Essay On My Family

My family is really small compared to most people families that I know. I only have 2 older siblings, both girls and my parents who has been married for 27 years. Now that we are all older my household only consists of My parents, my middle sister and myself. My extended family is also small. My mother parents passed away when she was 17 so she 's been taking care of her siblings since the tragic loss. Sadly, the only extended family I really have are my mom siblings, the ones that are still alive. So that is my 2 aunts and 2 uncles, and their children which are my cousins. The adults in my home are the ones who are in charge, they take care of everything meaning the bills and making sure food is in the house. They handle everything …show more content…
Therefore, my mother is the one in control of everything and she plays the leadership role over top of everyone in the family. Now on my dad side we don 't see or know them well either but my grandmother does play a small part in our lives. I don 't know much about her siblings to speak on the elderly or who really plays the leadership part either. Now that I don 't have elderly figures in my life I really admire three people in my family but I 'm only going to speak on one and that is my mother. I admire my mother because despite all she 's been through my mother has never let anything stop her. In my eyes my mother is the strongest black women I have ever met and she motivates me to be successful and a strong black woman …show more content…
Every birthday well just in my household at least, no matter how old we are turning we make sure everyone gets a birthday cake. We always come to my parent’s house and every birthday we all gather around and sing “Happy Birthday” and let the person blow out their candles. Now for holiday’s we always have Christmas at my parent’s house and actually last year we finally started a secret Santa so nobody would feel left on Christmas day. Everyone in my family are Christians so every Christmas morning we make breakfast, play gospel music then eventually we all finally open up our gifts. Every thanksgiving and Christmas dinner is at my parent’s house, it has been like that every year and it has never changed. All of those traditions were started by my grandmother I believe and once she passed my mother kept it going and now that I am older I will make sure I keep it going just in case others in my family try to change