Family Portraits: Noodleblonde

You all don't know my family that well yet. Of course you have probably read my "Lovely Family" page of this blog, but a line about each person isn't sufficient for you to know them. :) Thus I am going to go through the members of the great big family God has given me, (in no particular order) and let them have their fifteen minutes of fame. After all, how can you really know me unless you know the people I'm around 24-7? It just doesn't compute.

This is the sister right below me: Sarah. Alias Noodleblonde. Alias Cece

You will know her as...Sarah or the Nocturnal Why, depending on which of our blogs you've been reading. Sarah and I have a special relationship. We are [nearly] complete opposites, and yet this is why we fit so nicely together. I tend to be a dreamer, a wisher, a hoper. Sarah tends to be practical--more concerned with figuring out how it will happen than deciding that it should happen.

She is a quiet debater, as anyone who stays up late with her will find out: Why? Why is the moon sometimes invisible at night? What direction is North? How do you know?

Which brings me to the second point. Sarah is a night-owl. She squirms when anyone mentions early bedtimes.

Sarah loves coffee (we are united in this.) and making unheard of projects like Black Forest Cake.

She's always up for a challenge and will do something just because someone doubted her ability to do it.

She always wins the no-smiling-no-blinking game.

She always wins the wish-bone tug-of-war when we make chicken or turkey.

Sarah is an excellent photographer and documents our life and God's beauty with her...her...oh yeah.  Konika Minolta. (Or something like that. :P)

I can always count on Sarah to find the best pins on Pinterest before me so that I have to re-pin all of her pins. ;)

I can always count on her to understand my random train of thought.

She can carry on a conversation with me made up (mostly) of period-drama quotes.

She anticipates my reaction to things so that I don't feel the need of reacting. ;)

She has a gift in music.

She is my Coastal-baking buddy and is not afraid to belt out songs in her man-voice so that my own  softer soprano can carry the girl-part.

She deciphers my unofficial sign-language as if she was fluent in it. (I believe she is.)

Another lesson I often learn from Sarah is that of being silent. She isn't an introvert by any means, and yet she isn't always the one talking. Sarah has a spirit of cheerfulness and gratefulness that is always inspiring to me. She's up for a challenge so whatever the trial of the moment is, we can generally count on her to roll up her sleeves and step right in. She has that gift of being still and knowing that He is God. She is the Mary in the moments where I'm feeling like Martha. She challenges me to enjoy the little things in life constantly. 

Oh. She's also good with money. So good she won't spend it. 

That's a bit of Sarah, and that's only part of why I love her so much! :)