The struggles of Allison include me procrastinating about every single thing I have ever done with my life. You need an example? Okay well this blog is mandatory because it is my school assignment, well guess what we only had to do 7 blogs, you know one each day type of thing. Well guess what it is the last day of school and I am doing every single last blog assigned to us TODAY. So while im rushing to do things blogs all in the last day of school im most likely not going to get all seven of these blogs but im rushing through and trying to do them as fast as I can like a big ol’ dummy when I had so much time in class and out of class that I could’ve written 30 blogs in that amount of time. My teacher is probably reading this as we speak going “I told this girl to do this blog and not fall behind” well I didn’t listen and now im out of time. By you guysss. (: PS sorry Ms. B. you know I still love you !

The struggles of Allison include that I have been writing these blogs and have yet to introduce myself to whoever you creatures are reading this. Well for starters, my name is Allison Schaeper, but most people call me Addie or Loko. I am currently 16 years old and attending Diamond Oaks Institute of Technology, it sounds all fancy but it is not all that. I attend this school mainly to take health technology, as of right now I am currently a State Tested Nurses Aide (STNA) which means I can legally work at any nursing home and take care of the residents who live there. I absolutely love being able to help people who cant do much to help themselves. I am not stopping here though, next year at this time I will have my PCA, and two years after that I will have my degree in respiratory therapy, which is what I am truly working towards, see my sister, Krystal, she died at age 20 of a lung disease called Cystic Fibrosis. My sister needed a nurse that had a degree in respiratory therapy, pretty much just a nurse on how to help her breathe.  Well besides that all I do is babysit, and if you were reading my past blogs you would already know this, but besides that I play a lot of sports. I play soccer, volleyball, softball , basketball and I did cross country for a while. Well that sums of the basics.

The struggles of Allison include teachers, boy oh boy do I dislike them sometimes. Ever had that one teacher that always says they are going to do something but never does it? Like for instance if you ask for help or for them to show you something and they say “can you wait until after I do blah blah blah?” or “can you wait five minutes im busy right now?” that REALLY grinds my gears, because they never end up doing it and you sit there looking like a lost duck because you have absolutely no idea how or what to do for a specific thing and then you go home and your parents ask “what did you learn at school today?” and of course you have to tell them nothing because you didn’t learn that ONE thing, cause that’s just how it goes right? You can have the best day of your entire life, but say you tripped over your shoe string and fall. When somebody asked how your day went you will automatically go on about how you tripped instead of how great your day has gone so far, believe me it NEVER fails. Just like it never fails if a teacher ever tells you to wait a minute after you ask for help, you just might as well Google it cause your teacher is NOT going to be the one to help you out there.  Trust me, I “Googled” my whole way through sophomore year.

The struggles of Allison include non-stop babysitting around the clock 24/7. I have always wished for nieces and nephews, and now I have two nephews exactly 6 months and 4 days apart. One of my nephews, the oldest one, 10 months, is named Alexander but I call him Stink. Stink lives in the same house as me so no matter what he is always there, crawling and getting into EVERYTHING. Being a teenager and having to watch a baby every single day kills your entire social life and you have no choice in it at all even though he isn’t my own son. Then there is Dylan, now he is only 4 months and I call him Monkey. Monkey does not live with me, he lives with my brother and his girlfriend. I only watch monkey when they are both at work at the same exact time. When that happens I am babysitting both the boys, Stink and Monkey, at the same exact time. THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE HARDEST THING TO DO EVER. Stink is crawling now and he is into everything and going everywhere so it is beyond hard to keep an eye on him and tend to Monkey at the same time. Whenever I am holding Dylan Xander gets extremely jealous and clingy because he is used to me being with him 24/7 and not giving him attention and giving it to Dylan is something he just does not like. Having nephews is hard work, but I would not even consider changing it for anything in this whole world. These two boys are my heart and soul. I love them to the death of me.

These two wonderful little boys are my nephews, but they mean so much more to me than that, they're my entire world. Alexander Roy Schaeper (blue) was a surprise baby, meaning until the day he was born nobody ever even knew he existed. He spent the first two months of his life in the NICU. he is now 10 months old born on July 20,2012 and couldn't be any healthier. Dylan Thomas Schaeper (white) was born on January 16, 2013 and is now four months old and growing every single day. My brother and sister blame me because they said i jinxed them, one day last summer i said i wanted a niece or a nephew on facebook the very next day my brother and his girlfriend found out they were pregnant, one week later my sister had her surprise baby. My life literally revolves around these two boys right here. I am my nephews keepers, i will do absolutely everything for these two little boys, watching them grow up is such a wonderful thing. Watching them learn new things and experience new things is great. The smile on their little faces just makes EVERYTHING worth it, it brightens up my entire day, no my entire life. i could not imagine one day without them.