Growing Up For Me Essay

Life sucks. “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” That quote is from H. Jackson Brown Jr. Growing up for me was not the easiest. My mom and I have never been very close. I always had a closer relationship to my dad more than I did with my mom. When I was five, my parents took my two sisters and I to my grandparents house. They told us they would be back, but only my dad came back. From the time I was 5 my mom has missed all my birthday’s and all of our Christmases. She was never a good mom. My older sister and I always had to get up to fix breakfast for everybody. Our mom would pretty much sleep all day and not really do anything with us until our dad got home from work. We never really did anything as a family. One family friend named Missy always bought us clothes and shoes, but our mom would get mad because she thought that she was trying to say that …show more content…
I was in two classes while I was in kindergarten again. I did kindergarten and first grade at the same time so that way I was all caught up. When I was in sixth grade I went to a private Christian school and they said that I did not pass my FCAT from the other school I went to so they made me go back to sixth grade.
When people ask me about my mom I do not like talking about it because everybody thinks that I’m playing around about it. People do not understand what my sisters and I have been through growing up. My older sister is pregnant and now she cannot see her grow up like she missed all of us grow up. People always tell me that some people change, but she has not. I do not see a change in my mom.
It is hard going day by day without your mom by your side. My dad’s fiancé has been like a mom to me and Madison (my younger sister) since they were together for about 12 years. She taught me everything I needed to know growing up. She has been there for me through everything. I can trust her with anything I tell