Grateful!

I think that in my life I have been extremely blessed. I have great health, family, and home. I think however, out of those three my most grateful blessing is my family. I was raised very well and I love my childhood very much. My parents have never been very protective over me and they give me alot of space to do what I want but they keep me in check with morals and standards.

My mother is probably my best friend. I love her to death because she is absolutley hilarious. From the six weeks after I was born to about six grade, she was gone alot. She left on buisness trips and put me in day care too often. At the time I was sad, but now looking back I think that being raised in day-cares, camps, and after-school programs has made me alot more independant. Not to mention that my immune system is indomitable thanks to my early exposure to germs [lolz]. Once she had climbed the work ladder and was at the top, we had alot more time to spend together. I was older and more mature so we could hang out alot more and have fun for both of us. I love my mom because no matter what, she will love me back. She always laughs at my jokes and supports me. Something that I am very thankful about how she raised me was the trust she put in me. She let me do alot of things that other mom's wouldnt appove of. She thinks of me more an adult than a child [which is a good thing because she allows me to do adult things].

My dad, is a whole different book. I have to admit he is pretty funny, however he really isn't much of a parent. Like my mom, he holds high morals and standards; the difference is that while my mom is very involved in my life, he is very involved in being a teenager [even though he is 48] I actually, enjoy the fact that he acts like a kid because I find him much more entertaining like that. So many people have serious and strict parents, thankfully I'm not one of those people. My dad is in love with trying to be hip... for example he just bought a drum set and is learning the base and drums; he also just bought a verrry expensive car called the SRT8 [he thinks its cool]; oh yea and he just got back from tijauana and bought me this huge meddalion chain necklace that has a big money sign on it. Like I mentioned, he is more of a child than me.

One huge thing I have learned from my parents is that raising a child to be a good person doesnt have to mean your strict, mean, and boring. I will always love my family and I want to raise my kids exactly like they raised me.