Family Journal Entry
For my journal entry, I am choosing to write about my family institution. I grew up in a single-parent household for the first three years of my life, before my mother married again and they had two children together. After eleven years of marriage, they divorced and my mother did not remarry until I was in my late 20’s. My two younger siblings both left to live with their father and his new wife. This left me and my mother in the household. I was an active child growing up, I was either, always in the barn with my horses or playing outside. This was a time before electronics became so popular. People conversed with one another, not texted back and forth. Communication was through a telephone, face to face, or in other settings. We, my mother
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Their property is considered a farm and they had raised a variety of farm animals that were raised for consumption, selling to other farmers, or for our own pleasure. Horses, pigs, and cattle were raised the most on the farm. There is also a large garden that we tended to every spring. There were several fruit trees, vegetables, and flowers that we would plant every spring and pick when they were ripe enough to consume. Although I lived with my mother full time, my family members may tell you that I actually “lived” in both households. I was inseparable from my grandparents and my Uncle Stan. My Uncle Stan also resided on the property, in between his moving around the state. He never moved very far from home, so he was always close enough to come back to help take care of the animals.
My current living situation has myself, my current husband and my two children living together, not too far from where I grew up. Our situation is different than most families. I am 6’ tall and my husband is only 5’ 5” tall. We are separated in age by 17 years. My children are 19 and 10 years old, my husbands are 43 and 38 years old. My husband also has three grandchildren, while I do not. We consider each other’s children as our own, we love them all unconditionally, as a parent/grandparent
Their property is considered a farm and they had raised a variety of farm animals that were raised for consumption, selling to other farmers, or for our own pleasure. Horses, pigs, and cattle were raised the most on the farm. There is also a large garden that we tended to every spring. There were several fruit trees, vegetables, and flowers that we would plant every spring and pick when they were ripe enough to consume. Although I lived with my mother full time, my family members may tell you that I actually “lived” in both households. I was inseparable from my grandparents and my Uncle Stan. My Uncle Stan also resided on the property, in between his moving around the state. He never moved very far from home, so he was always close enough to come back to help take care of the animals.
My current living situation has myself, my current husband and my two children living together, not too far from where I grew up. Our situation is different than most families. I am 6’ tall and my husband is only 5’ 5” tall. We are separated in age by 17 years. My children are 19 and 10 years old, my husbands are 43 and 38 years old. My husband also has three grandchildren, while I do not. We consider each other’s children as our own, we love them all unconditionally, as a parent/grandparent