My Family

My family can be a family at times but sometimes separated. I have a family of three: my dad, my mom, and me. We eat dinner as a family almost every single night, although my mom comes to dinner late because she has to pray before she eats. She usually comes when I'm half done with my dinner and I'm always the first one to finish dinner and go do something else. I don't talk much at the dinner table, I just eat. I don't usually start up conversations, it's usually my dad.

On weekends we don't really do much as a family. My mom has to do work and my dad goes out to buy groceries from Chinese supermarkets. My dad is like the typical mom. He comes to every single one of my soccer games, which my mom rarely does. He used to drive me to school every morning, and he was the one picking me up from places. My mom is usually too busy with her work and my dad cooks more than my mom, so the role of mother and father is sort of switched in my family......or more like my dad does things usual moms do in addition to what usual dads do.

I don't spend much time with my family because I'm usually doing homework or hanging out with friends or playing sports. When I was 11 or 12, we spent more time together as a family, going to places like Stone Mountain and just doing things on weekends. But since now I'm older and have more stuff to do and because my mom has a job, our family hasn't really been a family like we used to be.