My parents met in 1988, My Mom was pregnant with my older brother Andrew. She also had my two older brothers James and Michael. My Dad was married to the mother of two of my older siblings, Gary and Nicole. They met through my uncle who was close friends with my dad. Although how they met wasn’t perfect or a fairy tale, they made it work for thirty years and counting.

My Mom was always the main parent, the one who did it all for the most part. Loving caring, and the one who did most of the disciplining. She was a stay home mom for most of my childhood. She always made sure us kids were taken care of along with my Dad. Now looking back I should have appreciated her more. After all I was a kid being a kid. My mom was always there when we needed her so I am grateful for that. As a child my mom was perfect to me.

My Dad was always the push over. If we wanted something us girls could always win over my dad, the boys not so much. He was always harder on the boys than us girls.My Dad has always been a hard worker, he was the sole provider for years. He made sure us kids had what we needed which was hard with eleven children. When I think about my Dad I think about things he did when we were all kids. Like taking us to church, to the springs. playing pranks on us. He has sense of humor that’s for sure. Through the years hasn’t much changed about him, he’s still preaching, joking, and working.

Growing up as child you don’t realize all the things your parents do for you. Even though we didn’t have the perfect childhood, I can remember when I was probably about twelve years old and my parents had got into a fight, my dad hit my mom granted I was at school when this took place. When I got home and found out my dad wasn’t there and what had happened I was so upset with my dad. As a child I was lost without both of them and I didn’t know how to express my feelings I was disappointed with my Dad more than anything. Well they stayed separated for nine days so after all that everything was normal again. We didnt have alot growing up with eleven children and only one parent working most of our childhood. My Mom did work after my youngest brother, Nicholas went to school and it made things easier for my parents. It also made it easier for us older kids to skip school hang out with our friends and do things we shouldn’t been doing because our parents were at work and tired when they got home they never knew half of what we were doing or where we were at. Well the perfect parents don’t exist. Being a great parent is all you can do and you do that the best way you know how to.

All of us kids were different. Some did good in school some didn’t go to school half the time. Only one of us graduated from high school that would be James. Alissa dropped out in the twelfth grade. The rest of us dropped out in ninth grade, however michael and gary both got their g.e.d michael actually went to college for one year but none of has any real accomplishments. Our families are our accomplishments.

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz

In this blog I plan on writing about my childhood and things i can remember about it. From my early childhood to now,all my family members well the ones I know of and the things I love about having a huge family,and the things I don’t love about having a huge family. To raising my own family,being a mother, a wife, and a daughter and a sister. To my siblings families and things about them as well.

So first i have a HUGE family seven brothers and three sisters eleven children all together. Our family has always been super close. My parents did a good job with making sure we all stuck together for that part. In the first few blogs ill talk about each of my siblings how I feel about them and how close we are ages accomplishments and everything I can really tell about them.

I’ll start about my brothers all seven of them. So you’ll have to stay with me here. I’ll go oldest to youngest as will my blogs. So we have James, Gary, Michael, Andrew, Cody, Christopher and Nicholas. These names you’ll have to keep up with cause I’ll talk about all of them in my future blogs to come. I feel like you,ll the blogs about them so be on the look at for them in the next couple days

So now for my sisters.. The same I’ll go oldest to youngest excluding myself you’ll get to know plenty about me. The oldest sister will be Nicole, then Alissa and then Lacey. There is enough drama in the little slot for about five families. This is gonna be the juicy blogs..

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton