30 Things, Day 24...family dynamic

24. Describe your family dynamic of your childhood vs. your family dynamic now.
I grew up in a household with four sisters and one brother, a stay-at-home mom and a dad who worked outside the house and built computers at home in his basement in the evenings.
As you can imagine there were often squabbles.
I now have my own little family...just me, and two precocious girls.
As you can imagine, there are often squabbles.
However, we are incredibly blessed to live in the same city as four of the five siblings.  We don't get together all that often, and because we are all human...there are still misunderstandings... but they are mine.  Built in friends who share some history with me and have all kinds of stories on me, and opinions of me.
It is a blessing, because God picked us for each other.  And through thick or thin, big arguments or little, loads of laughter and sometimes tears, they are blood...they are mine.
After all, how many of us can actually say they grew up surrounded by five siblings!