Parents' Weekend

[x_penance]

Parents' Weekend is this weekend. For those who are new, it is the open day where family can come and talk to the teachers and see how their children are going. Like the Parent-Teacher Night, only for the whole weekend.

I know many people here do not have the blood family - I am one of them now. But I was thinking. Family is more than the people whose genetics we are sharing; it is about those people who take a certain place in our hearts, who fill the role of family, even without the genetic connection. So I wanted to perhaps talk about that.

Who in your life do you consider family?

Comments

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

That's kinda an interesting thing to think about. I mean, I call my dad my dad, but he's my stepdad really, but he's the only dad I had (barring like any weird potential bio-dadness from Wade) and I get along with him better than I get along with my mom, but I totally get along with my mom's folks like whoa, and my dad's folks died before I was born.

[x-staffofone.livejournal.com]

Is that time of the year again? Huh.

[x-squirrel.livejournal.com]

A lot of my friends are like family to me. But I admit I still really do want my Dad to come around, but I don't think that's going to happen anymore.

So family really is whoever you're close to and for me that's really most everyone here.

[x-meggan.livejournal.com]

Even if they're not blood family, it's the people that love you and are there for you.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

[Voice to Text]

My dad, but he died. I have a mom, somewhere. Which, duh, takes two to make a kid, but I have no idea who or where she is. My dad never said and no one was able to find out when they went through his stuff trying to find me a guardian after he died.

I would assume that since he's Irish-Catholic, he has a big family, but again...no idea. I never knew anyone from his family. So...my family is just me.

[x-bamf.livejournal.com]

Family is what you make it, I find. Of course, the only blood family I am on speaking terms with is my half-sister who is no longer here, so adoption is really my only way to have it.

[x-scorpion.livejournal.com]

I normally don't respond to crap like this, but what he said. --^

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Carmilla Black, poisonous on the outside, full of nougat (but poisonous nougat) on the inside.

[x-scorpion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love you too. Except for the whole raging bitch thing.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I could just pinch your little cheeks. If I did not think you would bite me.

[x-scorpion.livejournal.com]

Biting is so middle school. I have better ways to deal with insane French people violating my personal space.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

True, and I am fairly certain I would not want to vomit up my intestines, because I enjoy being able to do things such as eat food and also be alive.

[x-scorpion.livejournal.com]

See? You CAN be taught!

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Cammie, I am awful, not stupid.

[x-artie.livejournal.com]

I don't.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Do I need to smack you with a newspaper?

[x-artie.livejournal.com]

No.

But, as Yvette asked, I don't have anyone here, at the mansion, that I consider family.

And before you point out that there's Alison, have you seen the mess she's still in these days? I think sometimes, she's even allowed to use metal cuterly, instead of plastic. Scott's still in LA...

Who exactly am I supposed to consider family here?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

She said who in your life, not who at the mansion, do we need to remand you to remedial reading?

[x-artie.livejournal.com]

I no longer consider certain people outside the mansion family, either. Family doesn't behave like that.