If I Could Turn Back Time By: Tina Olinger

This a true story based on my life and experience’s I have had throughout the years, the good and bad times, the happy and sad. I was born on a cold Friday morn in December 1978 in a small town of Virginia. The first born into a world of unknown and a life like no other, my sister came along in August of 1980 and later we found out we had two step sisters from my dad’s previous marriage. They lived with their grandparents and we hardly got to see them except for the holidays and occasionally in the summer time. Now as were all adults it seems we have less and less time to get together, everyone is so busy and hardly have time for anything or anyone. But we make do and enjoy the times we can have together and as many memories as well. My parents struggled raising two children but we never went without the bare essentials such as food, shelter or clothes. We may not have had a fancy house or car nor wore the best of clothes but they made do with what they had. When I was a year and half old my only grandfather passed away, my mother’s father, from a major heart attack I have very few memories of him as I was so young and my sister was still just a baby so she didn’t get to know what a kind and great man he truly was. My parents had there good and bad as most do, children do not come with instructions so they did the best they could. We hardly saw them both through the years as they both worked odd hours and shifts and sometime two jobs just to make ends meet. The one thing they both all ways made sure we did as a family was to go camping and fishing in the summer time, these times were the best and every year I looked forward to summer on the local river. We didn’t get to go as often as we had liked because of their work but we made do with the time we had. Sometimes my grandmother on my mom’s