Let's get physical!!

First things first. I read my blog entry on my phone and I was super bummed that the pictures, that I spent so much time strategically placing, were NOT in the same place on the phone, so I won't be doing that again. Boohoo.

Anyways, back to the Korea stuff. My initial thought in my initial post (which probably means it's the most important to me) was regarding physical attributes. My whole life, I've been a bit obsessed with twins. In my younger days, it was Brad and Scott K.,  Heather and Holly D., Kate and Christy J., and then a special pair of my own :) Then it was so many in my twins group (Emmie and Kenzie), and at NCS, Rachel and Erika, Zane and Garrett.... There's just something about ID twins, right? Anyone remember that National Geographic on Twins? Then...Danielle's Ernst's adoption/twin story (AMAZING) and the Twinsters story---wow that would just be my ultimate dream come true!!

As I got older and then had the girls, I realized that my obsession probably came from the fact that I didn't look like anyone (haha, these lightbulb moments do come to me a bit late).  But not looking like anyone else (other than all Asians in general 😒---because that's how it was in my small town) makes for a bit of incompleteness I suppose.

Oh, time out for a funny story. A while after the girls were born, my mom and I were talking about the girls and how cool twins were, and we were talking about how they were assigned colors (pink and purple) from before birth. I was saying how it was just like me and my sister and lamenting the fact that we always got the same thing for our bday and had to wait to open presents together. And then I was like WHOA...that's JUST LIKE US---I'm a twin!! HAHAHA...again with the "phrase that pays"...my sister and I spent so much saying we were "twins by adoption" that I hadn't actually thought about the word "twins" in that phrase.

                                                  EXAMPLE CONVERSATION

Do you have brothers and sisters?

Yes, 2 brothers and a sister.

Are they your REAL siblings?

My brothers are my parent's biological kids, and my sister and I are both adopted.

Are you REAL sisters?

We are not from the same biological parents. I was adopted when I was 6 months old, and she was adopted when she was 5. She couldn't speak english yet when I started KG, so she's a year behind in school but we're the same age and we have the same bday.

How?

They knew from her bones/body that she was born between this and that date, so we have the same birthday.

Do you know HOW many times I've told this story? Do you know how silly it is for people to ask if they're my REAL siblings. I do get it. I understand what they mean.  (And I know there are people who feel I should not be so irritated by certain questions like theses, my all time (least) favorite being "where are you from?") I know, I know, they don't mean Lancaster, PA but I do answer that more and more as I get older. (Twin moms get asked equally annoying questions. But I suppose anytime there's something "different" about you, questions come up but after the millionth time, even if well-intentioned (perhaps), it still gets annoying. But where was I? Oh yes, twins. So, I have twins, my sister and I were kinda twins, I think twins are cool.


Physical Attributes: I want to know what my biological mom looks like. I want to know if my biological dad was Korean. WAIT! What if my biological MOM isn't Korean. HAHA, I've never even thought of that. You're probably wondering why the heck I would even think this...it's about the
HAIR. I do NOT have beautiful, sleek, black, straight hair. It's dark brown, it's coarse, even curly-ish in spots, and super duper frizzy!! (and it certainly doesn't help that now I'm sprouting tons of even more course and more curly gray hair, smack dab in the front middle section). I'm very interested to go there and examine the population's hair.

I want to know if she could anything she wanted to and stay relatively thin (though this is getting a bit harder to do these days). I want to know if she can lift weights 3 days before a concert and appear super strong! I want to know if it's impossible for her to find a bikini that fits because ...well, you know that song about the yellow polka dot bikini?...the rest of the words very accurately describe what the bikini covers. I want to know if she looked like she swallowed a basketball when she was pregnant. And I want to know if there are siblings who look like me. I've pretty much looked the same since I was born. I imagine if I had biological siblings, we might all look pretty similar.

Well, that's all for today's post. And since I don't know the answer to any of these questions (and I honestly do not think I'll ever know), I'll post some pics of my favorite girls who CAN eat anything they want to, who DO have frizzy hair, and who look JUST like their mama!!