The Friday Five/ Just Wondering
These questions were written by ayebydan
1. Did you grow up with your parents together as a unit?
2. Did you reach adulthood with four living grandparents?
3. Is your extended family a close one or not?
4. Does your family have a 'black sheep'?
5. What is your first memory of a family member that is not your mother(s) or father(s)?
1. I did. My mom was Catholic, so divorce wasn’t even considered. For a shotgun wedding (Mom was pregnant with my sister) and having nothing in common, they were married for nearly 50 years before my dad passed away at 80.
2. Nope. Three were dead before I arrived. The only one still living was my maternal grandmother and I have only one memory of her and being in her kitchen with my Mom. She passes on my 5th birthday.
3. Again, no. I have many, many cousins and I stay as far away from them as possible (it was not a good time with them as a kid). I’m not even close to my immediate family. My two brothers have passed and my sister is lives in the East. We get along fine as long as there as there’s a country between us.
4. That would have been my brother, Butch. He was a wild child, in and out of reform school and jail. The military straightened him up, but he came out of it with a pregnant wife, and both an alcohol and drug problem. It wasn’t until he was in his 50s that he was able to get clean and sober.
5. That would be my brother, Butch. I adored him as a child and would follow him like a puppy dog. For my second Christmas, he gave me some parakeets (he adored birds). I remember that moment very clearly.
1. Did you grow up with your parents together as a unit?
2. Did you reach adulthood with four living grandparents?
3. Is your extended family a close one or not?
4. Does your family have a 'black sheep'?
5. What is your first memory of a family member that is not your mother(s) or father(s)?
1. I did. My mom was Catholic, so divorce wasn’t even considered. For a shotgun wedding (Mom was pregnant with my sister) and having nothing in common, they were married for nearly 50 years before my dad passed away at 80.
2. Nope. Three were dead before I arrived. The only one still living was my maternal grandmother and I have only one memory of her and being in her kitchen with my Mom. She passes on my 5th birthday.
3. Again, no. I have many, many cousins and I stay as far away from them as possible (it was not a good time with them as a kid). I’m not even close to my immediate family. My two brothers have passed and my sister is lives in the East. We get along fine as long as there as there’s a country between us.
4. That would have been my brother, Butch. He was a wild child, in and out of reform school and jail. The military straightened him up, but he came out of it with a pregnant wife, and both an alcohol and drug problem. It wasn’t until he was in his 50s that he was able to get clean and sober.
5. That would be my brother, Butch. I adored him as a child and would follow him like a puppy dog. For my second Christmas, he gave me some parakeets (he adored birds). I remember that moment very clearly.