Ok so this is a bit different to anything i've ever written before so bare with me :D

thanks for reading!!

Grace

Ok so my plan is to give you and insight into my life before we dive right in. So where do I start? I guess the most obvious place is with my parents.

My mother goes by many names. She's mom to me and my brothers, Dr Temperance Booth in academic and personal circles, Temperance Brennan in the literary world and most uniquely Bones. That's what my father calls her. that's what my father has always called her. I grew up around kids whose fathers called their mothers things like Sweetheart and darling, but I never found the fact that my father called his wife Bones strange. I mean he'd always called her that. I would have been worried if he called her anything else. The only times I can recall him ever calling her by her Christian name was when Grandpa died and she was upset.

Which bring me onto my Dad. Seeley Booth. he's always preferred to be known by his second name. so he was normally called Booth, or sir. My dad may be the head of the F.B.I. but he's one of the kindest people in the world! I couldn't have asked for a better father, and its always helped with the brownie points that I'm his only daughter.

My parents are great together, both in work and at home. They seem to be almost the same person they work together perfectly and fluidly. They have the best partnership in the history of the Bureau(better then the legendary Scully and Mulder even) and they've also been in a successful marriage for the last thirty-five years. Auntie Angela told me my parents' story. About how at first they hated each other, how my mother black mailed my dad into letting her work with him. About how after a while they became best friends, about how they slowly they fell in love. But I must say some times from the way Angela tells it I could swear that she's sugar coating it. It's sounds a lot like a fairy tale!

Now they don't have the most common of jobs I mean imagine being six years old, standing in front of your class and trying to explain what a forensic anthropologist is! I mean it's been twenty-four years and some of my friends still don't understand it. Most of the time I just tell people she's an author and a scientist. Dad's a lot easier to explain. I mean you just say F.B.I. and people stop asking questions.

They live in our childhood home, a gorgeous three story building with acres of garden. We had the best childhood imaginable, my parents make sure of that, neither of them had the best childhoods and they always wanted the best for us. My mother still works at the Jeffersonian and does consults for other. The only thing that she's stopped doing is going abroad for digs. Daddy is yet to leave the Beauro. He's been director now for nearly thirty years an people are beginning to think he'll never quit!

Now onto my brothers. Parker is the oldest. His mother was Rebecca my fathers old girlfriend from way before he even met Mom. Parks great, he's just like dad. We celebrated his forty-fifth birthday last week. He and his wife Louisa (who he went to law school with) have two children Charlie and Jane. Parker is going to be an amazing president he's kind, caring and very intelligent. Dad always said that mom had done her best to turn him into a squint. Parkers the only one of us that's blonde, we've always given him a hard time about that.

Then there's the twins, Carmine and Callum. Carmine's the actor. Callum the scientist. They're like chalk and cheese Cal was the one who did his homework on time, got extra credit and student of the year awards. Car cut class to go to auditions and workshops. They get on great though. Carmine is engaged to his high school sweetheart Kathy he's been with her since before he shot to fame. And Cal… well Cal has a scientists view on love, that monogamy is archaic and out dated. That love is just a rush of chemicals. Angela always laughs when he voices his opinion on the subject. Saying something about how familiar that sounds.

And my discussion about our family wouldn't be complete with out talking about our extended family. my parents best friends were our extended family. my Auntie and Uncle Jack and Angela Hodgins and their adopted son, best friend who I'll talk about later, my Auntie Camille and then there's Sweets we never called him uncle Sweets, mainly becuse dad told us not to! something about him being only like a year older then us which honestly i never understood. And finally there's Tibby our cat. Her real names Tibia but only mom calls her that.

so i'm sure you can see from all that that my family is not exactly typical! But they're mine and i love them!