Fav Uncle/auntie Contest

Hi ,I would say it is my uncle Jim .We did a lot together when I was a kid .He and I use to go fishing on the lake front all night long. We built a camp fire from small sticks and what ever we could find . Showed me how I could catch a fish with just a hook and a string .We caught some fish and we cooked them right there on the fire .Man to me it taste so good even though there where no salt or pepper on it .When we where done eating he showed me how to widdle out a frog out of a peice of drift wood .It looked so cool .I never thought a day of fishing could be so much fun .

So many nice things to read about... You know my big brother is really good to my kids. He always buys them nice things and always plays with them unlike my wife's side.

Whenever he comes over or calls my daughter loves it and is in her glory... and that is one thing that means a lot to me as I know it will always be a good memory for them both..


DrC

My fav.was my Aunt Jess & Uncle Jack ,they were like my second parents .they had 3 boys , they treated me like the daughter they didn't have at the time . They took me to the zoo , to amusement parks , out to dinner , bowling ,we did everything as a big happy family,when I was young , then I grew up & got married , they had a daughter ,by then & I had married & moved out of state . They have both passed away but... the memories will always be with me . Thanks for the contests ! Good Luck everyone !
babsy47

My favorite Aunt would have to be my Aunt Carol. When I was about 8 she was the girl that lived next door and use to babysit me and my brother and sister. My Uncle Mike came down from Kitchener to visit one year and met her and they have been together ever since. Before she was my Aunt though she was the coolest babysiter. She would let us stay up late, and spoil us with junk food. She would take us out to movies and on trips. She was the best babysiter, and now is the coolest Aunt anyone could ask for.


Have an awesome day all,

Treehug

My favourite unt was unt Tommaso , when i was child he teached me fishing and we always went at the river near my home togheter ans spent lot of time in that faboulous contest!!!

my uncle author was my favorite .....he was fun. he would take my sister and i to get candy anytime we visited my grandma and papa in virginia.

Hi

Boy this is a tough one for me because all my aunts and uncles are
great. If I had to choose I would have to say My uncle Herb. He has passed away now but when he was alive he always made me feel so
special. He would do anything for me and I the same for him. I think
about him every day and sure miss him!

My favorite was my Aunt Val (I was named after her). She was the matriach I guess you could call it about keeping the family in touch and connected. She always helped out anyone in the family if they needed it. She was a school teacher for years. She was beautiful, fun and strict but very warm and caring. I was sorry she died last year but she suffered for 4 years after having triple pneumonia and had to use an oxygen tank everywhere she went.

She is missed .

Mine has to be my uncle. He was my dad's older brother, he's really nice, funny and he used to give me money LOL He had a daughter which is my older cousin, but he treated me just the same. The sad thing is that he passed away when I was 14 years old I miss him sometimes, but I know he's in a better place now.

I, too, had trouble picking just one aunt or uncle, so guess what I did? I used a tupper ware bowl like Orange Crush does!!!

I drew one of my father's sisters, Aunt Fats. When we are in a group and I call her that, people always do a double-take as if I were being rude. But it is what we have always called her and anything else doesn't feel natural. She takes no offense as it seems natural to her as well.

I love her and owe her so much. She is the person most responsible for me being the first of any generation on either side of the family to go to college. Since I did, every younger cousin coming along also went to college, since they knew then that it was not just an impossible dream. My younger sisters and brother also did.

Some of them have become so successful that they have achieved some degree of fame. When traced back, I think we owe most all of that to Aunt Fats telling me over and over when I asked , as a small child, that yes, it WAS possible that I could "grow up and go to college".

Aunt Fats never had an opportunity, herself, to go to college. Finances. I do not have a rich family background as far as money goes, but I sure do as far as the more important VALUES and ETHICS goes.

Aunt Fats lived next door and I visited her daily. We all ran in and out of each other's houses as if they were both "home".

I never saw Aunt Fat's without a book open in her hand, even if she was working with the other hand, which she usually was. The same is true of my father, by the way, and I always tried to imitate them, my heros.

I think that is why I knew how to read books before I was old enough to start school.

For all those reasons and more, I love and thank Aunt Fats.

royalblush, from a royal background even if it was poor by $$ standards

that was Uncle Bill

My Aunt Sharon died last summer, unexpectedly, and she was fairly young, only 57. Sharon was amazing. She's my mom's younger sister, and she never did get married or have any kids.

When she was in her early 30's, she was working as a bookkeeper for a dep't store here in Tulsa. They were going to transfer her to another store location in Wichita, Kansas, so she had to go up to Wichita one day to look for an apartment. She was driving by herself, and something happened on her way out of town - and it changed her life forever. We were told at first that she'd had a car accident and was OK but she was in the hospital, but by the time we got there, they had figured out that she had actually had a major STROKE! And she was not OK.

She was paralyzed on her whole right side from then on. They didn't expect her to be able to walk again, but eventually, she did. First with a walker, then with a cane, but she walked. It took her an awful long time to get anywhere, but she walked.

I never knew anyone that young could have a stroke. She was younger when she had it than I am now! No one ever understood why it happened.
She was always a little crazy, and after the stroke, I'm sure she was a little more so, but it didn't really seem to affect her much mentally like strokes sometimes do people.

She was on disability after that, so she didn't work anymore, but she was so determined and so stubborn and would not let this ruin her life. She ended up going to college and finally graduated with a bachelors degree in sociology. She was in college at the same time I was, and she was so thrilled about it. I don't know how she did it, because you know how much walking there is to do when you go to school on a big university campus! To get herself enrolled and schedule classes and buy all her books and then getting to the classes every day -- she amazed us all when she did that.

She did end up working for awhile as a social worker in Tulsa, but mostly, she did EXTREME volunteer work. Extreme, in that it required more of her than most fulltime jobs would, and that it took more of a toll on her than any job ever should. She volunteered as a hospice worker - people who deal with the families of terminally ill patients (as well as the patients themselves too). Hospice usually doesn't come in until the final stages of a dying person's life, so everything about it is always just heart-wrenching and very demanding, physically and especially emotionally. It's impossible not to get personally attached to the people you're helping, even though you know for a fact that they will die very soon. She put all she had into it, and sometimes, it seemed like it was too much.

And she lived on a small farm, all by herself, so she did everything herself - feeding the animals (goats and chickens and rabbits mostly) - all the outdoor work -- everything that needed doing she did, all with the use of only one side of her body.

When she died, she left everything she had to me. Unfortunately, Sharon didn't really have anything! She rented her home and was still paying off her little car etc., so nothing at all of her own really! But it was a touching gesture. She had other nieces and nephews besides me, but I'm the only one who hasn't gotten married yet, and she never got married herself, and I guess she felt a special connection with me or something like that. But it was always that way. Now I feel like I was usually too busy or whatever for her, and feel bad about not spending more time with her.

Sure was a shock when she died. Despite the stroke, she was still in good health, and no one in our family has ever died that young - they said it was of natural causes - which doesn't really make sense to me.
She was my mom's only sister, and I know she really misses her too. She was really funny. I keep having dreams with her in them, so I kind of feel like I've seen her recently, but ... not quite.
Well, I could go on and on about her, but I guess I already have! SO thanks once again for the contest!
sunspun

Aunt Marie is my favorite Aunt. She was my Moms sister just a couple years older than Mom. She never treated me as an adult figure with athority. She treated me as a close friend. Aunt Marie would talk to me about the things in life that Moms back then just would never talk about to their Daughters. She was there to answer every question I had from about being a woman to getting through those tuff boyfriend break-up years. She never spared me either , regardless of the pain. She always told me the truth. She always said " a lot of stuff in life is painful and you will grow to be a better person because of it." To this day I'm glad she was blunt and honest with me. She has truly made me into the caring , generous and helpful person I am today. My Aunt Marie passed away when I was 7 months pregnant with my first and my Mom passed away 1 month after that. They both had Cancer. I miss them both sooooo much , but I know they both seen me have and raise my son from up above. I will always be there for my son for anything and everything just like my Aunt Marie was there for me.

I love and miss you Mom and Aunt Marie I turned out good thanks to the both of you.

niecey814

Mine would be my Uncle Joe from Denver Colorado

Thats why im such a big Denver Bronco Fan


good luck crushers


mojojds

Has to be my great uncle Ernie, he is 93 now so he has been around forever. He also has the gambling gene and trots off to bingo everyday, he still drives and lives in his own home. he always has a present for his great great nieces and nephews when they call in (ok so a packet of tissues isn't really a great present but it is the thought that counts) but he is just a very caring and wonderful person