Personal Blog | Letter to my Brother | Michael & Carina Photography

I’m writing this because I’m a little homesick, but that’s only part of the reason. The main reason I’m writing this is because I am SO proud of my little brother, so I just had to say so…

My little brother, Jonas, called me yesterday.

He was excited to tell me all about his college plans and how he is excelling in math at school.

He is almost finished with grammar school and is starting to pick out already what courses he is going to take in university.

My brother is gifted. He’s not only skipped a grade, but he is excelling in math, English, physics, soccer, piano… you name it, and he is probably good at it.

Except history. Weird for a boy, I know! But it’s just not his thing.

But that’s nothing new…

My brother could count backwards from 100 before he could spell his name… 

But he recently completed a “test week” at a university in Munich so he could get a feel for it…

Wow. I was speechless. It made me realize how fast time passes and how much you miss when you’re not there.

I have missed my little brother Jonas dearly ever since we’ve moved to the United States.

Thank goodness he is coming to visit us this summer!

All the happy times of my childhood include you, Jonas.

You made my heart jump the first time I heard I was going to have a little brother.

I remember the night you were born.

I was seven years old and I was staying at our grandparents’ house and when the night had crept up on me, although I was desperately trying to stay awake, I heard the phone ring downstairs.

I threw the covers off the bed and jumped up, ran down the stairs and stretched my arm out for my grandma to hand me the phone.

I knew you were a boy – at least I had been hoping for that for the previous 9 months.

I wasn’t going to put up with all the trouble little sisters come with.

I remember the first time I saw you. I sang “Alle meine Entchen” (All my little duckies) over and over and over. The unfortunate thing about this particular song is that there is only one short stanza. But I kept repeating that one stanza over and over… and over and over… and sometime you fell asleep in my arms..

We went hiking together, to museums and on vacations. I gave anything to hold your little hand, to play sandcastle with you, to carry you around. Any day was great if it was spent with you. We baked Christmas cookies together all day long and cuddled up to listen to mom’s bedtime stories. I would even convince mom to let me sing you your lullaby sometimes.

Eventually, when our mom and dad couldn’t stay together anymore, we were there for each other. You, Mike and I. I am so thankful for this time we could spend together.

Especially since we knew that we were going to move to America soon..

I cherished every moment with you, Jonas. I had the best of times walking to the ice cream shop with you at night and having you help us out on weddings and photo shoots. You are the best assistant ever.

On August 19^th, 2012 the day had come to say good-bye, for a while. We had pushed it back as far as we could. But we knew this was the right path for us at the time. Hugging you goodbye was the hardest part about leaving.

The pictures of our last holiday together in Rome are shuffling on our computer desktop here, on the other side of the world. I miss you and I’m so proud at the same time.

You are one of my best friends. I know you’re “just” my “baby brother”, but to me you still mean the world.

And even though I doubt you would want me to sing “Alle meine Entchen (All my little duckies)” to you, build sandcastles with you or show you off to my classmates, I want you to always remember, that I am very, very proud to be your sister! I can hardly wait for this August to come when you will visit us here in the U.S.

    Your sister, Carina.

PS. I hope you plan on also being our assistant again when you’re here! Trololo))))

 

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