zemonkey
New member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2011
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- United States
- Current Location
- United States
When reflecting on events in my life that have forever changed me, there is one that is highlighted above all the rest; a winter night from 2004 when I found out I was going to be a sister. Let me begin by telling you that I spent ten, long years as an only child. By that point, all my hope of ever having a sibling was long lost and my aspirations had shifted to the attainment of a puppy. But that night, without any hesitation in his voice, my father announced to me that my mother was pregnant. I remember not knowing what to feel; immediately it was disbelief, which transformed into shock, which grew into elation. However, that elation was short-lived as my mother was hospitalized just a month after learning the news. I was too young to understand the full extent of what was happening, but my family was sent into a whirlwind of stress and worry; both for my mother's life, and for the life of my yet unborn baby sister.