August 1, 2004

• It's now that time for my weekly blog of "Family Member of the Week"

  
  

  This week I decided to devote me blog to my little brother Jason.  Jason was born 04 January, 1983 in Johnstown PA, yes we are 15 months apart.  During childhood we played numerous practical jokes on each other and our parents.  More so with our mother, which our father encouraged.  Jason is a really cool person.  He loves people as if he has never had his heart broken, holds no grudges, and treats everyone like he wishes to be treated.  He's a gentle soul, but in no way is he a sissy.  Jason's interests include fishing, hunting, tearing things apart and putting them back together again, and just having fun with the people around him.  He's the type of person that will give anyone the shirt off his back and never ask for a favor in return. 

  
  

  My fondest memory of Jason is Christmas day of 1988.  We kissed our mother goodbye for work and were told we could eat the candy canes off the tree while we waited for our father to return home from work.  We come from a two parent working family and most holidays were like this one.  Jason and I watched our mother pull out of the driveway and we raced each other to the couch.  He always beat me in races.  We then sat very quietly and watched our tree change colors with the motion lights dad put on it every year.  Jason then turned to me and told me he was getting a candy cane.  I always had to mess with my brother so I told him to be careful or he would get electrocuted since the tree was on.  He stopped dead in his tracks.  "What do you mean I'll get lecturecuted?", he asked me concerned.  I told him simply he would light up like the tree if he touched it.  This scared him and he walked back forlornly to the couch.  We stared at the tree until our father came in from the bitter cold with a big smile on his face and Merry Christmas rang through his shattering teeth.  We jumped off the couch and greeted him and then Jason looked at him quizzing.  "Dad, mom said we could eat the candy canes off the tree, but Jen and I are scared that we're going to be lecturecuted."  Dad burst out in a big ball of laughter and went to take three candy canes off the tree, except when he went for the last one he pretended to get a shock and scared Jason half to death.  Poor Jason, took so much abuse from my dad and me it's a wonder he still loves us or isn't messed up.

  
  

  Jason is the greatest little brother I could ever ask for.  He stuck up for me like a big brother and no one ever messed with him or I would step in.  We were always great friends and being related even made it more wonderful.  Sure we had our quarrels, but blood is thicker than water.  Right now Jason is a airborne combat engineer, and we talk occassionally.  Jason my little brother, family member of the week.

  
  

  

  
  

                                             Infant Jason

  
  

  

  
  

                           My favorite pic of Jason and me

  
  

  

  
  

                       Jason today

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