Let's admit it all, we do have favorite sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews and also Aunts and Uncles to complete the group mix. I said that because I myself have a favorite niece because for one thing she is the first addition to my family and secondly she was very cute and resembles the face of her father but in the form of her mother although now she was lacking in height which we do not know where she inherited from for the reason that she is quite short in stature so she is shorter than the average height of women here in my country.
Anyway, when that niece of mine was born, she stayed here in the house as my parents were the ones that took care of her while her parents work. It is because they live beside our house and my parents were the convenient ones to act as her nannies. So of course we get to spend a lot of time with that niece of mine which I am happy about because she is just smart and does the darnedest things that babies and little toddlers does.
When she was just a baby I am still able to carry her and sometimes throw her in the air while still holding her because of course I might drop her and she liked it. I basically spent lots of quality time playing with that baby-toddler niece of mine compared to my other nieces and nephews. So when her brother was born I am already weak enough not to be able to carry him plus the fact that my first Nephew is heavier compared to my niece when she was just a baby.
Then after my brother sold his house to my sister, they went to live in another town and by that time my niece and nephew were already more than six years old, so I was just seeing them from time to time like when my brother visits my parents and in special occasions. My other nieces also went to live in their grandmother's house in my sister's husband side of the family because they have cousins that they can play with over there as my sister's sister in law lives there too with her mother. That is why they grew up away from me and we weren't that close now.
It's the same with my other brother's sons, we all grew up not spending quality time with me and that quite frustrated me for the reason that it was not planned because the plan was to make me included at least within their special moments in life but because I got pinned down inside the four walls of my room in the confines of my house due to my handicap, there is a level of estrangement between me and my younglings now which I regret that happened.
Nothing that I feel now but to miss those moments where I was able to enjoy the company of my favorite niece because it was one of the moments that even though I have no child of my own, because of course I am not qualified to have a family of my own, at least I am able to experience having a niece that gave me some happy times because what I expect her to be, a smart, happy, so very cute, and beautiful happened and that is one precious thing that I cherished in my life.