Family: Natassja

Kayleigh was not even 1 when Natassja was born. Their relationship was on the whole quite good for sisters who are close in age. I think the best way to describe it is to define their personalities and how different they were. As we all know, Kayleigh was the sporty outgoing one - who loved climbing on things, running and doing backflips. Natassja, on the other hand is more reserved and arty. The funny thing is, the one thing we praised the other for being, they wanted to be better at. In her end of Year 6 'About me', Natassja wrote that she wanted to be more flexiable, where as Kayleigh had written that she wanted to be able to draw better.

Kayleigh and Natassja got on quite well when they weren't fighting. As previously mentioned, Natassja was happy to let Kayleigh hang around with her friends when no-one wanted to talk to her. They talked for hours at night before going to sleep (as they shared a room) about school and boys. They teased each other and helped each other. Natassja found it good this year at High School as Kayleigh had already done most of the assignments she got, so all she had to do was ask Kayleigh how to complete them.

Kayleigh and Natassja did fight - and loudly. Kayleigh would get irritated at Natassja for not helping clean their room because she was busy drawing. Natassja would get angry at Kayleigh for taking her things and not giving them back. They would yell at each other, Kayleigh would hit Natassja, Natassja would scream back and then Terence and I would have to intervene. They then spent the next hour or so sniping at each other.

But they did everything together - Kayleigh was the oldest child, but Natassja tried to help out as she could. They were very different in personalities but they helped each other and looked out for each other. They worked together one recess to clean Mr Macks' classroom at school - I don't know why - but I think that shows the co-operation that they had together - even though they 'hated' each other some days, they always were someone they could count on when they needed it.

Kayleigh - Drawn by Natassja