Happy Birthday, Melissa!

So, I'm a few days late, but, my little sister just turned eighteen.

How crazy is that? It kind of makes me feel old, and it means that, by the time I get back from Kenya, she'll be off to college somewhere, learning how to be a movie star. I swear it wasn't that long ago that we were coloring the edging around our entire yard, in an attempt to convince our parents that we really were out of chalk and needed a new bucket of it; or melting chocolate bars with magnifying glasses, so that we could "make" candies to give to our mom. But, apparently, it was.

Now we pay my dad gas money at the beginning of every month; Melissa leads a small group of middle schoolers; and, well, I just watched one of our friends drill a hole through an M&M with his knife, so that he could dip it in the chocolate fountain. ...Maybe things haven't changed so much after all...

Happy Birthday, Melissa!