My dad is a good Irish Catholic gentleman from North Dallas.
My mom was a good Lutheran girl from a place called Holland.
You've probably seen my sister Val (@gingeravenger@xanga) write about Holland. Her blog is a lot more popular than mine.
Anyway, Dad goes to Baylor for undergrad biochem degree. Mom gets her teaching certificate at UHV (University of Houston - Victoria). Four years after Baylor, Dad goes home to Dallas and starts school at UT-Southwestern. Mom's teaching 6th grade at Bowman Middle School. Dad finishes up with med school and is officially a general care physician. He decides he wants to take a break from his home in Preston Hollow (he moved to West Plano for his job later) and go back to somewhere near Baylor. An office in Holland was renting space, so Dad took it and started his own practice that successfully ran for 17 years. He and my mother met at some kind of town function, but it didn't work out. Dad doesn't belong in the boondocks, and Dallas scares my mother. They're incompatible, but they swore they loved each other for the time they were married.
During that time, they had ten children. I hope to God I can remember them all!
1) This is my oldest brother Alexander and his new baby, Summer. He's thirty-six. He has two other girls, Ella and Delia. His wife's name is Kayla, and she's not so bad. She just talks a little too much. He got a finance degree from Baylor then moved to a smallish town about 50 miles west of Houston. I hardly ever talk to him.
2) Meet Penelope; the thirty-three-year-old baby dominatrix. She has seven kids and doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon. She lives on her Husband's farm in Holland, and doesn't work. This picture is a few years old. I think Cassandra took this one Easter a few weeks after Penelope's fifth child, Chloe, was born. The kid's here are Sophia and James: third and fourth.
3) Makali's really cool. She lives in Granbury with her husband who coaches at a small private school out there. Six man football small. I went out to watch a six man game two years ago. We sat out in 110F heat, watched a bunch of sweaty boys pound each other, got pretty hyped up on sour skittles and football, and it was awesome! Makali snagged a shirt for me, and her husband Brian snapped a couple of shots in front of the Dallas Cowboys Shrine. None of us get to see her much since she lives so far out from all of us, but she's the shit.
Her daughter, Zooey, is a baby model.
Yup. Makali's pretty awesome.
4) Cassandra is twenty-nine. She lives in Ama(rillo). She has one boy Scotty, the baby in the first two pictures. She's really into photography so she is somehow able to snap immaculate shots of herself. Her husband, Charles, works as some kind of salesman downtown so Cassandra has her own studio and shoots for extra money. She's pretty damn good in my opinion.
For the record: I'm not saying that because I'm her sister. I don't even like her. It's mutual.
5). Julia is twenty-seven. She lives in Keller, but I think by the picture it's obvious she can't rip free from her small town roots. She went to college at Dallas Baptist and teaches 12th grade Stats. Her husband works for Frito Lay in Plano (Go Wolves!) and makes pretty good money. She swears she'll move to Southlake one day so her kids won't grow up stupid. She has three, two girls and a boy. Get this: she has three kids. She's twenty-seven. Penelope like tendencies? She's still pretty awesome, though.
For the record Jules: Plano West offers a quality education. Southlake Carroll offers football.
6). Valerie is twenty-five. Yes, Valerie is the one that had the baby. I hear it over and over again, and it's annoying. There are ten of us. One was bound to have a little momentary lapse in vaginal judgement. At least it was momentary. *coughcassandracough* She lives in Roanoke (near Keller), and teaches 10th grade English. She's not too hard to get along with, so we're cool. Her baby is kind of spoiled though. She went to college in Michigan so now she thinks 20 degrees is warm. I promise she's smarter than she looks.
7) Adam is twenty-three and he's a student at UT-Austin. He's pretty cool I guess. He's just kind of... prickly. You've got to peel him back like an onion, but once you do he can be alright. He has a weird personality. Obsessed with video games, plays those role playing games; I don't think I'd notice him if he weren't my brother. He's a nice guy, though.
8) Sally Kate is twenty-one and she's a rising senior at Baylor. She's pretty smart. Says she'll graduate with honors. She's been studying for the MCAT since she graduated high school, so hopefully she won't go crazy and choke when she takes it. She's staying with Dad and us in West Plano for the summer, but that hasn't stopped the studying. I swear I'm going to have to call an MCAT intervention on this girl.
9) It's me! Amanda! I'm nineteen; and God only knows what my family thinks about me. I'm a rising Sophomore at Austin College. I'm staying with my dad in West Plano this summer. I'm studying English, Spanish, and Library Science. Yup.
10) Clinton is eighteen. I think he's kind of a big deal. It's a little disappointing that his life revolves around baseball and not football, but he's in love with the game. Evidently, he's pretty good too. Everybody says he's got his head in the right place. That he's focused. I don't think staying focused is too hard. Girls don't exactly go into heat over baseball players at Plano West. He's a good brother though; and he's always got my back. I could count on him to knock out my boyfriend with that power swing of his if I needed him to.
Wow, that was a lot of writing; but there you have it. A review of my family as requested by Valerie. Yes we're a bunch of unstable gingers and toeheads. Do we love each other? A little bit.
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