Lorena's Life Story

The day my second baby was born, was on December 22, 1994. I had just had a girl at the beginning of this year, and this time it was a girl again, but at the end of the year! What name was I going to put her? I didn’t know. Until later when I had my baby next to me in the hospital room and my brother came in to visit. "Hey sister! How are you both doing?" He asked excitedly. "So have you though on what name your going to put her?" He asked. "That’s what I was thinking about right now, and I really don’t know. How about you brother, you have any ideas?" I asked him. "How about if we call her Lorena, It’s a nice name." He suggested. "Oh yeah! That’s a really nice name, I might as well name her like that. Lorena Valladares. Ok we got the name." I told him. I decided to name her Lorena Valladares, like my brother had said but didn’t give her a middle name.

Lorena was a calm baby, she wasn’t like her older sister Nancy that used to wake me up at night screaming and didn’t let me sleep all night. She woke up only when she was hungry or was dirty. She started to grew and didn’t have favorites. Her older sister Nancy used to like her father better than me because everytime I’ll carry her she will start to cry. Two years passed and Lorena and Nancy will spent all their time playing together, until I was pregnant again from another girl. Now I had three girls and later on I finally had a boy. My house will be full of screams and fighting all the time. Lorena will fight more with her sister Esmeralda. They never liked each other when they were small, she will always be jelous of her sister Esme and spent their days discussing and arguing.

She started to grow, and it was time for her to go to school. The first day at school she started to cry that she didn't want to go, but then got used to it. I was proud of her because she got good grades, better than her sister. Through 1-4th grade she alwasys got A's and B's, and never went to summer school. She came up to be intelligent, but later when she went to Middle School she started to change. She started to get D's and even F's, maybe it was jus harder for her now.

When she was 13 she finally met her cousins, well actually she had met them before but never got really close to them like she is now. They started to hang out with the family again, and she started ot have more friends. Before she used to be really quite and shy but now she talks to people from the outside. I see my daughter so happy the way things are now, because now she goes out and hang out with family and friends. Sometimes I will have problems with her because she will fight alot with her older sisters Nancy and Daisy.

Now she is 14, in 8th grade and her goal is to graduate and be somebody in life one day. I wish my daughter a wealthy and better future than mines. I really think she will suceed in life and sometimes when I see her grow and grow more it just makes me want to stop time and have that little girl that once used to play wit toys back, thinking that one day she will move out and have a family of her own. She will experience this feeling one time when she is a mother and realize life by herself.