When I was about 3 years old, I can remember my Grandparents lake house in Houston, Texas. My parents and I lived there until my grandparents moved into the country 2 hours outside Houston. Before moving, I can remember my mother taking me out to the lake to feed the ducks and always telling me I can’t swim in the lake because it’s too dirty. I remember going into the kitchen to get juice and spilled it everywhere and was found cleaning my mess while cursing because I thought saying “Shit” and “God Damnit” would magically clean the mess. I would grab a stick of butter and sit 3 inches from the television while watching the Teletubbies. I remember when we had our holiday family reunion at that lake house. Everyone from my mom’s side of the family
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When I was a kid, I would be the only one there, and by that I mean everyone else was a teenager or adults. The most attention I would get is when we would visit during the holidays and I got a ton of personalized presents from everyone and for maybe 10 minutes be the focal point of the party. Now, I am no longer the youngest of the family. Now I have 4 year and 1 year old cousins Maggie and Sammy, who are siblings. Now that I am 17, I am seen more as an adult and can have conversations with my family that I can understand and can now appreciate why they are being loud and screaming. Even though I am mostly an introvert, so I don’t really participate in the loud conversations. I look at my younger cousins and see how I grew up through them. They now get all of the attention for 15 or so minutes and all the extravagant presents that they get. I see now that things definitely change. There is less screaming and loud talking, everyone’s getting older and things really change. When I was a kid I always viewed the parties as though they were from another world. They felt full of color and different personalities and Molly the yappy chihuahua who I was deathly afraid of. And now, I love Molly, probably cause now I’m taller, and she 's much older now so she has less energy to yap and run around. I have a newfound appreciation for my mom’s family because now I can connect …show more content…
From when I was little cousin Maggie 's age to now I have been through so much and have seen a dramatic change in my family. It’s only life. As they get older new things approach for them, such as my cousins with getting married, soon they will start thinking about children. My grandparents are getting older and eventually another big change will take place when they pass. We all don’t accept change at first but it has to happen there 's no option. My family teaches me something every time my mom and I go to Shiro. It’s actually funny how we all live these separate lives whether it’s in the city or the country, working a big business job or helping out the locals with construction work. We all stop our lives to be together and see one another to reconnect and appreciate each other. We learn and grow together even though we are all different in age, where we live, and what jobs we may have. Family, for me, teaches me that there will always be change, but the best thing to do is accept it and appreciate what I had and what there is for me to
When I was a kid, I would be the only one there, and by that I mean everyone else was a teenager or adults. The most attention I would get is when we would visit during the holidays and I got a ton of personalized presents from everyone and for maybe 10 minutes be the focal point of the party. Now, I am no longer the youngest of the family. Now I have 4 year and 1 year old cousins Maggie and Sammy, who are siblings. Now that I am 17, I am seen more as an adult and can have conversations with my family that I can understand and can now appreciate why they are being loud and screaming. Even though I am mostly an introvert, so I don’t really participate in the loud conversations. I look at my younger cousins and see how I grew up through them. They now get all of the attention for 15 or so minutes and all the extravagant presents that they get. I see now that things definitely change. There is less screaming and loud talking, everyone’s getting older and things really change. When I was a kid I always viewed the parties as though they were from another world. They felt full of color and different personalities and Molly the yappy chihuahua who I was deathly afraid of. And now, I love Molly, probably cause now I’m taller, and she 's much older now so she has less energy to yap and run around. I have a newfound appreciation for my mom’s family because now I can connect …show more content…
From when I was little cousin Maggie 's age to now I have been through so much and have seen a dramatic change in my family. It’s only life. As they get older new things approach for them, such as my cousins with getting married, soon they will start thinking about children. My grandparents are getting older and eventually another big change will take place when they pass. We all don’t accept change at first but it has to happen there 's no option. My family teaches me something every time my mom and I go to Shiro. It’s actually funny how we all live these separate lives whether it’s in the city or the country, working a big business job or helping out the locals with construction work. We all stop our lives to be together and see one another to reconnect and appreciate each other. We learn and grow together even though we are all different in age, where we live, and what jobs we may have. Family, for me, teaches me that there will always be change, but the best thing to do is accept it and appreciate what I had and what there is for me to