Oh wow sooz. Even when my sister was fostered with us she still seemed just like a sister to me. One girl who spent a lot of time with us while her parents were getting divorced I also call my sister, she doesnt have the same birth mum or dad as me and we never adopted her as she had her family there but she has always been known to me as a sister (she is the deaf one I posted about). My elder sister (birth sister) struggles that I call my deaf sister my sister as she thinks that it takes away the loyalness of being a sister if you call people it who arnt but in my eyes she spent so much time with us when we were growing up she might have well of been adopted.
My younger sister (adopted) is very much my proper sister. I am really strict with her as I suppose we are with children or very younger sisters as we know what things mattered when we were young and what affect they have on our lives now.
But even though I tell her off, in teenage terms ground her when I go up to leeds (she loved to be grounded she thinks its cool) and generally pull her back in line, I am the only one who she will quite willingly tell me she loves me. She struggles to show others the same love yet I suppose when she see's them every day its bound to be like that as she see's me at most once a month. She has also told me she's coming to live with me when she's 16!
Gosh I do garble on dont I??? sorry
sooz do you use the adoption uk boards?
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