5x you definitely recognize this if you have sisters
The time I lived at home with my sisters was the coziest time of my life. I always found it very nice that it was always busy at our place (it is!) and you were almost never alone at home.
The idea that friends sat at the table in the evening with only two parents and one little brother seemed so quiet and boring to me! If one sister is missing at our place, we already say to each other: ’What are we with so few, huh?‘ The standard reaction of people who hear that I have four sisters is: ’How nice!‘ And that's true, it is very nice. But sometimes not.
These are the five biggest pros and cons:
1. When we all lived at home, I had a sort of unlimited wardrobe. Nothing to wear? It was simple to just walk into one of my sisters' rooms and grab something from her closet. To save myself, I had to make sure I didn't run into the sister in question in the school hallway, because then you could assume that you would have a problem when you got home. And of course, it was the other way around too: that one shirt you had been looking for for three weeks turned out to be hidden in the back of another sister's closet all that time. Nowadays, this shared taste in clothing is visible when at family dinners three out of five sisters turn out to be wearing the same item.
2. Four sisters means in the case of my youngest sister that you have five mothers, including our real mother. It can be very nice when you need advice, but it also means that everyone regularly meddles in your affairs uninvited.
3. The most important thing: you always have your best friends with you. At major life events, you don't have to explain what's going on, how you feel, or why you see things a certain way. They are there for everything, and otherwise, we update each other in the special ‘Ragazze’ app group.
4. Holidays are never boring. When we are all together as a family, we are already seven at the table. On top of that, there are the men and the ever-growing group of grandchildren. We almost never sit down with fewer than fifteen people at the table. Chaotic? Yes. Hysterically festive? Absolutely.
5. And of course, the biggest advantage. What my friends were always most jealous of (or are?): that we always had enough people to reenact the Spice Girls.
