Support Letter For My Brother

My name is JSB. I am "brother's" younger sister. I have known my brother, , since 1977, the year I was born. Wand I have always had a strong relationship; be it arguing like two siblings do or even talking and confiding in each other as adult friends. My brother is six years older then myself and has always been one of the few people I not only look up to, but view as a stable person in today’s out of whack world. We have kept in contact while he was in the Navy and I was in high school and college. We have kept in contact while he was in the Marines. W is not only supportive of myself, but of my entire family. He is not afraid to tell you what he thinks even if you disagree with it. You may not like hearing his advice or opinions but they are always worth taking a second look over.

When I married at the age of 21 with a new baby and recently finding out I was pregnant again, my brother was there; right along with our sister and parents. My brother is one of the few people I have no questions about leaving my children with. Even when they were newborns! He knew how to change a diaper, calm a child down, and realized that even sometimes they needed to just cry it out. This actually says a lot about my brother because I will NOT leave my children alone for any amount of time with my in-laws even though they are the grandparents to my children. I trust Wwith my 8 year old daughter and my 7 year old son when ever he is home. He allows my husband and I some valuable free time by cooking us supper, playing with the kids, helping us clean up when we am running errands and by just taking his niece and nephew down to the grandparents (our parents) house to just visit. One of the times my brother, W, was home on leave stands out to not only myself but our entire extended family that lives in the area is of the time my husband and W were at our house hanging out like brother-in-laws do and I was out grocery shopping. On my way home, I received a call from my brother telling me to turn around and meet my husband at the After Hours Clinic because while my husband and brother were rounding up the toys to put away, my children decided to stick beads up their noses. My husband didn’t even think twice about leaving our then 4 year old daughter home with my brother while he brought our 3 year old son up to have the bead taken out of his nose!

When my husband and I returned from a trip to the After Hours Clinic and ER Room for a bead removal from the nose, my house was completely cleaned up, all my animals feed and watered, my daughter bathed, feed, dressed for bed and was having a grand time with her Uncle playing with her dolls and watching a Disney Princess movie!

My brother, W, is very loyal to his family, even after finding out that his wife didn’t appreciate the way he was family orientated or that we were family orientated and told W to take care of his wife and children. That we will ALWAYS be here for his family and blood is thicker than water. My husband, children and I even drove down to visit W and his family when we all lived in Texas at the same time and was again impressed with the responsibility, dedication, love and loyalty he had towards his own family. W was going to Military School full time, partaking in his round of duty for the military, coming home and cleaning up, taking care of, and playing with his kids. Even on the days he was dead tired and had the children thrust at him so his wife could have down time. I have heard many times from my brother’s mouth and his wife’s mouth that W was the more patient of the two when dealing with my nephew W H (nephew) and that W H is a daddy’s boy. Mrs. W also bragged to me over the phone many times that her older son, was very much a daddy’s boy also and got very upset that my brother was gone during the day: when Mrs. W would consent to being on the phone with me for more then 5 minutes and not complaining of one of her two older children constantly being sick and my brother hounding her to take them to the doctor because she never would.

I miss my nephew very much and could not understand why Mrs. W, who claims to be very family orientated, constantly got upset over any of our family both immediate and extended in the area tried to be friendly or helpful. If the CA Family Court System would consent to give my brother full custody or even joint custody with primary care of my nephewW H and he moved back to the home area of Nebraska with my nephew, W would have full family support of not only our parents, our sister, and myself but of some of our extended family members. W H would be surrounded by not only the love and protection of his very devoted father but of his parental family. W would also be willing to let Mrs. W's family see W H as long as they could prove that they would not try overriding his parenting skills; simply because W himself is very family orientated.

Even during this very difficult time that my brother is going through, he has been a source of support for me over the phone when I am nagging about my own husband being on the road to support our family. W constantly reminds me that my husband loves me, comes off of the road and helps to take care of the kids and the house. That I also can easily go visit our parents and our sister to get out of the house and to cut not only my husband some slack but myself.

Lovingly and Sincerely Submitted

Me, His Sister