Reply #16: I grew up on a farm that had three small houses set close to each other. [View All]

Those houses were surrounded by Fields of hand planted vegetables. Our water was pumped on a outside hand pump. We used out houses for toilets and took baths in large galvanized tubs. We had chickens and slaughtered a pig once a year (sometimes we even ate squirrel). We canned and had a cellar-hole to store our canned goods.

There was my Grandfather and Grandmother, three uncles, four aunts and ten of us kids. Two of my uncles worked jobs off the farm as did one of my aunts they also helped on the farm in their spare time, ha! We sold a lot of our produce to markets in the area. Most of our (the children's) clothes were made from feed grain bags.

BEST CHILDHOOD EVER!!!!!

I am so glad to have had the chance to have my extended family play such a large part in my life. We were poor in worldly goods but rich with love.

Pay no attention to what others say about living with Mommy. Sometimes people require putting down others because they have no real self worth.