon” so to speak makes it very difficult to stay connected… not because we did not care, just a natural thing that happens when you live separate sides of the world. On the occasions that we did speak we had very little to talk about she would say that it was 40 degrees in Australia and i would reply saying well! its 5 degrees and freezing here. We both had similar issues, dealing with husbands, kids, bills and the normal everyday stuff… i know that i look at things from a different prospective i believe that we both needed each other for emotional support and friendship… But for some silly reason we just grew further apart.
We did not speak for many years.. i think we both wanted too, but it all seemed just to difficult to pick up the pieces, so we just didn’t even try. It was not until our Dad became ill that an opportunity was opened up for us to start to communicate. My sister would phone me almost every night after she had seen Dad at the hospital and keep me updated on his progress.
After Dad passed away my sister became quite depressed and eventually went to see a woman to talk things through… This was great for my sister because i could hear how much more positive she had become day by day, just having someone to talk things through. She had buried herself in her office for almost 6 months and was dealing with the grief by creating a book for Dad… She had always loved graphic design and although she had no formal training she was very creative. She sent me the pages one at a time as they were finished and it was absolutely amazing… It had started as a way for her to get everything off her chest but finally evolved into a photographic creation with rose images of all kinds and all different colours that she matched to pictures of our dad… then added poems and words to compliment the pages. The book grew and grew until it reached a massive 80 pages, but it still has not been printed. The book was for our mum, and i think it was a way for my sister to say to our mum how sorry she was that Dad had to leave. Mum & Dad had been married for 57 years and were inseparable and definitely “made for each other”.
The birth of Amazon-lady
Anyway the lady that my sister had been seeing suggested that she should write a blog… My sister told me this and she said that i should start a blog of my own. She said that it would help me get things off my chest and maybe help me to connect with other people in similar situations. I did some research and took the first steps… I secured the domain name for Amazon-Lady and that is how it started. My Dad was a computer guru… but neither my sister or i were that knowledgeable about the intricate stuff, but together we managed to figure it out. My sister became my editor and day by day i would send an email with my stories.
I was never really good at writing but for some reason the words just flowed out of my head and my fingers danced their way around my iPad keyboard. I was on a roll and it just kept coming… story after story until we had about 25 emailed stories that had travelled through cyber space from UK all the way to Australia and onto my sisters computer.
My sister has been a great help over the past few months… she has had her own issues to deal with which started before Dad got sick. Her husband had a heart attack and although it was fairly mild, he had to go into hospital for a few days and had a stent fitted… unbelievably…. Dad went into hospital two weeks after that. My sister had been studying for her certificate in aged and community care when all the family dramas started. Anyway! somehow she has managed to finish the course and do her placement and then she was offered a job as a carer with the local council. She only wanted to work part time but in her scrambled head space, she had indicated that she would be available full time… Well we all know how hard it is to get a job nowadays, so she decided to carry on and see how things went. She has been working full time now for the past 4 weeks and that is part of the reason why my blog posts have slowed down. I have been keeping up with the writing but i always like to run things by my Sister/Editor first ” Just incase the liaisons in my brain have written something that doesnt make sense”. Anyway back to my story….
We researched all kinds of stuff and finally came up with Word Press to create the blog Blue host to host the blog and then we were set.…the one person who has been a great help with the setup is a guy called Court Tuttle and his web site was invaluable and is a great place to get lots of practical information about how to set up a blog have a look at his page here. http://www.theblogbuilders.com
We have had such a laugh and have achieved so much over the past 12 months… I am very sure that Dad would not only be surprised at what we have managed to create together, but i am sure he would be very happy we have patched up our differences but above all he would be very proud of his two daughters achievements.
I hope you enjoyed reading Sisters Reunite… Thats all for now! Amazon-Lady