They Did Everything Together

When the boys were infants I could not tell them apart. At all! The first time I held Sam he looked up and smiled at me. He was much too young to control his smiles and it was completely random. But being about 14 years old at the time I didn’t know that. From that moment until well into their teen years, the only way I could tell them apart was to wait for one to smile. As they got older I began to look for the different haircuts or differences in personality and not just the smiles. So if they ever thought of me as the weird older cousin who awkwardly always tried to get them to smile, now you know why. I was just trying to figure out who the heck I was talking to lol. One summer at The Cape we were all sitting around Grammys dining room table having our own little conversations. I was singing a (rather long)nursery rhyme to my children. One of which was clearly getting bored and loosing interest. Out of nowhere Jim and Sam, who were teens at the time, joined in singing. They added the hand motions and all. They kept the kids attention for the rest of the song much better than I ever did. After the song was over they went right back to their other conversations. That memory always brings a huge smile to my face. Brooke