1314. Difficult but happy days! Raising our own family!
Dear Readers, I just found something I had written on my computer, copied from an old large journal I had for many years. Times were quite different then. It was about in 1971, as I wrote that Jeremy my youngest of nine children, wouldn't be born for 3 more years. We then had eight children, ages 15 down to a baby, and life was quite hard, but enjoyable, as I had always wanted a large family. I'll let you figure out why I wrote some of this, as I wanted to remember in years when life would be easier. My husband was an Elementary Teacher, and I didn't work outside the home. I gave some piano lessons when I could. Women didn't work in those days nearly as much as they do now. There is a story behind much of what I wrote, so perhaps you can figure it out! So here it is: This photo was taken at our Golden Wedding Celebration in 2005, when our children were grown. Oldest to youngest right to left..