Posts Tagged ‘Parent Bloggers Network’

From the time I was a little girl, I always dreamed of becoming a mother. After I saw the movie Cheaper by the Dozen and read the book, I was sure I wanted twelve. Imagine that. That number changed with the years. I decided my perfect family would include four children. Eventually I got the [...]

My mother’s family wasn’t rich by any standard. They were frugal people who lived simply and paid their bills regularly. The world was cash, no checks or credit cards then. In the Depression Years, it was especially hard. When things got tough, family was what mattered. Mother, father, brothers, sisters was the one resource from [...]

I was born soon after America entered into WWII. My early years were lived in a world of tension. People used black out shades on their windows and painted the top of their cars’ headlights out so they would not be targets for the enemy possibly lurking offshore in submarines in the Atlantic. Meat, sugar, [...]