Day 3- Your Parents

My mom is Sharon Cox and she was born in Burnside on November 22.

I don't know a whole lot about her childhood other than the few things she's told me. I know her dad was a truck driver and her mom worked two jobs so she could have enough money to feed my mom and her siblings (6 in all).

She was popular in high school and almost got married once before meeting my dad who had already been married and divorced once. She's been a great mom and is more outspoken than most parents I've been around. She makes perverted jokes all the time and her friends send her texts pictures of penis's :l it's weird and awkward, but yeah,ha.

She loves Bingo and told me once that she doesn't go to win money, she just goes to have fun. She has a gay best friend that calls her Cher and wants her to go to a Lady Gaga concert with him and I swear they would be soul mates if he wasn't gay. She also really likes Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse and Tinkerbell. Don't ask me why. She's usually fun and friendly and has tons of friends from her work and Bingo. Sometimes we don't get along, but I think that's to be excepted since every teen argues with their parents at least once, well excluding Cody he's never argued with his.

She is in love with Cody and keeps telling me to not mess anything up. Seriously, she has told me so many times how sweet he is and how lucky I am to be with him. Which would be okay if she didn't also add that I better not mess it up.

She has a love/hate relationship with my dad. She let's him do his laundry here, feeds him and sometimes lets him stays the night, but there's only so much of him he can take. They argued a lot when I was little, but that has died down a lot now that their separated.

She hates to clean and hardly ever does and is always losing things. There's been so many times where she was late for work just because she couldn't find her keys. She always tries to pay the bills, but sometimes has to choose one over another. We've went without water, cable and electric before. There's hardly ever any food in the house because my mom hasn't been grocery shopping in quite a while. Obviously she's bad with money and spends way too much on things other than bills. She's also a hard worker though and at times has taken two jobs so she could pay the bills.

Obviously she's not perfect, but she has tried her best to raise us right and always had so much patience with both of us. So, she is the best mom I could ever ask for :)



My dad is Douglas Canada and he was born in Reading, Ohio on May 19th.

He was raised in Ohio and his dad worked on the railroad. He has two siblings and had a much more comfortable childhood than my mom.

He was also popular in high school and was on the basketball team. He has been engaged three times; first time the lady left him for someone else, second he got married, but that ended in divorce but not before adopting two kids and having one and third time was with mom which lead to them separating. So, that means I have one step sister, two step adopted siblings and one brother. Obviously marriage was not the best idea for him.

He's a good dad, but at times can be irritating. He always has to buy me food even when I say no. I can tell him that I just ate and don't feel like eating, but he'll still go get chicken nuggets and a frosty for me. He used to do this all the time after school when I told him I wasn't hungry he would still go to McDonalds and buy me something to eat. This is probably one of the reasons I have a weight problem.

He also likes to blame my mom for most things and started telling me that mom was going to send him to jail over child support and he would die because he couldn't get his medicine when I was 12. Obviously, this never happened since they never got divorced, but he still kept talking about it and kept blaming mom for everything. I don't have dental insurance because he doesn't want to pay the extra to put me on his and moms job doesn't offer any. He lies a lot, he'll tell me negative things my mom and my brother and his girlfriend said about me that they never said. He also used to compare me to much smaller women and ask me if that's what I wanted to look like once I lost weight and things like that. This wouldn't of been as horrible if he hadn't started when I was around 12 years old.


Now that I'm older I can get along with him a lot better since I understand that his medicine and hitting his head while having a seizure a few times has most likely made him a bit different than he used to be. Mom says he has changed a lot since he was younger, so I guess that explanation is true. He is a good dad at times though and usually gives me money if I really need it. He also doesn't mind to drive us anywhere when we can't get a car so I do appreciate that.He's also a hard worker but at the time is on disability because he has kind of disease in his hand which makes it to where he can't open them fully. He had surgery on them before, but it seems the doctor only created more scar tissue and made it worse. He also really likes sports and makes it his job to watch the news every night,ha. Plus he bought me my cake this year!

I do love him though and am getting better at being patient with him, so my relationship with him is a lot better now than it was.