Youngest Sister: The Adventure Begins
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The Hardin Sisters. I am the adorable one in the middle.
I am the youngest of three girls, and that fact has shaped my life. I am quite sure that this order of birth has had the greatest influence on my development, from when I was very small and would perform demoralizing tasks on demand for my sisters in return for nothing more than the promise that they would play with me, to today when I continue to do exactly the same thing.
Jocelyn Voo, a contributor to parents.com writes,
"Youngest children tend to be the most free-spirited due to their parents' increasingly laissez-faire attitude towards parenting the second (or third, or fourth, or fifth...) time around. The baby of the family tends to be:
Fun-loving
Uncomplicated
Manipulative
Outgoing
Attention-seeker
Self-centered"
That description works for me but in this blog I choose to celebrate the fun-loving and attention-seeking qualities because the self-centered and manipulative qualities don't strike me as being very attractive. I enjoy myself the most when I am making things, and most things I make are gifts for people and are meant to make them laugh. I have a huge collection of projects in a file on my computer called "creative nonsense," and in this blog I will share these timeless creations along with instructions for how to make them. And then you will make them and share my posts with your friends and family and they will share with their friends and family, and so on, until Youngest Sister becomes a thing. And being a thing is what it's all about. I have 14 minutes and 12 seconds left of my 15 minutes of fame and it's time to start using it up. It has been too many years since I appeared on TV holding one of the baby chicks in Mrs. Toms' second grade class.
Before you become too engrossed in the smattering of posts I have created to demonstrate the type of content Youngest Sister will be offering you in the future, I need for you to do something. Look around you. Make a note of where you are sitting, what you are doing, what the sky looks like outside. Because, one day, when Youngest Sister has become a thing, people will ask each other, "Do you remember where you were when YOU first saw it?" Maybe you will be in a line getting ready to purchase a ticket to see Youngest Sister: The Motion Picture. Maybe you will have just bought a Happy Meal with Youngest Sister collectible figures, Collect All Three! Wherever you are, you will be able to say, "I've been into Youngest Sister since the very first post and I remember exactly where I was when I read it." And then you will tell them what I just told you to make a note of and they will admire your prescience in discovering the next big thing before everyone else. As a matter of fact, post where you are and what you are doing in the Comments field below. That way I will know whether the Comments function is working. Then take a look at my Fun with Sara post and make a cartoon for a friend. If you're proud of it, and you absolutely should be, send it to me and I'll share it with the world for you and praise you like Momma always praised me by saying, "That's very pretty honey. Now go play with your sisters so I can cook suppuh." Only they wouldn't play with me, so I just went back to the playroom to make something else. And the rest is history (or soon will be).
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