Growing up I always wanted a younger sibling, but at a point in my life I gave up that idea. I simply came to terms that I had grown too old and so had my parents. Don't get me wrong I loved the only child life, but it simply got boring at times.
Just when I thought all hope was at a loss the summer before my senior year of high school, my parents told me that my mom was pregnant. I was ecstatic to say the least. Time seemed like it flew by and before I knew it my brother was born, December 2013.
The day he got home there was a snow storm, so those two days I really got to learn things about him. My mom was on bed rest and my dad was working so at times it was just me and him. In the last two and a half years he has taught me a lot.
When he first came home it was getting close to Christmas so the songs that were on my mind to sing were of course, Christmas song. I would sing him to sleep at times or when he didn't want his diaper changed. Overall despite the crying and the stinky diapers these moments were peaceful and ones that I will always cherish. Today he sings Christmas songs non stop; it makes me stop and smile. Whenever I'm stressed at school I simply just FaceTime him and laugh, it just makes everything else not seem so bad.
Having a little brother with such a huge age gap has made me grow up more, because at times I am the one he depends on. I am one of the people he looks up to. He makes me realize that life doesn't have to be so stressful. And that I should, stop and enjoy it while I can. I think about the fact that when he is my age I will be almost forty; it crazy to think about and really drives me to be great so that he has someone to always look up to no matter what. Some days he is simply the reason I have stuck with school and haven't dropped out. Yes I joke about it all the time but if I just stop for a quick second and think about him, that thought goes away.
I truly can't wait to see him grow and become such a great person. I feel so blessed to have been able to in a way help raise my little brother.
