Re: Large Family

Posted by Gilly on May 10, 2008 at 06:49:43 from (208.46.251.138):

In Reply to: Large Family posted by Alias on May 10, 2008 at 06:00:41:

I was born during the Dinosaur Age, and was the 5th child of what was to eventually become a family of 12 children. We lived in the country, and had a great life. Work? Yeah, we all worked, at times. We worked in the fields, but heck! We made play out of that! We just plain enjoyed life.

We had a dozen milk cows, and sold milk and butter. Also always had a big flock of chickens, and sold eggs, as well as having fried chicken when company came, which was most Sundays. I think mama cooked beans every day, and that was our main staple. She made biscuits for breakfast and cornbread for other meals. Seemed like a big skillet of gravy was available for every meal. All this on a wood stove for most of my time at home. (We fianlly moved up to a 'modern, newfangled coal oil stove' when I was a teen ager).

We were never on welfare, and all learned to 'make do' or do without. My mama was a very pretty lady, and always looked younger than her years. When she died at close to 90, her skin was smooth and clear... not an old age spot on her face, and very few wrinkles.

We were a poor family, but like most kids at that time, we never knew it, and sympathized, in private, with the REALLY poor kids that would come and go in our schools.

I wouldn't take a million dollars for my life and my family. Too many kids? Nah! No such thing! G

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