Wish

Sometimes I wish we were all still seven kids at home

that we spent our days playing at the creek building stick houses

and our biggest worries were arguing over who was going to wash the supper dishes.

Sometimes I wish none of us were graduated

that we all went to sleep under the same black roof

and that we could spend our afternoons riding our bikes with no hands down the gravel road.

Sometimes I feel like Anne Shirley 

when she said

Why do people have to grow up and marry, change?!

Sometimes I wish we could 

freeze time and just stay seven crazy Chmelar kids forever.

But then we would never have the chance for new memories

new adventures

and deeper relationships than ever before.

Never have the chance for the love to multiply 

to grow

and be shared in place around the world.

So to my six amazing siblings

who I will forever adore with all my heart.

Tiffany

Christopher

Timothy

Grace

Beth

Aubrey 

I love you more than you will ever know

 - love the biggest sister

AndPS

Congrats to you, Timmy

for accomplishing that awesome thing called 'High School'

Now go kick some booty in this big wide world.

I love you