Personal Essay: Growing Up In My Life

Growing up: Growing up both of my parents worked since we lived a couple houses down from my grandmother. Somehow between my dad’s, mom’s and my grandmother’s work schedule there was always someone home watching my older sister and I. My father was a police officer of Milpitas Police Department. Milpitas is in Silicone Valley for those who are familiar with the San Francisco Bay Area. My mother did part time teaching and caregiving for children with mental disabilities. My older sister and I are four years a part. Eventually once my dad got promoted, my mom stayed at home to raise us, although she did do tutoring once in a while on the side from our home. My grandmother was single because my grandfather had passed away before I was born. …show more content…
I had buckets and buckets of Legos. I loved being able to build and create anything that I wanted. Legos were a big part of my child hood and if I wasn’t playing with Jonny and Alex, I was playing with my Legos. I had other toys I played with like hot wheel cars or those little plastic green army men, however it was only once in a while. I am kind of a control freak as an adult so I am wondering if I enjoyed Legos because they allowed my to be in full control. For example, I would always build what the directions would tell me to build when I received a new box of Legos, but I would usually taken it a part or modify it my way shortly after. I think as a child it was great to create the world I wanted or fantasized about with my …show more content…
All I do know is that Jonny and Alex were a huge part of my childhood. We were always hanging out every weekend unless we were in trouble or had family events. When we could not hangout, we had radios and headsets that we would talk to each other on. We lived so close to each other that most of the cheap radios had enough juice to reach the other. Jonny, Alex and I did have other friends from school but for some reason we did not seem to venture out unless it was a different kid’s birthday party from school. We were not the only children in our neighborhood. Sometimes we would play basketball or have epic water gun fights with the other kids in the neighborhood, however it was usually just the three of us. I think part of the reason was that Suzie had to work weekends often and that meant Jonny and Alex would be next door at Mrs. White’s for the day. I remember the times when Mrs. White would not allow them to come outside and play with me. I would be confused and angry. I think it was around fifth or sixth grade when the epic weekends with Jonny and Alex faded away. I know it had to do with us maturing and having different interest. Another contributing factor was they got a video game console before I did so often when I would call to see if they wanted to hangout, they were busy playing video games. I remember how crushed and how jealous I was that I didn’t have a video game