My Parents

I've thought long and hard about this part of my website.  How would I arrange it...what stories would I tell....what 'family secrets' could I tell now that most of the guilty are no longer with us?

Finally, I decided I'd do it the same way I did the rest of the site...with pictures...like the one to the left taken of my folks in the mid-seventies while they were on vacation.  Dad was in his sixties and Mom in her fifties.....they aged so well....wish they'd shared that trait with me!!  Or the one below...the only picture I have of me as a little girl with my folks.

Several years ago I created a book of pictures and a little history of our family and gave a copy to my son, Andy, my brother and sisters, and a very special cousin.....I forgot to keep one for myself!!  So, here I go again...trying to give everyone a little taste of what it was like growing up with Mom & Dad.

They loved each other with all their hearts and they loved their kids.  They loved music and loved to laugh...two traits they did share with me...traits that are even more important than aging well.  They were hard workers....except for the time a tractor ran over Dad's leg laying him up for several weeks.  They'd give the shirts off their backs to a friend in need.  They never had much...but they had all they needed and more.  They had their love, family, friends, music, and laughter.

Don't get me wrong...my folks weren't perfect...not by any stretch of the imagination.  But when I compared them to the parents of my friends....I had the best ones!

So, please read my ramblings about my family....they won't be in any order....just as I think of them or find an old memory in a picture.