How many siblings do you have?

[tikibirds]

One sister who is 8 years younger then me.

[Tiggums6]

I'm my Mum's only but the eldest of dad's four girls.

[Ringlets]

I'm an only child ...and on my mothers side I am an only grandchild as well
but my gran was one of 7  (the other 6 were half bro and sis from her mom and her first hubby who died in WW1,her mom remarried later and had Nan when she was in her 40's I believe)  , my mom is one of 3, my dad one of 7 and my hubby one of 7
Dad wanted more kids but Mom decided that one was enough after she had me ...hmmmm not sure how to take that   I'm the last in the line when it comes to mom's family.  I think she did try for kids  before being able to have me  though

[Sarah-Bee]

Just one unless you count the one in heaven that I never met because he or she died before he or she was born.

I am an only child but my other siblings are in heaven too. My mom tried that's all I could say, it just wasn't in the cards for her. :/

Same. My parents tried for a long time to have me and prior to that my mum had a miscarriage when she didn't even know she was pregnant (though she wanted to be pregnant) so it seems quite the feat that they managed to make me at all. My mum has had various readings and such with mediums and they always say she has two children, an older boy and a younger girl. I'll admit that I feel like I should have a brother. My mum said if she had a boy he would have been called Daniel... so yeah, I've been known to get a bit upset about the brother I should have had. It's hard to explain but I feel some sort of connection that makes it real. I don't know if that makes sense... I even have a picture of him in my mind (the men in our family look a lot alike so that's pretty easy). I haven't really told anyone about that other than my husband and close friends... it just sort of came out just now

[Sukeile]

I think that is it a beatiful thing to count those siblings as well.


When I was very little, and my older siblings were in school I had an imaginary friend whom I always played with, I called her "air fairy"
I played with her for years and my parents did not really mind because, as I said before I was always kind of strange and did not have many friends besides my siblings.

One day my mother did ask me about Air Fairy, who was she exactly?

I told her she was a year older than me and that I knrw her all my life and since before I was born.
She asked how I could have known her before I was born and I just casually said " Oh, we met in the cave of life. She is your daughter too and she wanted to come here but she had to stay so now she just visits us in the air, like a fairy!" And then happily continued playing.

Not until years after when I was much older did my mother tell me about her misscarrige and how impactful that silly conversation had been for her.

I can not say I get visits from Air Fairy anymore, but I remember the childhood games quite clearly.

Who knows? I say if they count in our hearts that is what matters.

[moomargh]

Awww those were very sweet and yet saddening stories. Almost had me in tears here oops... Awwww. Just beautiful 

[BrightLight]

I have one half-sister who is 16 years older than me.

[Divinisity]

So many of you have such interesting stories! I'm the eldest of two. My sister is 20 months younger than me, but I can't say that we are close at all.

[Gloomygirl777]

I think that is it a beatiful thing to count those siblings as well.


When I was very little, and my older siblings were in school I had an imaginary friend whom I always played with, I called her "air fairy"
I played with her for years and my parents did not really mind because, as I said before I was always kind of strange and did not have many friends besides my siblings.

One day my mother did ask me about Air Fairy, who was she exactly?

I told her she was a year older than me and that I knrw her all my life and since before I was born.
She asked how I could have known her before I was born and I just casually said " Oh, we met in the cave of life. She is your daughter too and she wanted to come here but she had to stay so now she just visits us in the air, like a fairy!" And then happily continued playing.

Not until years after when I was much older did my mother tell me about her misscarrige and how impactful that silly conversation had been for her.

I can not say I get visits from Air Fairy anymore, but I remember the childhood games quite clearly.

Who knows? I say if they count in our hearts that is what matters.

That is definitely an interesting story! I had a miscarriage a year or two before I had my daughter. And several times I remember having dreams about having 2 little girls...one with blonde hair and one with darker hair. My daughter has dark blonde hair. It makes me wonder.........

[icecreamgirl]

I have 2 younger half brothers (same Dad) we are quite close and I am Mum's only one so I think I kind of have the best of both worlds, I have siblings and I get my mum all to myself! I also have 4 girl cousins that I grew up that are like sisters to me - I think I'm very lucky 

[OctoberFlash]

I'm an only child, unless you wanna count my dog as a sibling

My mother was one of four, though, and my father was one of three.

[starrypawz]

Two older brothers,
Fairly noticeable age gap between us I was born in 92, and they were born in 83 and 80 respectively   

My mum though was one of six and my dad is one of three

[Nilenna]

I've got a big sister, a big brother, then there's me, and a younger sister. 

[BethMcBeth]

I have two younger siblings we were not very close growing up. I am closer now to one but the other not so much. Guess that's life.

[daffodil101]

I have two younger sisters.  I'm not hugely close to them but I hope we will be one day  

Beautiful stories about brothers and sisters you never got to meet who are in heaven.  A few friends of mine have had miscarriages and even though some people seem to think it's no big deal, to them (and me) it is and it's beautiful to think they might get to meet their lost family members in heaven someday.