Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday. Usually my family will make the drive out to Lake Charles, Louisiana. This is one of those years. This year my mom is going to New York with one of my sisters and one of my brothers to take care of my Grandmother. Because a lot of my siblings will be staying at college, I’ll be making the drive with only three of my brothers and my dad for six very long hours.
I have a big family and even though I have asked for a dog again and again I have never gotten one. Well until now. My big sister, Joy, had just gotten a new German Spitz puppy. We got to take care of it for two weeks wile she was competing in Asia and we fell in love with it. MY family is a bit big for a dog so we we were more than a little annoyed at getting shouldered with a 2 month old puppy who desperately needed training but has soon has he came that feeling flew away. Of course when my sister came to take him home we were all very upset but but then we found out that she got promoted to Soloist and would be traveling around Russia for a year which meant that we could keep the dog. He’s now 4 months old and growing, if possible, even cuter.
I am from double bunk beds
from screams and shouts
I am from the stone house between the 60 foot palm trees
the smell of maple bacon wafting through the house at ungodly hours
I am from the Gardenia whose long limbs always scratching on the windows
I am from arguments or “debates”
From Mom and Dad and the rest of my “innocent” siblings
and from practical jokes
I am from punishments and rewards
and the “Not Me” monster
I am from Santa Monica
From too much Valium
and stories that will last forever
I am from long forgotten pictures in photo albums that probably won’t ever be found
I am from all of these things both good and bad
I am from all of these things weather I like it or not
I have a fairly large family, and when I say “fairly large” I actually mean Huge (I have six brothers and two sisters). The oldest “kids”in my family are triplets named Chase Josh, and Sam they are 22 years old and are exactly ten years and seven days older then me. The next family member is Joy shes 19 years old and lives in Russia. She is the first American to be offered a three year contract to dance for the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, Russia. The next two kids are Luke and Grace, Luke being a minute older then Grace. Luke is going into his senior year at Westlake high school. Grace is going into her Freshman year at Drexel University. Clay is 14 years old and is going into his junior year at Westlake high school. He is fluent in Mandarin and travels around Asia every summer. David is in 8th grade at Westridge middle school.