My Family Essay

One dad, two moms, five sisters, two nieces, and five nephews. Not a common family, but it’s my family. My dad had another wife before my mom and had three daughters- Lisa, Kathy, and Bit. When my dad and his wife got divorced, he met my mom. Together they had Samantha and me. Growing up some of my friends had older siblings around Samantha’s age, but no one had a brother or sister Lisa, Kathy or Bit’s age. When I was born in 1999, Lisa was 23, Kathy was 21, Bit was 18, and Samantha was 5. I…

in his familia. My mother’s earnings weren’t enough since we had just moved from Mexico not too long ago. Every day before going to school my mom would tell us “estudien mija, si estudian les va a ir muy bien en el futuro, no quiero que tengan la misma vida que yo! quiero que tengan una vida mejor que la mía.” Immediately I put two and two together, she meant those words because when she shed tears it meant she was being serious. Walking to the bus stop with my brother because my mom didn’t own…

don’t think I’ve had nearly as many hardships as others. I am very fortunate to have a family. A very dysfunctional family, but I have one. I have a house, food, and two amazing friends. However, if hearing my hardships may help someone then I shall get started. Earlier this year I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety disorder. I knew something was wrong with me since middle school. I tried telling my mom multiple times that I wanted to go see a therapist. However, every time she…

both my parents, but I do think that most of my traits/genes are mostly from my dad. For example, my…

In 2011 when I was 10 my family and I went to Ecuador to adopt my little brother, Danni. At the time I did not know how my immersion into Ecuador and it culture would affect me, now at 18, I see how valuable it was for me. Ecuador is a beautiful country with lush green rainforests and green mountains peaked with snow. My brother’s orphanage was called Orfanato De St Vincenté de Paúl (St Vicente de Paul Orphanage). It was a quaint place with rusty metal playsets outside and small separate…

Tragic events led me to obtain a substantially less amount of information about my father’s family. The story of his parents—William Chapman and Alice Lewis—is a very emotional one, as they started out as the typical young American couple before mental illness changed the foundation of their relationship. After dating for about a year, the two married and began building their life together. Alice worked as a CNA, while William—commonly referred to as Bill—worked as a newspaper delivery boy. The…

My grandfather, Jerry, grew up with peanut butter on everything. Hot dogs, hamburgers, and sandwiches always had a hefty slab of peanut butter. My grandfathers family did this because they were poor and it helped make the food more filling. He continued the tradition and raised his children with peanut butter on everything. It took his kids awhile to start enjoying it but once they did they would always ask for the delicious sweet spread on everything! One afternoon my mother, Renee, was at…

school and not even being able to share the simplest of stories with them. My every attempt to build friendships failed. As a social person, who is invigorated by conversation, this was crushing. I could not even share similar experiences with them due to the financial struggles my immigrant family faced. Going to the movies or special trips were luxuries to me, and I could not afford, since my family’s finances were consumed by my mother’s medical bills. She was so sick that I was constantly…

reasons a family can be unhappy and happy together. Some reasons I have brought together that make my family unhappy are deaths, divorce, when I brought a puppy home, dad smoking, money, and more. Out of all of these, three really stuck out to me. According to Leo Tolstoy, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Money, Divorce, and Death are the three main reasons the stuck out to me on why my family is unhappy. The first topic that started to make my…

James Hamby - English9A - Family Narrative So, my Family went on a trip this summer to the British Virgin Islands. We had to drive to Tulsa Oklahoma which didn’t take that long but the airplanes took forever. When we got to Tulsa, we signed in with the airlines and waited to be put on the plane which was at about 4:00 AM. When we got on the plane it was a small plane that was going to Atlanta Georgia for a place to get onto another airplane. We waited there and ate breakfast because we…