true or false

1.      I am currently 19 years old.

2.      I don’t drink soda  

3.      I have 2 brothers only

4.      I went to Colorado Springs this summer

5.      My favorite food is pizza

Stronger than Ever

For once in my life I can say I'm in LOVE and HAPPY!!!

Four years later and still happily toghether.

hero

Growing up I always took my mother for granted. We had our good and bad times like any mother daughter relationship. We were each other’s best friends. When you grow up you have the mentality that nothing ever bad is going to happen to you or your family. Well that is not always the case. When my mom had my brother she was diagnosed with asthma about a year after he was born. I thought nothing of it since I was still too young to comprehend quite what it was and what its downfall with time would cause. I thought everything was still normal with her since I never saw her get sick.

When my brother and I got a little older to understand more of her sickness, she trained me and my brother how to set up all of her equipment in case of an emergency. But like I said before I thought nothing of it since once again I had never seen her get sick and thought everything was fine. That was until one day when we were away for the holidays. In Mexico, one early morning I was awaken by a sudden surge in me, till this day I don’t know what awoken me. As I looked over my shoulder my mom was suffocating next to me her desperateness for oxygen sacred me. Here I was a 7 year old with the hands of her mother’s life, “What do I do, what do I do” I said to myself, as her machine for oxygen was outside in the living room. I panicked more as I realized the door was stuck and I could not open it. My mother weakened by the lack of oxygen going thru her lungs tried to help me. My resources were limited “What do I do, what do I do” I said to myself again. Then it popped into my head to scream, here I was a 7 year old screaming to the top of her lungs “HELP!!!!” As I screamed out of nowhere my mom’s sisters came running to the room pushing as hard as they could the door opened I ran to my mom’s machine set it up and gave it to her. As she took that gasp for air as her lungs opened up again I felt relief I was my mom’s hero.

If it was not for me waking up that day who knows what might have happened. Since that day I appreciate my mother much more and we have gotten closer. I went from being an ungrateful brat who took her for granted to being a hero.

      

Mi Familia

I come from a big family in my mom’s immediate family we are a total of 27. There are 11 grandchildren 14 aunts and uncles including my mom and my wonderful grandparents whom I love very much.

Wow my family what can I say we are a bit on the weird side but I love it I would not change it for the world. There is my mom my two brothers and me and just us four is a hand full of fun and drama. But when we get together with my mom’s family it’s like we are at a party there is never a dull moment. The grandkids alone make it seem like we run a day care. For example on BBQ Sundays I do not understand how the neighbors don’t call the police on us because we are so loud. We have the music playing full blast and some dancing goes on here and there. The kids run around like crazy like there is no tomorrow. My uncles in the corner of the porch, like usual cracking jokes about each other, and drinking their “cervesas” gossiping on soccer for hours and hour’s even days. While my aunt’s sit in the kitchen table catching up on the latest gossip of “novelas” and future events. Typical traditional norms that I grew up to love, it is nice to come home and not have a quiet dinner of four but be able to communicate and laugh about our day. I love the fact that my family is so full of love and everyone helps out and is there for everyone when they need a hand.   I like how we are so open to anything and make everyone fell like they are in their own home I feel like we are friendly and easy going. We are unique we are not like most families out there we know how to have a good time.

Despite the crazy and fun moments with my family I do not know what I would have done without them they have shaped me to who I have grown up to be they gave me values that I live by. They showed me manners and how to treat people they gave me a home and brought food to the table. But above all my family gave me the sufficient amount of love I needed to not notice that my dad was not a part of my life.