Personal Narrative: My Road Trip To Arizona

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Road-trip: My Story At a hospital outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the first baby of 2 children was born. This occurred on September 26, 2002, in a state with barely 500,017 people and miles of farming, pastures, and dirt eating up the land. As the first, I was their pride and joy while we lived in small,log cabin and then on a horse ranch. My parents expected the most from me since I was their only child and celebrated my growth through the years. Their family rejoiced at the birth of me and my future as a part of their family, the first grandchild to my parents’ parents. We lived on a horse ranch in Wyoming at the time my dad got offered a job. This job entailed us moving to Arizona so he could work at ASU as a professor. My mother would have to find a new job, along with our family finding a new home. As a family, we took the journey to Arizona to build our new life as did the pioneers to settle in the West. My parents had moved before but didn’t know that this would become our new home to continuing growing our family. Back then, I only was 4 with my parents as my sole company. After a few months, an addition was made to our family in the form of my brother, who had a heart of gold under his tough skin. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 26, 2005. Our family dynamic had changed with his new presence in our lives. I got less attention and personal love, sharing my parents with my new sibling. My brother, Kaycee Yarger, became my younger brother and I had to become a role model as the older sibling to guide him through aspects of his newly-found life. Going forward from 2005 to 2010, a life- changing occurrence shifted the way I proceeded through my daily life. Our dad sat us down in chairs and revealed the situation we faced, asking us for our emotional response. My parents told me and my brother that they were moving into separate houses, but the word “divorce” was never mentioned in their explanation, like how “war” wasn't depicted during the Cold War. I was only 8 and my brother was 5 when they moved down the street from each other. We had to start lugging our stuff to the other house and only saw our parents half the time. The circumstances were burdensome for my parents, deciding between the kid’s wellbeing and their own happiness, and my brother and I, learning to live with separated parents and divided households. They were still friendly to each other, but even a child can tell that things weren’t going to be the same as before when our family lived in a ranch house we all use to share. In the midst of a pending divorce, my brother was diagnosed with an incurable disease that tested our family as we all learned together to change our lifestyle. On October 13 of 2010, we went to the hospital to find out he had Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the patient’s pancreas stops producing insulin we all come to discover. We had to go to the pharmacy to get test strips, lancets, blood sugar meters, and shots to control and manage his blood sugar. Diabetes affected our families every decision on food, activities, school, and how we viewed common normalities while we came to bind together to conquer this …show more content…
Abrie and Mckyle, twin siblings, were going to become the new additional members of my family. April 17, 2015 is the day our family was officially joined, yet they had lived with my dad and stepmom or in my stepmom’s family for a year or two. My new sister and brother had grown on me, their quirks weeding their way into my heart, with my sister and I sharing a room together. My brother, stepbrother, adopted siblings, and me hung out together sharing attention and love, but creating lifelong memories as a united family. I love my stepbrother, Abrie, Mckyle, step dad, and stepmom with the same passion and deepness as my biological family because they have caring, unique personality qualities. Our family took in two, but came out of the situation with a large, bonded family that shared our happiness with each

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