About Me Part I.
I am a 33 year old single multi-racial woman who has no children. I have a huge Portuguese, African-American, French Canadian, Latin and everything eles family. The youngest of 11 children well really 12 if you count the one sister we unofficially adopted and anyone eles my parents let in. My mom has 17 brothers and sisters and they of course all have kids and my dad has 6 and they all have kids. Although, I do not know my Dad's side of the family (they live back east), my mom's side is huge and I have cousins, after cousins, after cousins. I have 40 nieces and nephews as of today, more coming I'm sure. My mom gave birth to me at age 42 in 1972, which by then my older brothers and sisters were old enough to be my parents and that gave me more than one set of parents. Some of my nieces and nephews were my same age so they are more like brothers and sisters instead of me being the aunt. Since I have no children of my own yet I tend to mother my younger nieces and nephews and it feels almost the same without the financial responsibility, well sometimes. My mother was raised catholic my father was raised baptist, although I was raised in a Quaker church by my dad. I choose to embrace the catholic faith in the end to my dad's dismay. Recently, I have been exploring the Kabalah studies as well, but nothing will replace my catholic roots and beliefs. I like baptist churches for the music but thats about it. I like to go to church and not feel judged in the catholic faith it is more come as you are and everyone is there for the faith not to see who's with who and who's wearing what, etc... I lvoe having a big family and not sure where I would be without them. We fight, spread gossip, drive our parents nutty and there is never a quiet moment but we love each other hard and if anything goes wrong we mold together and no one would ever know anyone was ever mad or was planning a life long vengence against each other. My mom raised us well with good values and respect and my dad gave us the value of hard work. Today I wonder how I can raise just one child on my own when I get there and I can't seem to imagine how they did it so well with 12+ of us running around being bad. Our Christmas's, Easter's, Thanksgiving, Haloweens and Birthdays were huge and filling. I thought we were rich we lived in one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city and everyone knew us everywhere. But when I look back we lived quite modestly, but my parents were miracle workers in feeding us, clothing us and making sure we had what we needed. M dad worked for an airline for about 40 years and my mom taught in the schools and worked at our elementary school until they both retired about 6 years ago.