Being the middle child and only girl between two boys taught me a lot growing up. Here are 30 reasons I am utterly thankful for them now.
- Thank you for rough-housing with me and always being ready to wrestle. You taught me how to hold my own.
- Thank you for playing house, daycare, school, and Johnny Appleseed with me.
Thank you for riding bikes with me and running home to get Mom or Dad when I fell off.- Thank you for racing me. I would not be nearly as competitive without you guys making me this way. “If you ain’t first, you’re last” – Ricky Bobby
- Thank you for fighting, arguing, questioning, and challenging my every word and move some days.
- Thank you for playing lava with me on the furniture.
- Thank you for watching "The Brady Bunch" and "Rugrats" with me. Even though you thought I acted like Angelica.
- Thank you for pretending you were "Spy Kids" after we watched it.
- Thank you for letting me use your Max Steel and G.I. Joes as Barbie’s boyfriends.
- Thank you for jumping off your bunk bed with me.
- Thank you for playing Don’t Let the Balloon Hit the Ground.
- Thank you for spending hours playing "Spy Fox," "Rollercoaster Tycoon," and "Pajama Sam" on the computer.
- Thank you for laughing with me until I couldn’t breathe. Or peed my pants.
- Thank you for coming to my dance recitals. Even though I know Mom and Dad made you
- Thank you for playing basketball in the driveway every single day. Especially when we all knew it would end in a bloody war.
- Thank you for squeezing my hand as hard as you can at Mass during the Our Father …..and still doing that.
- Thank you for sledding down Grandma’s steps on sleeping bags. And hiding with me when we got caught.
- Thank you for always letting me borrow your basketball shorts, sweatpants, hoodies, and flannels.
- Thank you for accepting my imaginary friends as your own.
- Thank you for riding the tire swing with me at the park. Even though you both hated it.
- Thank you for telling me when I am being a baby or dramatic.
- Thank you for begging for a dog and getting one. Even though you knew I was terrified and cried about it.
- Thank you for being brutally honest with what you think about everything I say, do, wear, date, befriend, play, and post. Even though it was super annoying, I truly appreciate it now.
- Thank you for coming to every sporting event you could attend. And telling me I did well, even when I know I didn’t.
- Thank you for attempting to bake with me. Like the time you thought vegetable oil can be substituted for corn syrup.
- Thank you for preparing me for middle school, high school, and college. Even though I rolled my eyes and didn’t act like I cared or was listening—I was, and you were right.
- Thank you for keeping my secrets and trusting me with yours.
- Thank you for knowing everything about me and still loving me.
- Thank you for being my best friends. Even though you didn’t have a choice, I’m glad you are both my brothers.
- Thank you; much love, broskis.