Growing Up

How I have become who I am today is because of my family and friends. My family is everything to me, everyone says it but I can see why. I grew up with a big family, and I love it, I don't know how people can do it by themselves or only with a one or two other siblings. I guess they do it because they don't know what it's like to have more than just one or two siblings. I absolutely love having a big family, if I need advice on certain things I can ask anyone of them I want and they will all give me different advide, I like that a lot.


I remember we would all sit on the kitchen table (which was huge)and watch for the bus and when we saw the bus we would all yell it so we all heard, and hoping nobody would miss the bus. As for the ride home on the bus we would all seperate, one would have wrestling practice, the other would have basketball, and some would end up coming home on the bus. The bus route for the way home was long we would be the last ones off which meant we wouldn't get home until about 4:35 which made me mad because Arthur started at 4:00 and I hated missing it. So instead of riding the whole bus route our parents gave us a choice to get dropped of at the top of our road and walk home, it was about a 3/4 of a mile walk and of course we chose the walk instead of the bus route. So we would get dropped of at the top of the road and walk home, some days we would be to lazy to walk all the way home so we would take turns having one person run home and get the four wheeler and drive it to the top of the road, pick us up and give us a ride home so we wouldn't have to walk all the way home. I also remember when it was winter and we walked home my brothers were so mean to me they use to through me down the hill into the snow bank or rub my face in the snow. I would get so mad at them that I would lay in the middle of the road and just stay there and they would walk the rest of the way home.


My favorite holiday is christmas so I remember a lot about christmas. About two weeks before christmas we would harness the horses up and go out and cut down our one christmas tree, bring it back and decorate it. Of course I thought everybody did it that way, turns out you can go out and buy christmas trees, I think thats just so funny. We would always ice skate on christmas eve at one of our ponds at our house, we would have a fire and we would play hockey on the ice. We always opened one present on christmas eve, I also thought everybody did that too, turns out they don't. I would always count the presents to see who get the most. We use to all sleep upstairs on christmas eve night and when christmas day came we would usually all be up by 4 o'clock in the morning and we would yell down asking if its time for us to come down yet. Our parents told us when they were ready for us to come down, at about 5 o'clock they would be ready for us, so they would yell up for us to come down. You should have felt the steps as everyone ran down them, there wooden steps to, so I am quite suprised they withheld all of the pressure. As soon as we got downstairs we would all run to the bathroom and fight over who got to go first, we only had one bathroom between all of us. My parents always had candy on the table and Dean Martin in the CD player, with no doubt it was the same exact way every christmas.


Through out this whole blog I never told you how many siblings I have, I have 5 brothers and 3 sisters and we are all fully related. I would give up anything for them guys, I love them so much. I have so many memories with them it's crazy. I think I can safely say I think I had the best childhood in the world. Growing up on a farm and with so many brothers and sisters, there was not one bored moment.

Young at Heart.

I was so inspired when I watched the movie Young at Heart. I walked out of the class smiling that day, I was very happy that Sheila showed us that movie, and I think that everybody should have a chance to watch that movie. Those are the sort of things in life that keep me striving for more, seeing things like that makes me want to go out and do things and not just lay on the couch. Seeing all them elderly people out and about having a good time. Not sitting home being cranky and sad, there out and having a good time, enjoying what they have left. You would think they would be tired and exhausted and I am sure they are but yet they still keep on singing and traveling around.


I currently work at a nursing home right now and I love it. I love it because of the elderly people and not because of the people I work with. I look forward going to work and I have a smile on the whole time I am there. Whenever my shift is up and I walk out of that building I have learned something new, there is not one time that I have not learned something of them old ladies. They make my day no matter how bad of a mood I was in before I came to work. Just seeing them still smiling and trying to make the most out of life, even though they are stuck in a nursing home. Yes there are a few that are just plain cranky and don't want anything to do with you, and they can't wait to get out. With people like that I just walk up to them just simply smile and on the outside they show that there mad and just want you to leave them alone, but inside I know that they are truly happy to see us young people walking around smiling and enjoying our lives.


Elderly people are the same as us young people, they just look a little older, and know a heck of a lot more than us. Before I worked at the nursing home I use to be weird around old people, I just didn't know what to say or do around them, I didn't know how to act. If I would have never started working at the nursing home I probably would be the same way, working at the nursing home changed a lot for me. It made me realize that elderly people are just the same as us, just people trying to live there lives.

Time is a Precious Thing

I did not need to watch this video again I heard something the first time I watched it that really stuck in my head. It went something like, we offer kids time something that seems to be in short supply of these days, I think the reason this stuck in my head so much was because this is what you hear a lot from your friends, family, yourself, everybody. Everybody saying they don't have enough time to clean there house, or to go watch there kids games, or to take time for themselves. Well everybody has time, and everybody has the same amount of time in each day, not one person gets more time in one day than another, everybody gets 1440 minutes in one day. Its how you spend your time in those minutes, that result into the days in each year, and each year into decades.

So why does time feel like it is in such short supply of these days. Maybe its because you are a very busy business man/woman or a very busy college student, whatever it may be you insist that your to busy to go have dinner with your parents or go have a day with your son/daughter. This is when I believe were in short supply of time, when your to busy thinking about how busy you are to realize that you've got time, time that your wasting right now thinking about it. You can always make time for something, always. Time is in short supply when you've lost your chance to do something, or when you've lost your chance because your time has come, or when you've been given a short time to live, that is when your in short supply of time.

I understand how it is to be busy, but yet I always make time to go out and enjoy myself and do things that need to be done. If I have a pile of homework and it is due tomorrow but my friends call me up and want to go out and do something, I will go out with my friends, just because I know I can do my homework when I get home, even if it means staying up all night and getting up extra early to get it done, and least I can say I went out and enjoyed myself instead of feeling bad for myself because I am to busy to have a life.

I hope after reading this you will start to make time for your friends, family, and yourself. Start to enjoy the little things in life, and not be down because your so busy, be happy that you are busy. =))