A restoration unforseen

Most of you know that my sister Rebecca is in Toccoa for a few weeks.  I am sitting in my living room right now.  Everyone is asleep.  My son is curled up on one couch...and my sister is stretched out on the other couch.  I stared at them for a long while.  It doesn't seem...probable.  All that has been suffered over her life and mine...compared, we should not be so calm.  We should no be so easy going.  The weight we have each carried would bring the strongest man to his knees...but yet here we are, together, sharing a roof...sharing meals...sharing my children.  Restoration, unexpected and unforseen.  Last night, after a long but fun day, we all struggled to keep our eyes open.  She laid her head on my shoulder.  I had forgotten how touchy she was.  I am not someone who likes to be touched..at all!!  Anyway, she laid her head on my shoulder and I thought, "This has been too easy!".  We picked up where we left off.  It seems as if the last 5 years has not separated us at all.  Oddly, it prevokes a small unnerving feeling in me.  I am not the sister she saw 5 years ago.  Does she notice that?  Should that bother me?  It won't ruin this time...but I wonder if all I have been through in the last 5 years makes the difference to the ones who matter most. 

She arrived Wednesday morning early.  She had never met my kids so when I had to go in and take Eli to the potty she walked into the kids room.  Eli saw her and did a total (and totally obvious) double take.  We just laughed together.  I don't know that my kids have seen many black people...and I can assure you no black people in their room at night.  She enjoys them so much.  They are still warming up to having to share their house and their mom.  Maddie will snuggle with Aunt Becca a few times a day!  That makes Becca's day...of course<3