Personal Narrative: Sonya And Mary Schigur

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Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 10:48 a.m. This is when a miracle happened. It was a cold January night when Sonya and Mary rushed to the hospital. These two were very happy on this special day. Josie came to the world on this day, her proud parents are Sonya and Mary Schigur. Josie is now fourteen years old. Josie also has a sister, her name is Samantha and she is twenty six years old. When Josie was a toddler she had done many wonderful, amazing, and fun things.When she was one year old, her parents witnessed josie walk for the first time. Josie loved to go fishing with her dad at a young age, him and her would catch many many fish. Whenever they got home her dad would clean up the fish and cut out the meats, he would give the rest of the fish to their cats. You would think little Josie would be tired from fishing all day, but actually she was full of energy, her parents couldn’t get her to fall asleep. Josie attended school at Mrs. Debbie’s Preschool at the age of five, her favorite activity there was making crafts. When Josie was three years old, her Aunt Patty was wearing a clown costume for Josie’s birthday. Josie saw the clown and got really scared and she eventually found her dad and ran to him. …show more content…
Her first year at school as a kindergartener zoomed by fast. As soon as first grade cme, Josie and her family would then move to Texas. While being in Texas, Josie missed her friends that she had to leave back behind, but since she would be in Texas now, she could spend more time with her grandma more frequently. When Josie and her family got to Texas her grandma surprised Josie with three incredibly cute rabbits, two of the rabbits names were buddy and the last one was smokee. Now that Josie was in Texas, her and her dad first thought of deer spotting, sometimes they would even travel to Illinois as well. Whenever they went coon or rabbit hunting, they would bring their dog

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