Basically, you get to meet and interview a possible new sibling. It’s a weird time in your life when your parent says that “you’re going to meet someone special today, oh and they have kids”. What do you do? Panic? What if they are totally weird or bully you? What if they have a weird collection of dead bugs and leave their underwear everywhere? The truth is you don’t know. You never know what you’re going to get when you get a step sibling.
Usually, well at least in my case, I was young when I met all 5 of my step siblings. I had some older and some younger so really I got the whole 360 experience. It was life changing, meeting these kids and knowing that they were going to be a part of my family for the rest of my life. It didn’t take us long to start fighting just like normal siblings, but what I didn’t expect to happen was I started to love them like normal siblings.
Now I only say “like normal siblings” because at the time being so young I had no idea who these kids were and Cinderella told me that step siblings are mean and they bully you. Now that I am older, I don’t have 1 real sister and 5 step siblings. I have 6 siblings. Who I have grown to love so much it consumes my heart, even if they do have weird dead bug collections. There are some people out there they don’t understand why I call all of my siblings my “real siblings”. I love them and they love me, we have stronger bonds than I do with most of my friends. So hell yes I am going to call them my siblings because that is exactly what they are. I feel as if society has made the term “step sibling” into something mean or derogatory and that is certainly not how I feel about my brothers and sisters.
The bond between step siblings is different than one with a blood related sibling. You had to choose to love them, you picked them, and you decided to love each other. You are a combination of best friends and siblings and there will never be a bond quite like that in your life time ever again.
We have our ups and downs just like any of other set of siblings. Sometimes you’ll lock one of them in the pantry, or one of them will accidently set off the house alarm while your baby sitting or maybe they will make you go down a sewer to get the tennis ball you were playing with. The memories you make with your step siblings will be craziest and the fondest memories you’ll carry with you.
So this is to you, the craziest bunch of kids I know, the siblings I choose and who choose me. All six of you bring out something different in me and I wouldn’t trade those relationships for anything. I can’t wait till we are old and wrinkly so we can sit all of our kids down and tell them about the crazy story that was our childhood.
I love you.
