My Family’s Distinctive Lifestyle

Being a member of a large family is said to be challenging. In same ways, I agree. However, in my family we learn to embrace as well as to adore one another. Hard work, honesty, and respect reflect the values of my family.
Hard work is often displayed when my father awakes every morning to prepare for work. Work is a very important issue in a family. People need work in order to pay bills that will avoid late fees and/or disconnection. Work not only applies to bills, but it offers benefits such as healthcare and vacations. Hard work is a value that should not be taken lightly. I have learned from observing my father’s hard work that even the hardest tasks in life can be completed.
Honesty plays another important role in our family. For as long as I can remember my mom has been the most honest and loyal person I have ever met. She’s honest to herself, her community, and her religion. My mom would never cheat anyone out of anything; many say it is her religion that makes her so loyal. She gives good opinions, but I feel more comfortable talking to my cousins. Due to us being in the same age range I believe they better understand my situations. My cousins tell me the truth even if it requires hurting my feelings and/or leading to an argument that want last long. I can depend on them, they are my back bone.
As we all many know, honesty comes with respect. No matter what people should respect themselves as well as others. Respect is a word used often but shown little. In my family, the word respect is constantly stretched to show us as youth that respect for elders will get us very far in life. By my family trying their best to be perfect role models they do not use profanity around youth. I believe my family will succeed in their tasks to show us what life is all about.
A common belief is that the unity of a family is what holds us all together. I enjoy every moment I spend around my family. I believe I will be successful in all I do by remembering what they have taught me. These sources are examples I will carry throughout life.

My reaction

I enjoyed reading other bloggers blogs. I gained different styles on how and what to write about. The comments that bloggers left for me to read really helped me when I went back to make changes to my essay;very beneficial. Because the bloggers were very straight forward and I can tell they had read my essay carefully because I went back and read and I found some of the same mistakes. 

Greatest Challenge

The greatest challenged I faced in writing this essay was the fact that I had to put together a well organized paper that I could relate to and describe its every aspect. This was a challenge to me because I am so used to free writing and expressing how I feel in not so much detail. So I came up with a simple format that allowed me to be as formal as possible. I first sat down and I wrote down what I would like to write about, then I said what made me want to write about it? And those to questions gave me my topic and detail. Everything else just kind of pulled together. 

Getting Lost

I could not believe it! It was the day I had waited on , like forever. I never thought I would have seen myself in a white evening gown, trenched with a long white tail and the clearest slippers any princess could ever dream of. I was excited and thrilled, and for once I felt like the most beautifulest girl in the world. I remember sitting in my dressing room humming to myself a familiar song about how love takes people up and down, like a roller coaster. And suddenly I started to reminisce on all the things me and my soon to be husband have gone through over the years.
I remember waking up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep because of the scent of another woman's perfume. My spouse is a Co-Executive at Liberty Inc., promoted to persuade any young woman he is the idea of "Mr. Perfect". So, there I was pasting in the middle of the night wondering will this ever come to an end. Now I am asking myself questions like, would I ever be able to get into my bed and be held by this guy I love more than anything in the world? Those nights drove me delusional and I often had flashes, like visions, of what would happen if I walked out and left my two kids and their father alone. But I knew all of this was besides the point it was my wedding day and it was not the time to get lost on the past, because there has got to be something that led to this magnificent point.
I do remember the times when he would call home to see what the kids and I was doing and to make sure we were safe. And he would always make me feel comfortable to express how I felt no matter what the situation was. When I was finally fed up with the late nights of perfume and visions of him and someone else, I actually confronted him and he was able to sit down and let me express exactly how I felt and ever since that night he has been "Mr.Perfect" to me. There has not been any other scent in my bed, besides Dulce and Gabana, which I could not go a day without wearing.
And reality I come to relax that everything will not always be perfect. I have to learned to accept the past and move forward with what the future holds.