My sister!

Can I tell you that I am so, incredibly proud of my sister! She is an amazing person! She is three years younger than me, lives in California by the beach, is fluent in Spanish and runs marathons for the Leukemia Society (we lost our aunt to the disease). She is a strong, independant woman who is not afraid to tell you like it is!
She ran a half marathon (13.1 miles) a couple weekends ago in San Francisco for the Leukemia Society! She is very active in raising money for this wonderful charity! I wish I could be more like her!
And today (11/6/05) - she is running in the biggest marathon of them all - the New York City Marathon! Did you know that you can not just GO to the NYC Marathon? You have to be invited in a way. You put your name in and if you are drawn - then you go. (At least that was the way I understood it). According to the television coverage today - the NYC Marathon is hosting 37 THOUSAND runners - can you believe that? They said that 88 thousand people put their names in to run this marathon and my sis was one of the lucky ones to get pulled!!!
I am just so proud of her! She has made a life for herself and shares it with her husband and their dog and cat. No kiddos there folks - but they pamper the pets just as much! My sister absolutely loves my son - she is forever calling me and asking "would he like this" or "I will send him that"! She is amazing! She also keeps in touch with my step-daughter which is so important to me! My step-daughter does not have a strong female role in her life (short story - her mom has 5 kids but 3 different men and goes out for what I call HOE'n all the time and leaves my step-daughter to watch the kids - she even has to get them up and ready for school every morning! Ok - enough venting)! I am just so glad my step-daughter has my sister to talk to! What a great influence she can be!

I'm a proud sis!

***UPDATE*** My sister finished the NYC Marathon in a personal best time! She finished it in 4 hours, 58 minutes and 55 seconds!!! She placed 24,109 out of the 37,000 that ran! I am so proud of her! What an awesome effort!!! And she said it was an INSANE experience! Lots of people across the whole thing cheering them on - kept her motivated!!!