Kara: My life so far!

I began long before I was born. I was created from the love of my parents, John and Linda Szuminsky. My parents fell in love when they were only 17 & 18 years old. They struggled in those early days building their own towing and collision shop business. They worked many hours but always wanted to also have a family, they tried and waited many years for this miracle to happen for them. Finally in early 1999 they found out they were finally going to have a baby!

Since my parents owned a towing business my Mothers drove a tow truck to go everywhere. While my parents were waiting for the doctor to confirm that my mother was pregnant, my Dad was so sure that she was that he went out and bought my Mom a new car-so she didn’t have to bounce around in the tow truck while she was pregnant.

Now my Dad had a theory, that since he had all brothers and my Mom had all brothers he was certain that they definitely were going to have a baby boy. He was so sure that he even told my Mom we have a girl you can name her but if we have a boy I get to name him. My mother was much wiser so she agreed. Then came the day when they went to have an ultrasound. The technician looks up at my parents and asks if they would like to know the gender of the baby. My parents of course wanted to know. So the technician swirled her instrument around and looked up at the screen then at my parents and announced “you are having a girl!” My Dad stared in disbelief and asked “Are you sure?” The technician said yep I’m 97% sure! The technician left the room and in came the doctor. My Dad said you know what the technician just told me she said we were having a girl. The doctor said yes congratulations, then my Dad asked the doctor to take a look to get a s...

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...'t remember much about preschool other than I had fun playing and I went 3 days out of the week. For Thanksgiving that year we went to visit my Dad's Aunt and Uncle who lived in Ormond by the Sea, Florida. We had fun on the beach and while we were there, we went back to Disney World for a day to use up the one day pass tickets we had left from when we went before. I remember I really loved music and even had my own drum set and piano with a microphone! My favorite song to sing was the alphabet song.

My Dad worked a lot during the week, so on the weekend, we would spend quality time together. During these times we would take rides in his tow truck, go out to eat breakfast and even go horseback riding. One time I remember I ordered oatmeal for breakfast and then when my order came out I told my Dad I don't really like oatmeal so he let me order something else.