Family

I have two sisters and a half brother. Erica is my younger sister and she is twenty-two. Jamie is my older sister and she is twenty-five. Louie is my older brother and he is thirty. There has been a lot of drama in my family. My parents are divorced and I hardly know any of my relatives from my dad side. When I was growing up we always did everything with my mom’s side of the family. We celebrated birthdays, thanksgiving, Christmas, and new years all with my mom’s side. I love my family and they all mean a lot to me. Now everyone is so busy and doing their own thing it’s hard to see all of them. My younger sister got married this past year and she moved to New Mexico. I call her or text her to see how she’s doing, but I get pretty busy myself. My older sister is busy with her job and her boyfriend. She just recently got an apartment with her boyfriend. I don’t like to call my brother my half brother because I never seen him as a half brother. In reality he is though. He always lived with his dad’s side of the family, so I never really spent time with him except at celebrations of course. Even with my mom’s side of the family I hardly see my grandma or grandpa. It’s hard because of school and I’m always busy most of the time. Sometimes it feels like I don’t have a family because I hardly see any of them. I know that’s not true of course because when we need each other every one of us is there. I wish we could always be close like when we were younger, but that’s just a part of growing up I guess. We have to move on and start new lives and new families. I also wonder what it would have been like if my parents would have stayed together. Would our family be closer than it is now? All the drama that’s happened between my families I see past all of it because I love all my family no matter what. I’m never going to abandon my family because you’re always going to need family in your life.