My Family

First off, I’m very glad that I have the family that I have. For many reasons I would not trade my family for anything.Sure we have our problems but what family does not? To be honest things have changed greatly since the passing of my grandparents but life is always going to be full of changes and nothing can stop those changes from coming because there is a saying that change is inevitable. These have affected me in several ways from good to not so good. I mean I miss my grandparents terribly because they lived a hop, jump, and a skip away form my house. But it also makes you grow learning that things are not always going to be easy.

I can’t say that any family has anything unique aside from the people inside the family. That said the personalities of the people in the family are also unique but so is every person’s. So as I said its hard to pick something unique to my family. I know that the prompt doesn’t mean for me to go on a rant like this.

Some of the things I know I will continue on with my family in the future is the fact that we have a faith. I will also continue to spend time with my family such as my cousins and sister hopefully. But most of all I hope that we all stay connected even when we get old and stuff. I hope my kids actually make friends than I did as a child.

Now when comes to individual people in my family they are unique from each other as all people are. A lot of the uniqueness comes from the fact that my grandparents had ten kids on my mom side. With that said I don’t always get to see them since they live all over the country. Some of my family like it in the warmer areas like most people but the fact that all their jobs are pretty different from each other.

One of my favorite things is when the family gathers for a holiday or we are able to go visit our relatives for the holidays. The reason for this is because it is not often that we are able to see them outside of the summer when we have a lot of time off. It is nice to be able to see them and spend time with them.

If I had to choose one thing. It would be that I could spend more time with my family outside of the holidays because it’s hard not being able to talk with them and see them because they are in a different part of the country. I frankly just wish that it was easy and cheap to be able to go seem them and not such a hassle.

So basically that’s really all I got for things that make my family unique which is not much but I guess I talked more about how change affects life and other stuff like that. But most of all it has made me think about how life is not all beauty and sunshine but life isn’t all about happiness nor sorrow but like the song “Lost in thoughts all alone” say life will get better and it always does if you work to make it better.

Family photo by: Diane Burns