Personal Essay: My Mother's Side Of My Family

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I do not know much about my family, nor do I talk to most of my family simply for the fact that they live far away and no one has time and because we are not close. My family 's name involves with the Kims and Wicketts. They are both German names. The Wickett name is German, Polish, Swedish, and Irish. The Kim name I believe is fully German. I do in fact know more about the Wicketts than I do Kims. My mom 's side of the family is the Wickett family. I don 't know much about family on this side because we don 't talk to anyone on my mom 's side. I know that both of her grandparents, my greatgrandparents, are dead. I also know that we are related to the Meyers because my grandma 's maiden name was Meyer (I think that is pretty interesting …show more content…
My dad 's dad, Joseph, his wife had died and got married to my grandma Myra. Joseph, who I guess would be my grandpa had two girls and two boys before he married my grandma. After he married my gram, they had my dad. So, because of my dad having stepbrothers and sisters, or however that works, I am related to people that I 'm not actually related to. For example the Sorg family, including Maddie Sorg. We are cousins but we aren 't because she is related to my uncle Joe somehow. All of my family is very confusing and I don 't quite understand all of this even though we talk about my family. Most of my family on my dad 's side live down south in places such as Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. There 's a good possibility that there are more in other places but when we do talk to my dad 's side of the family we talk to those in the states above. I believe everyone on my dad 's side is …show more content…
We see my grandparents and my cousins and aunt and uncle more often than not. My grandparents are usually never home because they always go on vacation after Christmas and then come home for Easter and leave at the end of the school year. My cousin, Logan, is never home anymore mostly because he in college for sports medicine but he is also in the National Guard. Now that his basic training is finished we might be able to see him more, but I do not think so. He was asked to do this really amazing thing, which at the time we were not allowed to talk about for security reasons, but the event is long over so I am able to talk about his opportunity now. What he got to do was be the Pope 's guard when the Pope was in Pennsylvania. I just think that is pretty cool. My other cousin Hunter, is interesting because he only talks to me, some times he will talk to our grandparents but most of time it is just me just me. I could go on and on about stories of my mom 's side because we do so much together. Every Christmas Eve, on the Wickett side, we all used to go to my grandparents 's camp/ home. We always watch Lampoon 's Christmas Vacation every year before opening presents. About two years ago my grandparents sold their camp and moved down into my aunt and uncle 's yard. Our last Christmas in the camp was pretty sad for all of us because of all the memories we made there growing up. (Flashback moment): When they still had the camp all of us kids

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