First off, the whole family is a little crazy. It seems like we fight more than we do anything. We scream, we yell, we argue. We’re not saying we’re the picture perfect family-- all we’re saying is that we have the same blood line, so we’re family.

Forewarning, do not ever actually call us crazy. We are completely aware that we are crazy and we understand that we don’t necessarily have the normal family values, but we definitely don’t need anyone else telling us that.

We take care of each other, through the good and the bad. We may fight constantly, but we are united. We have to be; after all, we're the only ones who have been there for each other through everything. When one of us is hurting the other is there asking what they need to do to make it better. We never go into any situation on our own.

We’ve been on our own a lot, so we’re used to it. We make this a family. We don’t need a mom and a dad to make the family whole because we do it on our own. It’s always just been us looking out for each other.

There is nothing wrong with the way we do things. It may be a little backwards and confusing, but we do it nonetheless. Do not try to tell us what we should do. We have been dealt a hand that no child should ever have been dealt. We do things our own way and no one can say anything about it because they didn’t deal with it; we did.

We never fail to have our knock down, drag out fights. I mean, every family has them, but ours are something to go down in the books. It doesn’t matter though, because no matter how mad we are at each other, we will be standing right next to each other when something bad happens.

And that’s the thing-- something bad always happens. No matter what, we are always on our toes. We can be having the time of our lives one second and the next our whole life can come crashing down. It's happened before and it will happen again. We just don't let things get too good because we are well aware that with the highs come the extreme lows.

We can really throw ‘em back. We have been handling adult situations way longer than we should have been and that has definitely had an impact on our alcohol consumption. We don’t try to see how much we can handle; it is just like our bodies know. The good thing about this is that we're always the life of the party!

No matter what though, we are a family. We didn't choose this life; it just happened to fall in our laps. We can’t change that, so the best thing we can do is just try our best to figure it out together.