When Charlotte fractured her leg, she got no sympathy from any of us. If she had BROKEN it, we would have given her lots and lots of pity and attention, but a fracture? That didn’t sound anywhere near as dramatic. It was years before any of us realized that a break and a fracture were the same thing. Sorry, Charlotte. You were right, we were wrong, we are the dirtiest things of all.
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Triple-like. Your girls have the most expressive faces!
Thanks! I have fun trying to match their real expressions with just paper. Chrissy’s “I know I’m pushing your buttons” smirk is hard to capture.
It’s so wonderful done by you still. Great work and please keep all the laughter coming!
Hilarious, as always! Love it! :)
Thanks! I was afraid no one would like this one for some reason. Glad to be proved wrong!
Haha, how can I permanently like all of your posts? I love the effect you got of the writing on the cast. Also, where can I buy the girls’ outfits? I really want that skirt and top combo.
I agree. I’m always liking. There should be 5 or 6 like buttons with varying degrees of ‘likeness’ on each.
I think there should be a like button with every scene window or whatever that word is :-D
I had two older sisters and oh wowie this brings back major memories
I made a cast for that. Took forever to dry considering it was only a 3″x3″ cast! I got the girls’ latest outfits from TJ Maxx… seriously, they had discounted scrap paper, haha!
aw! That is funny and sad at the same time! the plaster message cracked me up
Poor Charlotte always got it the worst from Chrissy.
a fracture when i was younger always sounded worse to me.
Like she broke her leg – sad. aw
She got a fracture – NO! a fracture!! woah.
I absolutely adore your posts! Thank you for being so crazy creative and funny!
You’re welcome! :)
Tough break for sure
We should probably give her chocolates and massages now to make up for it.
Well to be honest, it is just fractured :p
hahaha!
Haha! This is very funny! I was having a bad day, but your post cheered me up! :-)
Aw, I’m glad I could help!
The amount of detail in the first panel is amazing.
Thanks :) I love adding all the little details. It makes me feel less homesick, somehow.
I love the photos and the girls’ shoes… so great.
This cheered me up, thank you :-)
Good!
Charlotte’s rage face is killing me! hahahahahahaha
me too hahahaha
Yeah, I can aaaaallllmost see why Chrissy loved to push our buttons until we all exploded.
My step daughters have these “arguements” constantly….its sooo much funnier in paper cartoon form !
Ha, yes, I agree. It’s much more fun to recreate these old arguments in paper form than it was to live through them the first time.
I look forward to these every week! Love the angry cheeks.
Thanks, Paprika!
Sounds like my family, hahaha!
Haha :) Glad you can relate!
I love everything about this post. My favorite things are the pictures on the writing desk. How cool!
Thanks! :) They are photos of my parents getting married, my grandparents, and my late cousin.
It was broken!! I love this one, of course, it’s about time the world knew the truth! And mom and dad’s wedding pic miniaturized? So awesome.
Sorry, Charlotte. We owe you.
I love Rapunzel appearances. But not as much as I love that Jeremy tribute.
What, no love for the Doogie portrait?
Of course I love the Doogie portrait! But the Punzie fur is so good!
Hmmm, this one sounds suspiciously like that “we were on a break” plotline from Friends.
This is all a big LIE.
I completely missed all the details in the first panel until someone else mentioned them. Some good work there.
Thanks! I love adding details from my parents’ actual house. That portrait of the dog is totally real.
your posts remind me of my childhood craziness
we used to argue over who was really sick in our family!
An important argument. Fakers get no sympathy!
How can such a mean sister be so funny?
I love the portrait of the dog in the first frame.I enlarged it to see the details.
Wonderful!
Ronnie
Thanks, Ronnie! That portrait is totally real. Only now, the portrait also contains my mom’s new dog. I posted a photo of it on my twitter account this morning. You can see it here: https://twitter.com/#!/MiddlestSister/status/172341969585061888/photo/1
“Fractured” — I remember that word tripping me up as a kid. I thought fractured was like a tiny tear, like a hangnail on your bone.
The dog’s ears — the exact same dog in the painting. So great. (Gasp! Was this the “Doogie” that Chrissy kicked?!) Along with the real photos. Loved this.
Yup, that’s Doogie, the world’s lamest dog. The portrait is real and hangs in my parents’ living room today, only with the new addition of the world’s second most lamest dog, Mickey. I posted it on twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/#!/MiddlestSister/status/172341969585061888/photo/1
I’m so glad I looked at your twitter feed because not only do I see how lame your dogs are (just kidding) but I saw how adorable you are! Adorable!
Ha! Thanks, Chrissy had just done my hair that day and it was pretty. It is rarely pretty. :)
LOVE this.
You are amazing, and you make me smile
thank you for that <3
Aw, thank you!
Oh, I can see my know-it-all son saying something like that to my daughter. Hilarious! So many details to look at. I was hoping I would see a post from you today. Thank you!
Siblings always know just how to get under each other’s skin.
Hilarious as always! Isn’t the truth often much funnier than fiction?
:) Seems that way.
Loved it! Your posts really are amazing. I’m so impressed with your ability to convey stories so well using inanimate objects.
My family (parents included) didn’t believe me when I said I thought I broke my wrist. Days later, they agreed to take me to the doctor, who delivered the delightful news that yes, I had broken it. Ah, vindication.
Thanks, Carly! I had an episode like that myself involving an inflamed appendix… :)
This is hilarious! I have to reblog this! I really love your blog!
Thank you, Miss Emma Lou!
Reblogged this on how miss emmanuelle stepped into her groove and commented:
This is the most recent post of my favorite blog!
I love all your posts. You make us laugh and brighten our days!
Thank, Monica :) That is sweet
Haha! Love this!
Thank you!
I just adore your pictures. Have you written a children’s book. With your sly sense of humor, it would make a great book for kids and parents, alike.
Thanks! I would love to write a book, but it turns out that finding an agent and getting published is actually very difficult. Still, I’ll keep trying :)
Better late than never I guess
Haha, hope she thinks so, too!
So much detail in this one, hilarious!
Thanks! It’s so fun for me. I’ve got a majorly detailed one in the works that will take months to complete.
Look forward to it, I’m amazed you get them out as frequently as you do and always hilarious!
woww so goodd :) like this :)
Thank you! :)
Hahahahahahahahahaha! I love your posts! (The inflamed red cheeks! Too perfect!!!)
Thanks Megan!
Reblogged this on Friday is Forever and commented:
The middle child syndrome – I totally get it.
You deserve this and I’d enjoy learning more about you, so, TAG YOU’RE IT!!
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Poor, poor Charlotte – I don’t blame her for having angry cheeks. The detail in the first picture is da bomb.
Thanks, Peg!
Brilliant as usual and make me laugh aloud as usual. I love the details on the table with the keys letters and the shoes underneath. And I love the eyebrows, but I said that before.
Thank you! This will be a fun new background for me, like the kitchen, where the items change constantly.
How did Charlotte break her leg? Also, I had the “disbelief” experience in reverse this past August–I fell down the stairs, and broke my foot (right foot, fifth metatarsal, all the way through, with two other hairline breaks near it that the X-ray technician could see, but I couldn’t), but I didn’t believe it was broken. I thought I’d just sprained my ankle, until two days after the fact, when I woke up in the morning to find my foot swollen to twice its normal size, in a pretty frightening shade of purple.
Oh, she fell off of something slippery at a neighbor kid’s house. That sounds like a serious injury! Poor you! Sound much worse than Charlotte’s fracture.
Well, the good thing was, it wasn’t displaced, and nothing was popping through my skin, so the doctor didn’t have to set my foot, he just wrapped it in bandages. I didn’t get a full cast either, just a crepe bandage (and then, on my own, I put an Ace bandage over that), because my foot was too swollen for a fibreglass cast, so it was plaster or nothing, and I didn’t see myself not being able to shower, put weight on my foot, or do anything at all for six weeks. My room was on the second floor of the uni sharehouse where I was living and working as a mentor to eight other students–so, I chose the “slower healing, more mobility” option, and kept right on mentoring. Seriously, five days later, I was hopping around the kitchen on one foot, baking birthday cupcakes for two of my housemates.
Those eyebrows, they’re so expressive. You do brilliant work, tms. By the way, how is life without cheese?
Thanks! Life without cheese is hard. I bought Irish Cheddar to go along with last night’s dinner for my family and I ate some. I knew it was wrong, but it was Irish Cheddar. That’s special. It only comes around once a year… As of this morning, I’m back on track though. It’s 8:13 and I’ve had no cheese in my coffee. This is easy.
I had cheese in mine, so you’re good.
You guys are so relentless! I had forgotten all about that, how do you remember all these things. Nice tribute to Jeremy:)
The note on the cast is so funny! Only a sibling could come up with something this good!
Thank you.
OMG, I had an English teacher in grade twelve. I was in OAC 1 English, winter semester 2003, at Barrie Central Collegiate, and my teacher’s name was Ms. Losell. I’d never heard of anyone else doing that before or since, until now.
Another fantastic post!
Thanks, this is a great post!
Loved it! When I fractured my arm, my line was “See? I’t’s not broken! Just fractured!” My family still hasn’t let me live that one down.
Aaaahhh that’s amazing. Was she really clever enough to write that on a cast? Because it’s so brilliant it hurts.
I was paged at the theatre to hear that my son had fractured his leg. I was so relieved because I thought that meant it wasn’t broken. Oops! Love your paper craft!
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