But we didn't have food a lot of the time. I can remember only having ice cream cones to eat. Christmas, what was that? But life is too great of a thing to so completely miss, even if the beginning was bad like mine, or really bad, we can all make our lives better.

I did, I was a good student (I wore the same clothes a lot, but still a good student) and now I'm the first in my family to go to college. I'm making my life better than how it use to be when I was a kid. Things change that's all, and the past, with all of it's dollar store shoes, is all behind me now.

5 kids was a lot for my mother, but she did it, and I'm glad for it.