the lull

its after christmas and everything has gone back to normal, sort of.
every year after the gastly holiday i refuse to clean my room for a while and just have my presents sitting around the room paper everywhere tags and wrappers thrown askew. i've done it for the past four years, why quit now?
my sister is getting her hair cut off as i type this, she is donating her luscious locks to a place that makes wigs for children going through chemotherapy. i know its a great cause and i'm happy that at her age she is willing to cut all of her hair of for charity, but i can't help but be angry at the fact that my mom puts ideas like these into her head. Whether good or bad, she is still trying to turn my sister into a little her. She more than likely did it to me when i was a kid but back then she was only 20 and much more free spirited, and now she's turned into this hidden angst super mom when no one has asked her to be.
I woke up to her screaming at my sister this morning, keep in mind she is 4 and my baby brother is 18 months old. While she was in the shower she asked her to watch him and during that time he fell over and bumped his head on something. Its really not a big deal considering his head is huge and he is always bumping it into things, but my sister, who is 4 years old, didn't know what to do. So, while he is crying at the door of the bathroom my mom is screaming at my sister to do something about it. Long story short, i came out of my room to calm to beast down, which is impossible, so i had a talk with my sister.
I asked her what happened why had mom been screaming all morning and she told me the story of how he bumped his head and she didn't know what to do. When i asked her why she didn't console him she spoke these words with her four year old lips and her 15 year old mind, "I am nobody's mother."