Oh my, what a love story. Your mama and daddy. It is always good when there is a little devil in the man in the house as long as he keeps the devilment at home. which he did. They had a very hard life, but that is how it was in those days with the share cropping and all. A beautiful story. They really had a bunch of kids. Must have been alot of cold winters.(ha) or just alot of love. I can't imagine women doing those things these days, although I imagine in the south and mid west there is still life like that going on. The only thing in those days no one new life any different, like you said there was always food on the table and you didn't really know you were poor, now days there are so many things kids think they should have. In the long run I think it was a better life then , as kids played outside, played with each other in the family, made family's closer.I'll bet a kid these days doesn't know what kick the can is. Maybe hide and seek, but not what we all played. I always love reading your storys about the old days. You have a beautiful family. Louise in Ca.