MTS..That is pretty twisted...

 

Edit: I am the oldest out of three BTW.

 

Hey, us younger siblings have to show who's really in control!!

 

When my nephews and nieces do something snarky to one another, my brother goes into "parent know it all mode" and will say something along the lines of, "you all aren't doing anything. Trust me, I've experienced mean.  This aint nothing!"  or he'll say something like "there isn't anything you can do that your uncle has done and done better." 

My folks had planned on having me a few years later but apparently I wasn't having it. I do recall telling my Mom at age 4 that "if you have another kid, I'll STILL be the baby!". Good thing they didn't - I probably would have shoved it down the steps >:D

 

I tipped my brother's crib over when he was a baby, because I was so jealous.

Thats kid stuff.

 

 

Did I mention he was in it?

 

I was 5 years older, and bigger than my brother, but he fought like a demon. I can remember doing something to tick him off and having to run out of the kitchen because he was throwing a butcher knife at me. Good stuff. Yeah, we're bestest friends now!

My folks had planned on having me a few years later but apparently I wasn't having it. I do recall telling my Mom at age 4 that "if you have another kid, I'll STILL be the baby!". Good thing they didn't - I probably would have shoved it down the steps >:D

 

I tipped my brother's crib over when he was a baby, because I was so jealous.

Thats kid stuff. 

 

 

Did I mention he was in it?

 

I was 5 years older, and bigger than my brother, but he fought like a demon. I can remember doing something to tick him off and having to run out of the kitchen because he was throwing a butcher knife at me. Good stuff. Yeah, we're bestest friends now!

 

Yeah that's how it is.  My brother and I couldn't stand to be in the same room with each other in high school.  We rarely spoke.  It was so bad that people thought my cousin was my brothers, younger brother and I was the cousin, since physically they look more alike.  After his accident, we got really close.  So close, my father had to ask, "Who are you two and what did you do with my kids?"  LOL

 

Now were very close.  Now if only I could get rid of the skank-in-law!  >:D >:D >:D :whip:  The more physiological abusive I am, the harder she tries.

 

Just remember....

 

.....I'll f*ck your head up and make you pay for it for years to come.

 

Ooh a butcher knife? Nice. Worst I ever had thrown at me was hairbrush by my sister that barely missed my head and stuck in the wall.

 

My little brother was just uber annoying, he is 6 years younger than me so naturally we hated each other. I am just lucky that he was no where as creative as MTS. He started to like me when he discovered drinking and realized that I could buy beer.

Ooh a butcher knife? Nice. Worst I ever had thrown at me was hairbrush by my sister that barely missed my head and stuck in the wall.

 

My little brother was just uber annoying, he is 6 years younger than me so naturally we hated each other. I am just lucky that he was no where as creative vengeful, manipulating, vindictive and bitchy as MTS. He started to like me when he discovered drinking and realized that I could buy beer.

 

I fixed that for you.

I'm the oldest of 5 kids. 

How do you folks who are from large families feel about that experience?

Is 5 kids a big family?  Yeah, I guess it is.  Anyway, I suffered through 18 years and then got the hell out.  My 4 siblings are all pretty similar to one another and my parents so I think having them all under one roof works out for them.

Is 5 kids a big family?  Yeah, I guess it is.  Anyway, I suffered through 18 years and then got the hell out.  My 4 siblings are all pretty similar to one another and my parents so I think having them all under one roof works out for them.

Well coming from a family of 2 siblings (and dont think I didn't try my best to become an only child.), yes that is a lot.

 

Both of my parents are one of six siblings.  none of cousins are from families larger than four.  It just seems like large families you're all over each other.  There is no privacy.  Its very cramped.

Is 5 kids a big family?  Yeah, I guess it is.  Anyway, I suffered through 18 years and then got the hell out.  My 4 siblings are all pretty similar to one another and my parents so I think having them all under one roof works out for them.

Well coming from a family of 2 siblings (and dont think I didn't try my best to become an only child.), yes that is a lot.

 

Both of my parents are one of six siblings.  none of cousins are from families larger than four.  It just seems like large families you're all over each other.  There is no privacy.  Its very cramped.

 

You've tried to murder your siblings?  Sterilize your parents?

Is 5 kids a big family?  Yeah, I guess it is.  Anyway, I suffered through 18 years and then got the hell out.  My 4 siblings are all pretty similar to one another and my parents so I think having them all under one roof works out for them.

Well coming from a family of 2 siblings (and dont think I didn't try my best to become an only child.), yes that is a lot.

 

Both of my parents are one of six siblings.  none of cousins are from families larger than four.  It just seems like large families you're all over each other.  There is no privacy.  Its very cramped.

 

You've tried to murder your siblings?  Sterilize your parents?

 

I plead the fifth. 

How do you folks who are from large families feel about that experience?

 

Well as someone from a tiny family (just my folks and my older brother; no extended family - grandparents passed away) who is coupled with someone from a huge family (my partner has nine siblings most of whom have kids, some of those kids have kids, and his parents' families are large as well so there's a bazillion cousins, uncles, nieces/nephews) - the following sums up my feelings whenever we have get-togethers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iofIQTX7o#

How do you folks who are from large families feel about that experience?

 

Well as someone from a tiny family (just my folks and my older brother; no extended family - grandparents passed away) who is coupled with someone from a huge family (my partner has nine siblings most of whom have kids, some of those kids have kids, and his parents have large families as well so there's a bazillion cousins, uncles, nieces/nephews) - the following sums up my feelings whenever we have get-togethers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iofIQTX7o#

 

Totally understand.  I have 32 first cousins, so thats pretty much what it's like when we get together.  All but 3 have kids. 

 

Some of my cousins kids are here with me now, and it's funny to see them together as it reminds me of how we were back in the day.

That is a lot of cousins, my friend.  Let me guess, Catholic family?

That is a lot of cousins, my friend.  Let me guess, Catholic family?

 

one side catholic, one side baptist.  17 on the catholic side, 15 on the baptist.  It had been 16/15 then my uncle got married (he's only 9 years older than me) and bam, I have another cousin.  However, that is weird, because he is growing up with his second cousins.

That is a lot of cousins, my friend. Let me guess, Catholic family?

 

one side catholic, one side baptist. 17 on the catholic side, 15 on the baptist. It had been 16/15 then my uncle got married (he's only 9 years older than me) and bam, I have another cousin. However, that is weird, because he is growing up with his second cousins.

 

Were these all planned babies, or is this the product of not believing in contraception?

That is a lot of cousins, my friend.  Let me guess, Catholic family?

 

one side catholic, one side baptist.  17 on the catholic side, 15 on the baptist.  It had been 16/15 then my uncle got married (he's only 9 years older than me) and bam, I have another cousin.  However, that is weird, because he is growing up with his second cousins.

 

Were these all planned babies, or is this the product of not believing in contraception?

 

My parents each have 5 siblings. except for my mom/dad and my uncle, everyone has 3/4 kids.

 

All of my aunts/uncles are married so I'll assume the kids were planned, but there were some accidents, like me.  Nobody has two kids 11 months apart.  I'm sure my parents did plan to have me, just not to come so close behind my brother.

Christmas must be a sight.

Christmas must be a sight.

 

Any time we all get together it's a celebration.  I'm just lucky that both sides of my familiy get along.  all you have to do is tell one cousin or aunt/uncle, on either side of the family, and it's a party. 

 

The except is school sports.  It's been okay for years, but now that there are more kids are in high school and competing against one another, the intra family rivalries have started again.

 

Last year we had a little blow up with the kids between the kids that went to Glenville & Lincoln-West and the kids at Shaker and Heights, the later to be expected.  This year with more kids in high school it's going to get ugly again and we've agreed to have a family meeting to lay down the rules so the younger kids know how to act.  Although the rules are really for the parents. God knows we don't want to act like our parents. 

The high school rivalries get ugly when the family gets together?  Damn.  They play football?  Ohio's nothing if not for high school football.

The high school rivalries get ugly when the family gets together?  Damn.  They play football?  Ohio's nothing if not for high school football.

 

Actually many sports.  My moms family four out of the six families went to Lincoln-West, out of those some went to Max Hayes, Cleveland School of the Arts and the Executive Cooking School.  My moms older sisters family lives in Cleveland Hts. and we live in Shaker. 

 

My Dads family, two families live in the Glenville section, he has a sister that lives in CH, a brother in Shaker and a Sister in the Glendale section of Cleveland and those kids went to Kennedy and us in Shaker. 

 

Most of my male cousins at Lincoln west played soccer in fall and baseball in spring.  My female cousins played volleyball in fall and softball in summer.  We're PR, what do you expect.  lol

 

On the eastside the guys played football, basketball and ran track. The girls volleyball and basketball.

 

We never really interacted with the L-W kids but the kids at Shaker, Height sand Kennedy often played against each other in a sport.  Things would usually be great the start of the game/meet, then the families became enemies.  It would get ugly.  My grand parents - on both sides - were often caught in the middle.  They never knew where they should sit.  Should we sit in the heights section or the shaker section, decisions..decisions.

 

I'll never forget, this one game in '83 were my brother caught a pass to set up a field goal to tie a game against Heights.  On the ensuing kick off my cousin at heights, steam rolled, my cousin at shaker.  They practically came to blows on the field. that very same year, at a basketball game, with four cousins on the court (2 shaker and 2 heights) they almost got into a brawl.  The girls basketball games were even worse, since my cousins at heights were 6'0" and 6'4" and they had another girl who was over 6'0" and they would just tower over other teams.  They would beat shaker so badly.  We couldn't beat Heights at any sport. 

 

Then the one and only year I decided to participate in a sport, my cousin (at heights) - who encouraged me to participate - was all extremely helpful in teaching me to high jump.  All winter he helped me learn technique and form, etc.  He was cool and would even call me after a meet to see how I did, right up until our meet against heights. Heights had the best track team in the state for years and as soon as the meet started he became one of those arrogant Heights kids and then stabbed me in the back.  It was like he didn't even know me.  He just busted out with all this smack.  He, my other cousin and the other heights kid talked so much shit I could barely perform.  He psychologically f*cked my head up.  We were just yelling at each other in Spanish and the other kids who were high jumping were like "what is going on here?".  They were petrified.  My cousin (shaker) had to come over and tell me ignore them and just concentrate on what I was doing.  I wanted to smack my cousins (heights) in the face with my spikes.  He treated me like garbage all the way to the state meet.

 

Our parents were even worse, the yelling the screaming the "get him's", it was just a hot mess.

 

This past spring at the Jessie Owens city meet my cousin from L-W and Glenville got into.  One of the kids at glenville disqualified in an event for bumping/shoving one of the kids at L-W and my cousins got into a huge argument.  and my cousin for LW called the kids at Glenville cheaters and poachers.  So since we don't want any more of those "situations" we need to dust off the rules from the 80s so that everyone is on the same page.

Sports is serious business.

Sports is serious business.

 

I know, my brother and cousin are out in the yard telling their sons how to play their positions.  It's ridiculous.  ::)

 

My brother wouldn't let me nephew come to NYC this week because he didn't want him to miss football practice.

I would've murdered my parents in their sleep if they kept me from going to NYC so I wouldn't miss some school related thing.

I would've murdered my parents in their sleep if they kept me from going to NYC so I wouldn't miss some school related thing.

My nephew really couldn't complain, considering he was in NYC for almost 3 weeks in July.

I would've murdered my parents in their sleep if they kept me from going to NYC so I wouldn't miss some school related thing.

 

That says so much.

I would've murdered my parents in their sleep if they kept me from going to NYC so I wouldn't miss some school related thing.

 

That says so much.

 

Nothing says "i love you" like a murder, Betty Broderick style!  LOL

I wouldn't really have murdered my parents.  It's good that I was never put in the stituation, though.  :lol:

I wouldn't really have murdered my parents.  It's good that I was never put in the stituation, though.  :lol:

 

Its not like NYC is going anywhere.  They can come to NYC at any time.

 

Coming from a background where a trip to NYC would've been viewed as a huge, once in a lifetime opportunity, you better believe there would've been friction between me and whomever tried to stand in my way.

Moonlight Menendez

So are you just going to keep following me around now that I educated you in the ways of COBRA and the pitfalls of modern medical insurance?  Or is it just my rugged good looks?

No, I'm intrigued by your whinning about everything you think is wrong with the world, and how you want everything handed to you like a spoiled child.  You start posting in threads I have been posing in all along, and now I'm accused of following you around?

 

First-Borns

More conscientious, ambitious and aggressive than their younger siblings, first-borns are over-represented at Harvard and Yale as well as disciplines requiring higher education such as medicine, engineering or law. Every astronaut to go into space has been either the oldest child in his or her family or the eldest boy. And throughout history -- even when large families were the norm -- more than half of all Nobel Prize winners and U.S. presidents have been first-born.

 

Hah!  Living stereotype right here, I guess.  Firstborn.  Law school, check.  Conscientious (or at least I like to think so), ambitious, and aggressive.  Check, check, check--preferably all with the prefix "pay-." 8-) :evil:

 

My only sister, however, does not fit the description of a typical "youngest child," so I guess we bat 1-for-2 on those trends as a family.

No, I'm intrigued by your whinning about everything you think is wrong with the world, and how you want everything handed to you like a spoiled child. You start posting in threads I have been posing in all along, and now I'm accused of following you around?

 

 

Oh?  What exactly am I asking be handed to me? 

 

And yes, you're certainly following me around.  That's clear for anyone to see.  Little responses here and there to posts that I've made in response to people not yourself.  It's like you can't let one of my posts go without injecting yourself into the conversation.  Conversations that have nothing to do with you, by the way.

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