Day 11

Your Family. (I’ll stick to my immediate family)

So this is something I can write about for days, and I have. However, for the sake of privacy and respect for my family I will keep it short and somewhat vague.

Let me start off by saying I love every single member of my family. They each have some characteristic that I admire. My father is care-free and a people pleaser. My mother is a hard-worker and multi-tasker. I could never do all the things she does especially with her work schedule. My brother is positive and realistic, he has a goal and he sticks to it until it’s accomplished, but always with a level head. My grandmother thinks outside the box, is independent and an innovator. Yet, their faults are too large and too overwhelming for me. There’s plenty of baggage that each member carries and sometimes it causes the rest of us to stumble. I can honestly say that up to this day I don’t necessarily see them as one unit, the word family doesn’t seem to fit us well. There have been about 2 or 3 times that I remember, that they put aside their differences and got things done. (Both were emergencies involving my grandmother)

Aside from those times they seem to have it out for each other. I don’t think I will completely appreciate them until I have a family of my own and I’m able to speak to each of them as an adult. (I’ll still be a kid to them for a really long time, if not forever) For now I’ll thank them for the support they have given me and forgive them for the times they’ve held me back.

I’m starting to see that they are people too, not a perfect role model.

We aren’t the Brady Bunch and I’m getting used to that.