Playing catch

[anghara]

When we were both little, the cousin I always call my sister (in my language she is my sister-from-aunt, which confuses the heck out of everyone who knows that we were both only children...)were always playing catchup. I was born in July, she in APril the following year; I would always turn something, in terms of age, and then she would "Catch up"

Comments

[celtic_songster]

Awww...I have a cousin like that. She's 5 months behind me, I think.

What's the word in your language? Come to think of it...what IS your language?

[anghara]

I was born in what used to be Yugoslavia, in the part that is now referred to as Serbia and Montenegro. My mother's family's roots in Serbia date back to the 1500s; my dad, whose family is a terribly mixed up and intermarried bag of tricks, comes from Bosnia&Herzegovina and although his family is of muslim faith he considers himself an ethnic Serb. So that's what we speak between ourselves in the home - the language which once used to be known as Serbo-croat and which the subssequent strife has split into its component parts of Serb and Croatian. Few people, alas, these days will tell you they speak Serbocroatian...

[celtic_songster]

Ahhhhhhh...interesting. My family is Croatian, but unfortunately my grandfather (the first generation born here) wanted very much to American-ize, so we've lost a lot of the culture and all of the language. I wish I knew more about it.

[eneit]

being the youngest of 40 first cousins, I tended to be a bit spoilt as a little girl. But I have a very close friend with whom I share a similar sort of relationship as you described here. It doesn't matter how busy our lives have become, we only have to say "g'day" on the phone to be transported back to our childhood days.