Ever since she was born, this girl has been a little ball of sunshine. I saw her every Sunday with a toothless, ear-to-ear grin. I held her once as a baby and thought she was the happiest little thing I ever saw.
As Jessica grew up, I found myself, amazingly and gratefully, given a front row seat to her life, so to speak. After a few babysitting nights and dance classes, she stuck to me like gum to a shoe. That was the cool part: she picked me. She requested me more and more to be her babysitter and every Sunday during Sacrament she sat on my lap. She still does it to this day.
Apart from being my little shadow, she came to almost every event that I performed in. That's the part that really gets to me. Being the youngest with 3 married siblings off doing there own thing, I found myself feeling very much alone. A lot of times only Mom came to my performances. Jessica and her family were like the family members Heavenly Father forgot to give me. I could always count on them to be there in the audience, cheering me on in whatever I was performing.
She has practically been my little sister for so long, it's hard to think of a time when she wasn't in my life. Heck, we even look somewhat similar. I have friends now who look at a picture of her and ask, Is this your little sister? And they don't believe me when I say no.
I know I say it a lot, but I always feel like it's never enough. I am so grateful to this little girl and her family for being there when my own family couldn't. They have changed my life forever.
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