They Did Everything Together

As an only sisters household, I never got to experience what it was like to have a brother but when my cousins were around I had 6 of them with vastly different personalities, temperaments, and interests. Jim and Sam were the life of the party, full of laughter and jokes, humor and shenanigans. They were always up to something - whether it was streaking through the house in nothing but their bunny towels, calling me “Megan” in a tone to knock me down a few pegs, playing keep away with my stuff, taking away my game controller because I kept making it snow on their football video game and messing up the play, or being “sneak-ers” under the table with Lizzie during every family dinner. An adventure at Grandma and Pa’s often ended with all of us — 4 Skrables and 2 Fortgangs — collapsed in a heap on the giant pull out bed sound asleep in a tangle of limbs. Once Lizzie and I spent the night in Mahwah and Aunt Jo and Uncle Tommy bravely took all six of us out for dinner. After we ate, a woman came up to us and said “wow, your children are so well behaved!” If only that lady had seen the chaos we had made of the house only a few hours before... but I was so pleased to be one of their siblings for the night. ❤️ Meg