Is your family close?
By knicnax
@knicnax (2233)
Philippines
September 21, 2012 8:16am CST
Hi everyone. I'm in a really happy mood about my family today.
On the way to work, I took a cab, and the cab driver and I chatted about a lot of things. The last topic we talked about was family. I was telling him how happy my family was, and that I'm really amazed at how my parents raised us kids.
We're 6 in the family. My parents, and 4 children. I'm the eldest of the 4.
My family regularly goes on vacations, and we enjoy each others' company. When we go on vacations, we make it a point to have at least one that would only be us 6. We stay in one hotel room, in one room. We just spread comforters on the carpet and sleep there. My parents along with my youngest brother (8 years old), sleep on the bed.
When we get to the hotel room, we fix our stuff, and then we play hide and seek. It's really funny, and super FUN! Imagine playing hide and seek in a small room! haha!
We also like going out for lunch or dinner after we attend mass.
My parents are awesome! They reared us so well, otherwise, we wouldn't be this happy. Of course we have the usual fights. My mother and I bicker a lot, and my father is the silent type, but they raised us well, and we enjoy each other!
Also, my siblings and I don't mind going to the mall together. I remember I went to the mall with my brother and his friends. We ate pizza. I wanted to go bowling and his friends wanted to play billiards (We were originally supposed to watch a movie but the movie house was so full). My brother decided to play bowling with me, and just went to his friends once in a while (the billiard tables were just behind our bowling lane).
My sister and I, we don't share stories about our love lives too much, but we do share a lot of stories. We are opposites and yet we love being together.
My youngest brother, we share a special bond, and we bond through games. He's a smart kid who asks a lot of questions, and I try my best to explain everything to him. I even gave him a talk about x and y chromosomes. Haha!
So how about you, are you and your family close? what activities do you do to keep your family close?
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8 responses
@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
12 Oct 12
When I reached to an age of 30 I am mature enough to handle things with regards to our family. Being the eldest of the 9 siblings, I know now how to draw close each member of the family. They are lucky enough because I am more concern to their welfare not only mine.
Since then, we often get together and we become more closer compared when I was still young. I was selfish before. I want them to give me more attention than to my other siblings.
Since then, we often get together and we become more closer compared when I was still young. I was selfish before. I want them to give me more attention than to my other siblings.1 person likes this
@penrockerchic (1903)
• Philippines
21 Sep 12
That's pretty awesome knicnax! I do have a very close knit family. There's just four of us and we're pretty close. When we were younger, I really enjoyed our family vacation, mostly during the summer, and we usually visit our grandparents and cousins at that time. But now that we're older, things have changed when it comes to these vacations. I do make it a point though to spend my time with them especially during the holidays. I make sure that I still visit my parents and my brother for at least once a month. There's always some thing that I bring home, lots of food and stuff for the whole family. I usually cook for them when I'm at home but mostly they're experiments. And I get to have my brother help me with the cooking. 
Now that my brother and I are both working, and my dad too, our schedules are not that easy to manage. They have weekdays for their day off, and sometimes, I only get Sundays for my off.
This coming December, my brother and I are planning to have a family outing, all expenses paid by us. I hope we can push it through.
Good thing about our family is that through thick and thin, we have stayed together. We support each other and we never gave up. Our parents raised us well, both of us finishing college and now working as professionals. I'm happy 'cause I know that they are proud of us and I am proud to be a part of this family as well. 
Now that my brother and I are both working, and my dad too, our schedules are not that easy to manage. They have weekdays for their day off, and sometimes, I only get Sundays for my off.
This coming December, my brother and I are planning to have a family outing, all expenses paid by us. I hope we can push it through.
Good thing about our family is that through thick and thin, we have stayed together. We support each other and we never gave up. Our parents raised us well, both of us finishing college and now working as professionals. I'm happy 'cause I know that they are proud of us and I am proud to be a part of this family as well. 1 person likes this
@knicnax (2233)
• Philippines
21 Sep 12
That's great!
I do hope that you get to go to your vacation this December. We have one planned this October but I'm tagging my boyfriend along. Things are getting pretty serious between us and I want him to be part of our family. My parents agreed! Oh I'm so excited!
It's nice that you cook for them. In our family my mum does all the cooking. Even if my sister and I are already working, we still live with our parents, so we get to spend a lot of time together.
@penrockerchic (1903)
• Philippines
21 Sep 12
Good to hear that! Only my brother lives with them since he works near our place, and I'm the only one a few miles away from them. I miss them and I wish that I could spend more time with them, but sometimes, my work takes up too much of my time, and I only get to see them once or twice a month.
I hope you'll have a great time on your next vacation, with bf tagging along. 
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@randylovesdar (4932)
• United States
21 Sep 12
That is great that knicnax that you are a very close family. My brother and I are very close. Randy has a serious foot condition and my brother had asked if he could live with us so he can help us out. My brother pays all the bills (except rent) and he also helps with the household chores (he does not feel comfortable doing our laundry so I do mine and Randy's laundry). My sister and I got along until she had married a horrible man and is now divorce. My sister acts like a big shot and we do not speak with each other. When I was living with my parents things got rough because my mother expected me to help her pay bills which had left Randy and I struggling. My mother told us we could live with them until we got on our feet again, but my mother had figured two extra bodies meant extra money. My parents spend money like it was going out of style and are in debt. I am glad that you are a close knit family.
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@knicnax (2233)
• Philippines
24 Sep 12
My mum also thinks the same way, and it's a little difficult to live on my own because when I get an increase in my salary, I tell her, and I know she's expecting me to give her more money. I don't complain because I don't want to disappoint her, and she's really proud that I'm giving her money. Though, the consequence is, I just have enough. She scolds me for eating out in fancy restaurants, but that's the only reward I give myself for working hard.
@verolop29 (1096)
• United States
21 Sep 12
Wow you do have an incredible familia! You must be a great person to have a brother that u actually like playing with!
I have 2 brothers and some other brothers I have yet to meet and 5 sisters and we r not close at all. I understand y they don't talk to me but they should get over it. U see 17 years ago I killed my stepdad bcuz he did bad things to me for many years and no one listened not even my mom so I ended it. I didn't want him to yet any of my little bro or sister and so now they hate me for doing that. I don't blame them for feeling that way but they should try to understand that I did this for their protection...but they don't see it that way.
Our cousin went through the same thing and worse but they all pretended it never happened. They had their papa but we didn't and they lived very good life.
Do I wish it were different? Yeah I do but I will die before that happens to my girls and i would do things differently the right way.
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@knicnax (2233)
• Philippines
24 Sep 12
Woah! I do hope you're okay. I can't imagine the trauma and hurt that your step dad caused. It's sad that some people wouldn't believe a family member, being blinded by someone not even your blood relative.
I hope that after 17 years, everything will be fixed. Maybe you need to talk to them more?
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
24 Sep 12
Hi,
My family is very small. We have only son. So we are only three family members. Now my son is living separately from us due to his job. But we are very close to each other. We are always care for each other. We are always supporting, caring and loving to our son. And luckily our son is also very kind. He always come to meet us wheneer he get time and we have lots of fun together when he is with us. He cares very much for us. We are proud of my son. Thus we have a closed and happy family.
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@barood4money (376)
• India
12 Oct 12
I love my family very much. Its true that we are not much friendly, but still we share and update each other. Every one is busy with their own schedule, but we still get time to have lunch and dinner together..
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@sweetloveforeve (13106)
• Portugal
21 Sep 12
your family seems amazing^^ im very happy that you all live happy together. me and my family we are close too but sadly my parents have a complicated life. they spend all day working in a restaurant. so i just see them at night. only on saturday we spend time together. but the small time we spend together we spend it doing fun things. like shopping, have dinner together or watch a movie^^ i love them a lot and i wish we could spend more time together. but sadly our life is complicated :(
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@NailTech (6874)
• United States
21 Sep 12
It would be better if my family wasn't like they are sometimes. One of them likes to be bossy, blame me for everything, start arguments over nothing, etc. Other one just likes watching TV 90% of the time I see him, and the other one is either sick, too deaf to have a full conversation with, or had drinking problems before and it wasn't always so good with him either int he past.
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