Get to Know My Family

My family consists of 4 people, my mama, papa, brother, and yours truly. We live in a subdivision, but when mama finds work and located far away from home, they decided to move us to my father's side's house, where my aunt, uncle, and grandparents live.

My papa, when he is still a child, he gets sick easily, that's why he is always in his room. He said to me that he saw a merman at the lake when he was young. My aunt told me that a couple wants to adopt my mama because he looks like a Chinese boy, but my grandparents did not approve. My papa loves to play basketball. He worked hard just to give us pocket money whenever we go to school. My papa is my best friend. We made fun of ourselves every day, and we are exactly alike. Sometimes we argue, the worst argument we had is when I arrive late because of my cheer dance practice, he yelled and say bad words to me for the first time, and I cried hard that day, I know that he is just doing his job as a father. When we are together, it's so much fun.

My mama is opposite to my papa's personality. My papa is more feminine than my mama. I'm afraid of her because she is sometimes strict. My mama is a hard-working woman just to provide us everything we need and want. To be honest, I'm not very close with my mama, I mean we're close, but things changed when she is never around because she goes home once a week, but I know that she find ways just to bond and be with us. I enjoy spending time with her. My mama is my idol. I want to be like her, a strong and independent woman.

My brother is everything to me even though we had a six years age gap. My mama and I argued when she is pregnant with him because I told mama that it's going to be a boy and mama would say that it's a boy, and it's a boy. I want a baby sister and not a brother because I want to take care of her, brush her hair, and dress her up, but having a baby brother is not that bad even though we fight almost every day, but we get along pretty well, and we have the same interests.

My aunt is my best friend and also my second mother because she is the one who took care of me when I was a child until today because my mama works far away and can't be with us every day. Some say that she is like my mom because we look alike. I'm very thankful to have her. I always rely on her.

My grandparents are the most precious ones. They are very loving with each other. I laugh whenever they argue with some things, they argue because they can't hear well, they can't hear properly what they are saying even though they are very close to each other. I love them both because they are the funniest and caring grandparents.

I had lots of respect for my family because they do things for our sake and very hard-working people. My family is everything to me. All those hard work that they do, I know that it is for us, that's why when I graduate and have a decent job in the future, I will pay back all those hard work and efforts that they exert.