Day 3.. ramblings and regrets..

Day 3. siblings and parents.
dont mind the grammatical errors, im just too lazy to read through this.

Well, I dont know where to start with this one. Truthfully, I have a lot of regrets when it comes to my family. I really regret being such a difficult teenager to raise. Im sure there were worse kids to raise, but my biggest problem was I was just so cranky. I wasnt very nice to my mom...why? I have no idea. .but I really cant pin point why I was such a grump. On the happier side Im not a grump anymore..ha..

I was raised by two enormously wonderful people. Really, Im sure you have awesome parents but mine are pretty wonderful too. I am now just starting to realize why they did so many of the things they did. For instance, my mom never let me wonder downtown like so many of my friends did. Downtown...so not classy. I was very shy as a child and my mom MADE me do alot of things that were completely out of my comfort zone. I was talking to my sister about this and we both agreed she had this weird power over us. If she told us 'we had to' we really thought there was no other way. My mom and dad took us for sunday drives which at the time i totally hated. 

"MOM. DAD !, where are we going"

"I dont know, we are just going for a drive"

"WHY, this is so dumb, lets go home"

(so not nice!)

But on several occasions on our way home from somwhere I will ask Chris if we can DRIVE somewhere. He usually asks me where and then he will drive around a bit. I dont think we had very much money growing up but I honestly didnt have a clue. I remember in our storage room there were about 25 boxes of shreddies cereal. I honestly thought my parents just bought up a bunch of shreddies. But really it was because they were on some amazing sale price and that was all we could afford. The other day I was at my parents eating and my dad made spaghetti. Whenever my parents make spaghetti they add a can of mushroom soup to it. I have never really known why, but at the last dinner there I asked them why. They answered.....so the spaghetti would go further. My dad said he didnt have enough spaghetti sauce once and so he added a can. Now they just do it out of habit.
Another thing about my family I regret is how selfish I was after I moved out of the house. I really didnt call home too often, hardly ever called my sister. I just was so caught up in what I was doing I just thought my family life would never change. But, unfortunatley my family did change and we lost a member of it. I still think about how fun it would have been to get to know my sister and her family better when she had her young little babies... but I was off in lala land. But, i guess everyone has different experiences that make them realize what is important. I wish I had a better understanding that friends come and go but family is what is important. I had my priorities upside down.

With that all said. I have a wonderful family. I have an older sister and brother. My sister is awesome at everything... seriously.. she is a talented gal. My brother has some struggles but has a very big heart. I consider my mom my  best friend. I can talk to her about anything... I love that she just lets me vent. I love my dad. I still sit on his lap... he has the best lap to sit on. Sometimes when my niece, nephews or parks are on my dads knee I want to tell them to scoood over.ha
My Dad is the most patient person you will ever meet. My Mom is the nicest lady you will ever meet. Everytime I left the house my mom would say...Remember to be nice! two years ago for my birthday she made me a sign for the side of my bed that says.... you guessed it ....remember to be nice!
So if I am ever not nice....since my mom cant always be around me, it is your responsablity to remind me to be nice...