Personal Narrative: My Mom Served In The United States Army

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My mom served in the United States Army for four years . She was stationed in Fort drum New York she had been to Afghanistan and many other places. She surprises when she came home for the military, being in there for more than four years she came home Spring break 2011. At the time me and three other siblings were living with our grandparents in Gwinnett County Georgia. We were lived with our grandparents for eight years while are mother was deployed .One day my mom came to pick us up from my grandparents house , she didn't tell us what we were going but we just got in the car and just started going .my mother drove us all the way to Douglasville where we saw her new house. When we got to the new house we were so shocked everything was so nice and so clean it was like walking into a dream house . …show more content…

we went in every room in the house just to see what my mom did to the place . Our first night being there we had to get groceries so my mom took us to Kroger and we bought so much food it was ridiculous we had like three carts full of groceries and necessary household items. My favorite part about going to the store was my mom let me check out all the groceries and bag them. A couple of weekends go by and we're starting to stay more and more with her mother and my mom asked us if we wanted to live with her we of course said yes because we love her mother and we didn't want to leave her again so we moved in with are mom .this was also around my birthday so my mom asked if we wanted to have a birthday party because me and my sister were A year and three days apart. So me and my sister decided the birthday party and invite some friends from school. At the party we had cake ice cream pizza drinks music. Dance competitions sing offs

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