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Growing up with 1 sibling, 25 cousins, 10 aunts, 10 uncles and wonderful grandparents; with many of them farmers- was a lot of fun! We had 3 of us fall thru the ice, one winter at our grandparents in Missouri. I remember grandpa, yelling as he walked to the barn: "If I find any broken bails of hay up there, I am going to blister some bottoms." By the time he got up to the hay mow, 16 kids were nowhere to be seen. We were safely hidden in our tunnels beneath the hay. The 16 of us slept in sleeping bags on the living room floor, that had no heat. We ran for the oil burner in the nexxt room, every morning. What a wonderful childhood! Even though we were taught to respect and listen to our parents; sometimes with a swat on the butt to remind us.
Life as an adult, with my marriage to my best friend and then the birth of our two beautiful children. Then the unthinkable, uncureable cancer diagnosis. Lung Cancer for my husband and Multiple Myeloma for me....