family observations

I'm going to be an aunt again!! This isn't recent headline news. I've known for awhile. My brother called to tell me that the new one is "a dude".

Last night I was thinking about how vastly different my life is from my brother's life. Any sort of commonality that we shared in the past dissolved the minute he got married. Not that we really shared any interests before that anyway. We spent the first 18 years of our lives together and I dare say that we don't even know each other. Maybe it's the silent Norwegian in us that kills an open line of communication. The silence suites me just fine... I guess we just can't crack each other's shells to figure out what is really going on with us.