What Would You Do For Your Sister?

My family is pretty close. Whenever someone needs help we are there helping as much as possible. We were raised working together on all sorts of weird projects, thanks to the skating rink. I am grateful that we live close enough that we can help each other. Last week was a perfect example of this.
My sister has been in charge of the school carnival for the last few years. Each year she has asked Devin and I to help out making balloon animals. Last year she got the great idea to make the cotton candy during the day so that way they could just sell it that night. Unfortunately as she was making it in the gym at the school the fumes from the machine set the fire alarm off. (That was really funny, I was there teaching school at the time.) This year as carnival approached I could see my sister's stress level getting higher and higher. I asked what I could do to help. We then thought about the cotton candy. We came up with the idea to bring the machine over to my mom's house and I could make it and my mom could watch Anna.

Well....about 5 hours and 285 bags of cotton candy later I had to stop because it was time for the carnival to start. Can you believe that they sold out in less than an hour!!!! I guess I should have started sooner. It was fun reliving the good old days when my siblings and I would spend Saturday morning at the rink making cotton candy, pop corn, and blowing up balloons for birthday parties. Unlike then when there were four of us working together, I was glad I had my i pod to make the five hours go by quicker. I can now add to my list of weird accomplishments, "Filled up a suburban and outback full of cotton candy." or "Spent the day in a garage making cotton candy."

Oh, the funny things we do to help our siblings. What funny things have you done to help out your family?

A funny side note. As Devin and I were making balloon animals...AGAIN....at the carnival there was a lady who came up wanting our number because she was wondering if we'd come to her school carnival in the fall to make balloon animals there. I felt like saying, "Have you seen how lame our animals are? We just make it up as we go!" She still wanted our number.