i was born on april 8, 1992 in massachusetts into a nice little family with a mom, a dad, and two older brothers.
my mom: she grew up in the suburbs of massachusetts where she was the oldest of six children in a catholic family. her name is sharon, and because she is awesome, she hyphenated when she got married. for her undergrad, she went to an art school in new bedford that no longer exists and later got her masters from cranbrook academy of the arts in environmental sculpture. she has red hair and is incredibly beautiful. she is kind, smart and loves to read and take notes (i've rummaged through a lot of her old books in our basement). a friend called me out the other day for never talking about my mom, but the truth is, when she was 37 (i was 3) she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and though she fought like the mama bear she passed, she died on november 2, 1997. though i remember a lot about her from our early days at the mall with my nana while my brothers were in school, a lot of what i know about her life before she was a mom comes from my dad, my nana, and her 4 sisters and 1 brother. like the time she painted snoopy and woodstock on my grandfathers car. or how she met my father while they were both working at the foxborough company one summer when they were 18 (and got married after a quick twelve years of dating at age 30). and how she was an amazing women.
my dad: he also grew up in the suburbs of massachusetts and was in the middle of a catholic family with six kids. he got kicked off the football team in high school after taking his senior portrait lying down on the bench. he used to have long blonde hair and now he has short brownhair and is quite conservative politically. he has worked in computer science since graduating high school and took a few classes at northeastern along the way, but never finished his ba. he made us eat all natural and organic food before whole foods was a thing (i don't think i ate a single grain of refined sugar until i was 6) and is a workout and healthy eating fanatic. he doesn't drink because "have you seen how people act when they have alcohol?" and works out for at least 2 hours almost every day. he loves baseball, both watching the red sox (but not the yell at the team "we" language stuff) and coaching adolescents in his free time. he's the kind of guy that will pay for a kid on his team to take the sats and drive him there at 7 am on a saturday but usually only goes to mass if i'm home. he is thoughtful, considerate, and practical and enjoys letting his children make there own mistakes, only intervening when they ask for help. he is incredibly intelligent both in useful information as well as the completely useless. he's the smartest and best guy i know.
the oldest: my brother has blonde hair and blue eyes and girls love him. he is athletic but his version of healthy eating is gatorade and buffalo chicken. doesn't drink any soda. is 26 and a townie. he is an amazing dad to his 6-year-old daughter (gmb) and loves being "the boss." if you think you can convince him that he's wrong, think again. he loves football, baseball and played both in high school and now enjoyes yelling at the tv when the patriots are flopping. he has a deep love for taylor swift, superheros (especially iron man) and velcro wallets.
the middle child: this brother of mine has red hair (that has gotten a little blondish lately) and is colorblind. he used to be really quiet, skinny and gangly, until he moved away to umass boston when he started speaking up a lot more and turned out to be quite funny. he's not afraid to call me out (in a respectful way) when i am being a total brat (which can happen) and is currently putting his history degree to good use by following in my dads footsteps of working in the computer world at harvard and attending grad school there as well. he is 24 and loves living in boston and being independent as well as the occasional hard cider.
the youngest and the only girl: i am 3 and 4 years younger than both of my brothers and my name doesn't start with a b like theirs do. because of my family standing, i became very accustomed to things being my way and have had a tendency to get very upset when they don't. its something i've been working on for the past twenty-one years. i love pink, brunch (have i mentioned this) and have a shopping addiction that my father constantly reminds me to be careful of. i struggle on the daily to authentically follow Christ in the way i am called to, but i'm working on it. i suck at driving and love living in the city where i can uber and walk all i want without getting strange looks. i strive to show love to every person i interact with.
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