Kara: My Other Half

After the first post of my upstart 2012 blog career last night, My sister Kara was the first person to tell me what she thought of it (it was a sarcastic remark about how nobody cares about it or something like that) which was expected haha. It is the way Kara and I deal with eachother on most days.

Let me rewind for you people who might not know what I am talking about. I am a twin, although she did try to kill me before we were even born... Kara and I were born less than 2 minutes apart in Boulder Colorado, November 2nd, 1994. My mom had to have a C-section because Kara was persistent on kicking me down and sideways to the point where a regular child birth was not possible! Thanks to her, that meant I was born first, making me the oldest in the Bernstein family. (I'll never let her forget that)

Growing up in Knoxville Tennessee, Kara did everything before I did... She started crawling, talking, growing faster than I did. (believe it or not, she was bigger and taller than me until about 5th grade). But she has always been a patient and kind girl, so she waited for me! She even stopped walking and waited for me to be able to learn before she started again. We looked almost the same for our first few years, she was my other half!

When we were 7 years old, we left TN for Burnsville because of my dads job transfer. By that time, I was blooming into my outgoing, talk all the time, social, never stop laughing type of kid that i still am today! Kara was always more shy, but she was and still is the nicest girl i have ever met, and the best sister i could have asked for! (I don't tell her that as much as I should)...

We graduated Oak Ridge Elementary and moved on to Blackhawk Middle School a few years later. I had my friends and she had hers, we never had any classes together but we got along just fine! I'm sure I was annoying and mean to her most of the time, which I regret... But around the beginning of 8th grade, Kara completely came out of her shell! She started hanging out with a whole new group of girls, who happen to be some of my best friends these days as well. Kids like Rachel Galloway, Megan Sulistyo, Maggie Larson and many others, some of the nicest girls i know! And before i knew it, we were on our way to Eastview, and the rest is history!

These days, Kara and I are still very close. We are both very opinionated and we fight sometimes (I have had some bad anger management issues my whole life). Unfortunately, I usually end up taking out most of my anger on Kara, sometimes for very stupid reasons. But my main goal in writing this is to let you all know how lucky I am to have a sister like Kara. Some of the best times in my life are when us two are just hanging out! Whether it be at the kitchen table late nights or slapping jellyfish together on Indian Rocks Beach, she makes me laugh more than any other person. (We are both extremely weird, for those of you who don't know already).

So hopefully you read this sometime soon Sis, I know we argue sometimes, but i wouldn't trade you for the world! I am so proud of everything you do and i'm so happy to have you around every day! Don't ever change...

-Big Bro  :)