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.