My Family Essay

(the fourth thursday of November) my family comes together at my grandmas house to give thanks. Everyone has their own way of celebrating thanksgiving and going to tell you how my family does Thanksgiving. The first thing we do for thanksgiving is get together at my grandma's house in the afternoon. All of my mom's side of the family comes over except for a few family members that live out of town. All of my cousins, aunts, uncles, and my mom’s cousins come to my grandmas house. Sometimes…

Organization of Family Life Many people live on and off with us during that time. There were displaced cousins, friends that my parents meet and needed a place to stay for a little while. My closest relative lived about 15-20 mins away from the family. The relatives didn’t move my family did they most moving mostly because of economic challenges. I lived with both parents going up, when I was about 8 my parents got divorced my mom remarried and had a daughter, than divorced and remarried my…

I have always been told that my family is of German and Swedish descent. I have never questioned this because there are many characteristics of my family that prove this statement true. Physical characteristics are one obvious way to see who my descendents are. If physical characteristics is not enough proof there are also other ways like looking at my family 's last name and my mom 's maiden name, both big give aways. According to “House of Names.com”, my last name “Ausmus” in Greek translation…

with a grandmother who greatly favored my cousins, and it was incredibly painful. Last summer while I was back home, my cousin, Ryma, got married. We had a lot of fun in her wedding party, and we took many nice photos either whit her, the bride, or with all my relatives. When I was looking at her photo album, I noticed my grandmother’s joy through her big smiling face and her endless hugs. I was happy and sad at the same time because she reacted differently in my sister’s wedding. Was it just a…

Family Issues One time when I was a kid something changed my life. I will never forget what had ever happened to me. It all started after hurricane Katrina, when my parents were getting a divorce. I never wanted that to happen to me in my life but it did any way. First, before all of that happening I was living a good life with a mom and dad who were married and a sister and brother that are my siblings. The reason why I loved my parents because 0. they use to spoil me and get me anything I…

My family is really close. It might be because of the war that my mom and her siblings had to endure, or maybe because that’s just how they grew up. Either way, I’m thankful for it. Or, at least, I thought I was. In Cambodian, all aunts and uncles older than your parents are called “Oum.” All aunts younger than your parents are called “Ming,” while all younger uncles are called “Pou.” Older relatives in your generation are called “Bong,” while all younger ones are called “Oun.”…

My family consists of my mom, dad, sister and myself. We are just missing the dog named Fido, a ‘57 Chevy and a recipe book of casseroles to become the perfect 1950’s model suburban family. However I believe we are far from the stereotype for a boring vanilla family. This might be just because I am a member of it, but I think we are pretty cool. My sister is ten years younger than I, so we do not have the classic sibling rivalry in competing for attention. We are very close and actually quite…

I was born into a Buddhist family. I was raised more than half of my life in a Buddhist family, and my parents were extremely religious. Buddhism has a tremendous contribution to the Thai culture; it is part of the Thais identity. To me, some of these practices never make sense. Therefore, I do not like the idea of this belief. For example, when people sinned, they often go to the temple and offer to monks so that their sin could be forgiven. I do not believe that you could buy your way into…

When you ask me what is my role in my family, I am lost in thought. I was born in an ordinary family. My mother is a quality supervisor and my father is a director of a foreign company. My role I think is the protector of my parent’s relationship, because I protect the complete family intentionally or unintentionally. By the way, my elder female cousin’s father divorce with her mother because of the endless quarrels when she was in the primary and she is fallen for a few years. I never thought…

For the first time in my life, I had the opportunity to create a genogram that would explore the history of myself and family. Much like a family tree, a genogram is a visual display of a person’s family relationships, psychological issues, medical history, culture and other hereditary likelihoods. Unfortunately, I was hoping to have been able to learn and share a lot about my family history but was unable to due to limited resources and lack of knowledge. Much of my genogram is composed of the…