Blossie Mae Wright- Blossie Mae Wright was my mother. She was a very nurturing mother to her 11 children. She worked hard as a store clerk the majority of her life. She always made me feel special all the time she had been on this earth. She made sure I had everything I needed as a little girl. Even though she had a lot of children, she would find the time to read books to us sometimes. When I went to school in the mornings she would get up early and braid our hair. She would give all her children hot breakfast before we went to school. She would always say that she didn’t want her children to be in a classroom hungry. I thought that made her a good mother worrying about if her children were hungry or not. She loved all her children equally. Even when I graduated from high school, she played an important role in helping me choose a college that was not far from home. I didn’t want to be far off so I went to a university that was 17 miles from home. I didn’t stay on campus. I think my mother was happy that I stayed at home and went to college. This was my nurturing mother.
Prince Wright-Prince Wright is my oldest sister. She really felt like my mother too because she would get on us whenever we did something wrong. I would say that she was nurturing, but strict. She helped my mom take care of us so we had to do what she told us to do. She helped us with our homework when we came home from school. She is very big on education even to this day. She retired from teaching last year. She has always wanted all her brothers and sisters to go to college and make something out of themselves. Even though we all didn’t go to college, we have good jobs. We have five teachers and one curriculum director in our family. Therefore we have six educators . Even to this day, she is still a nurturing person . She nurtures all her nephews and nieces now making sure they go to college and have a good life. She also has a grandson that she nurtures, but he lives in Washington D.C. I do feel that her caring about her sisters and brother made us successful adults today. Now we appreciate when she was a little hard on us growing up. Now we know that she was strict on us because of the love she had for us.
Mrs. Willie Bostic- Mrs. Willie Bostic was a nurturing person in the way that she treated my siblings and I as her grandchildren. She had three grandchildren but they were far away. I guess she wanted some grandchildren close by and that’s when she pretty much adopted us. My family loved her and she loved us. She would give us candy and cookies all the time. She would let us read magazines at her house a lot of the time. She just seemed to do the things that grandmothers would do. She was about 75 and had a lot of love for us. She would give us a little change to put in our pockets. She died in 1974 when I was in the 10th grade. We were all hurt by her death because she was so good to us.
