My family

I have a very unique, interesting, and crazy family. I am the oldest of four daughters. I get along with all of them, they drive me nuts, but I love them very much. It's very interesting being the oldest, growing up it wasn't all that fun. Sometimes it felt like I was the guinea pig, sort of, I felt most of the pressure. I come from a very big family, my mom has 10 brother and sisters, so I have a lot of cousins. I grew up in a very small town, with about 200 or so people, about 15-20 kids. Me and my cousins used to get into so much trouble, but we fought like cats and dogs. Growing up was very different from the kids today. For example, Iceland only had two channels, channel one and channel two, tv didnt start until about 4:30pm, so we had to figure out a way to entertain ourself, and we did, boy was it fun. My life has changed in so many ways, I have been thru a lot, but it made me the person I am today, some people might say I am too nice to people, maybe I am, maybe not, but I wouldn't be here without my family, my big unique crazy family, one of my sisters wanted me to do a summary of my family, and that's what I am going to do. MY MOM: My mom is very outspoken person, it took her along time to get there, I don't always agree with my mom, but I will always love her. She has been thru hell and back, literally. She loves all of her daughters and her grandsons with everything she has, she would do anything for us. I remember when I used to work at Rob-May in San Diego, I got accused of giving a employee discount on clothes, and supposedly I got the same, which i didn't, anyway, my mom called the Loss Prevention people and basically cussed them out, yeah I didn't go back to that job. Me and my mom disagree on many many things, but she always supported me in my decisions. I have always wanted to make her proud, which I hope I have. MY DAD: What can I say about my dad, he was very strict with me when I was younger. I always tried to get away with different things, but forever reason he always found out, now I don't lie to him, because if I dad he would somehow find out :) I do appreciate everything he did for me, it wasn't easy raising me, I was 13 when my parents got married, I basically blamed him for splitting up my mom and biological dad, but somehow he got thru it. Up to today I always get advice from my dad, about anything and everything. He knows basically everything about me, I almost talk to him everyday. My dad was stricter than strict when it came to my school, manners, and responsibility. When I was in High school, he came and shadowed me ALL day in every class, talk about embarrassing. Hes one of the reasons why Im where I'm at today. SANDRA: Shes my best friend, I can tell her everything and she would never judge me. She had cancer when she was a junior in high school, she went thru a lot during her recovery, shes here and well, stronger than ever. I admire her in many ways, she's living the life I should had, she has an apartment, car, good job, and is free to do almost anything. When we were younger me and her used to fight, I mean fight, she used to scratch the heck out of me, but I deserved it, I wasn't always nice to her. I try what I can to be there for her today, whether she needs somebody to talk to, or just to vent about something. Shes my best friend, my everything. SOFFIA: Boy where do I start :-) soffia is a very unique person, she's very stubborn, but she's also very kind, when she wants to be. She has a very big heart, a very vunerable heart, I feel sometime people take advantage of her. She could do a lot better then where she is today, shes only 21, she has time to make things right. She's very good with kids, and she loves my boys, she calls them her babies, yeah right :) sometimes I just want to shake her, me and her have had many issues growing up, but I think she had grown a lot, but still needs some growing up to do. IRENE: My youngest sister, we are born in the same month, 15years apart, but we think alike a lot of times, there's been times when I text her bout something and shell go, "I was just thinking that". She's an amazing person, she has a lot going for her, she's about to graduate high school, then she's off too college. It almost seems like she had her life all planned out. She textes me 3-4x a day, which I love, she's so sweet, but she has a "bad" side, she loves family guy, just like my dad, it's so hilarious. I wish I lived closer to my family, I miss all of them a lot. Irene is very smart, it seems like she's always studying, she should talk to my son :) MY SON MICHAEL: I call him my "savior", he saved my life, I was heading in the wrong direction in life and there he came and changed my life. He's a pain in the butt, but he means everything to me. I am very overprotective over him, I have to know his every move(almost), me and him bumps head a lot but he confides in me a lot, asks me some very strang question, he wants to know EVERYTHING, how everything works, why people are the way they are, any question possible. He's 14, going thru some hormonal changes, we've all been there. He's a great kid, he wants to be a doctor when he gets older, an orthopedics surgeon, he's smart but lazy, but I couldn't ask for a better teenager. MY LITTLE MAN ALEXANDER My little one is very tempered, like his dad :) he's very funny, he's 19months, he sucks on his toes, all of them, basically sticks his whole foot in his mouth, yeah. He's still little and has a lot of growing up to do, I stay home with him, so we spend a lot of quality time together, which I missed with Michael. I cherish all the time I'm with my boys, because their growing up awful fast. MY HUSBAND he's very unique person, he has a lot of great qualities, he also has flaws, but nobody's perfect. It took us 10years to get married, but we did and we have a wonderful family together. He's the total opposite of me, he's older, shorter, and is a different race, but my whole family is blended so race is never a factor. I think we have a pretty decent life, Im able to stay and take care of my boys, he travel so during the week it's tough. He's a very kind and generous person, him and Michael bump heads quite often, they have a unique relationship, not always the best but it always works out. My family isn't always the best and dont always see eye to eye but there the best family I could ever ask for.