My distant family

Jessica Mendez

My Family

            As a typical Mexican, we come from where family is very important to us.  My family and I enjoy doing some extreme sports. When we were younger our motto was “We do it together, or we don’t do it all.” That was our motto for as long as I remember. Then all of a sudden, we grew up. As we got older, we all tend do to our own things and slowly that motto started to fade away.  My oldest sister, Cristina, still lives at home. Although, she may live at home and we see each other daily, she is always in her room and most of the time she would rather be by herself. My other older sister, who is also the middle child, well she moved in with her boyfriend. I rarely see her because well she is doing her own thing with her boyfriend and because we barely got along as well. As for my parents, well my mother is a stay home mom and my dad is an owner of a ranch in Camarillo. My dad and I still keep that motto. We always hang out and go do something exciting on the weekends. Whether it was hiking, snowboarding, swimming, kayaking or paddle boarding.  This tends to hurt my family because at one point we were close where we hung out every weekend and now we rarely talk to each other. Its as if we hate each other. The only time we talk or see each other is if an unexpected event occurs. Which to me is sad because there isn’t any communication between any of us.  My oldest sister Cristina is more of a girly girl where she dresses up everyday and puts on make up. She is very similar to my mom but my mom doesn’t put very much make up.  As for me my dad always tells me “You’re the boy I never had.” I always laugh when he tells me. My dad and I are very similar where we just don’t care if we get hurt, we just love to have fun and try new things. Sadly our family isn’t the same way but it wasn’t my choice nor my parents choice to conceive their other daughters.