Since this blog is going to mostly be about my family, I thought I should introduce them. So the next few ( ok, 12) blogs will be a brief bio of each of the kids. Then if hubby doesn't mind, I'll do one of him, too.
So my oldest is Anna. She is 15 now. She is intelligent, funny, pretty, and stubborn as all get out! She does ok in school. Nothing really spectacular but she holds her own. She plays basketball and has the potential to be really good. She is in Drama and is very good at that! She loves acting, writing plays and directing her siblings in them. She also plays piano well. She is a huge help at home with all the little ones, chores, and even some cooking. She just finished her freshman year of high school. Wow, what a rush! So many new experiences for her and me. She was on the basketball team, she was in the high school play, she went to prom, she went to Rome. I think maybe that's why her academics weren't so great this year. Hopefully, next year will be better.
She is so good with kids and little kids just flock to her but she insists she doesn't want to get married and have kids. This worries me a little. Does my life seem so horrible to her that she wants anything but that? Do I complain too much? Or is it the natural reaction of the oldest of a large family?
She is growing up so fast! When she was a toddler, she was a handful. Temper tantrums like you wouldn't believe! And so adventuresome. She scaled a 6 foot fence when she was 2yo to chase a cat. I thought she was safe in backyard playing while I was in the house with the 6mo old, making something in the kitchen but when I went to check on her, she was gone! I was also 3 mo pregnant with #3. We had just moved to this house and I didn't know any of the neighbors. What a way to introduce myself! It took us a while to find her and I had just called 911 when one of the neighbor boys shouted that he found her. She was totally unfazed and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. The little stinker!
I thought then that she couldn't grow up fast enough. But now it seems to have gone by so quickly. Not that I want to go back to those days because they were really hard! It just seems that now she is so much fun to have around, to have good conversations with, it's going by too fast and soon she'll be off to college somewhere. Not that everything is smooth sailing. Having teens is hard too but I think the rewards are better. Not every day is hard but every day there is good conversation and fun times.
One thing I'm really impressed about her is how *not* boy crazy she is. Oh, she has crushes but she doesn't get all silly and stupid about them. In fact, she has much disdain for girls do get silly about boys. I thought that was pretty mature. I was one of the girls she would have been disdainful of, so I am really happy she is not that way. I blush just thinking about how stupidly I acted at her age!
It seems like I could go on forever about Anna. But I won't. I think that gives a pretty good picture of her personality. And I'm sure other things will come out as I continue the story of this crazy but lovable family.
