The weeks are quickly flying by and I am already on my second last challenge. This week my goal was to spend some time with my family. I have four younger siblings and each of them have very full schedules. Because it can be difficult to make time for them, I decided to dedicate this week’s challenge to them.
When I arrived home from the airport on Monday night, they gave me a warm welcome back. I was very exhausted because I had been awake since four in the morning, but I appreciated their excitement to see me. My family completely understood my exhaustion and forced me to go to bed soon after my arrival.
The next evening, I was still quite tired but needed to force myself to stay awake to try and get back into creating a normal sleeping pattern. My two youngest siblings were watching a movie downstairs. I think it was a Disney channel movie, but I can’t remember the name of it. However, I sat with them and watched a two-hour movie about a girl who had never played soccer before but was placed on a soccer team. Spoiler alert, she scores the winning goal at the end of the film.
My siblings talked away commenting on the whole movie, as you do when you’re ten, and it was honestly just nice to watch them have such a good time. I listened to all their little stories throughout the movie, which ended up being a great strategy to keep me awake.
For our next hangout, I had planned to do something a little more active, but the weather that week was not great. We were going to go bowling or mini-golfing, but there were snowstorms for most of the end of the week. The roads seemed too bad to risk driving just to play a round of mini-golf, so we ended up staying home instead.
We had a board game day indoors and then my sister and I spent almost two hours just talking and catching up on one another’s lives. We have always been close, but she just began college this year, so we hardly see each other anymore with our conflicting schedules. It was nice to find out what was going on with her.
This week’s challenge was nothing elaborate, but my main goal this week was to make sure my siblings didn’t feel neglected. I don’t always make the time for them that I should or hang out with them as much as I used to. They’re all growing up to be awesome people and even though they are at completely different stages in life, it is important to still make sure they feel supported.
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