Descriptive Essay On The Gilchrist Family

The Gilchrist Family Does your family get along? Do you have traditions or a way that you can come together, or is that only for the holidays. Some families are like that, not being able to see each other unless it is an emergency. For my family, though, things are quite different. We only have one actual “tradition” though. Every year for the past forty years, we gather to where the family was founded and spend +4 days together as a family. While most families around the world have family reunions, I always feel like ours is more significant for some reason. Many things have changed over the course of 40 years, but all that matters is that we're together, celebrating how far our family has come. I have a very extended family. It all started

Whether it’s as important as setting up or making the food, too something as simple as just showing up. Like I said before, for over 60 years my great grandmother was the backbone and ideal grandmother of our family. There are many stories I’ve heard about her being selfless, compassionate and willing to do anything for her family. After she died in June of 2011, the family knew somebody would have to try and follow in her footsteps. During family reunion, there are really two people who are really in charge, and that’s my dad and his cousin Alice. During the family reunion time, they both seem to do the most when it comes to the things like meetings and determining who’s coming down and when everything's going to be ready, etc. I remember when I was younger I asked my dad “Are you the oldest” because he always did so much during family reunion. He then told me he wasn’t the oldest, and that “you don’t have to be the oldest in the group to make the biggest impact” and that’s stuck with me for the longest

It has been going on for 40 years already, and it doesn’t see any risk of slowing down. Sure we have problems and drama that causes problems. For example, this year my cousin Lisa thinks we should go on another cruise instead of having the reunion in North Carolina. While some of my family thinks that it’s a good idea, claiming that they can’t always make it to the reunion in NC and it’s unfair to the family that lives out of state, others think that it's not a good idea, and it's unfair for the family that can't afford to go on the cruise, and for the elderly who can't get on the boat. My great aunt once told us that her late sister Dorothy’s dying wish was to keep the reunions going, and to keep your kids involved so they wouldn’t stop. Even though stuff like that happens, it's never going to be able to actually tear apart the family. While we are losing members of the family, were also gaining new ones. The future of our family is the babies and the kids, who one day will be planning the reunions and doing all of the things that the adults are doing now. These reunions have really shaped me as a person, and they have taught me to appreciate my family a whole lot more and the impact we all make on each other, which was the message they were going for when they started the reunions. “Family might be defined as a group of people who are related to one another, but it's much more than