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Re: Kids post has got me reflective today!!!


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Posted by oldtanker on December 21, 2014 at 10:48:46 from (64.118.3.75):

In Reply to: Kids post has got me reflective today!!! posted by JD Seller on December 21, 2014 at 10:04:39:

Well someone has to keep you in line! We hope with a cast iron skillet! :twisted: :twisted:

I know what you mean. My wife was always helping out kids. Not to the extent you did but kids always came first. When I was in the Army a lot of the families didn't handle money well and we were not over paid. We had neighbor kids banging on the door a couple of days before payday wanting to eat lunch at our house because they were tired of eating peanut butter every day. She would feed them whatever she had fix our kids. By the time we got to Ft Knox we had 7 of our own kids. But we had our money in order enough that we could easily afford a boat payment so we got a boat do I could take the kids fishing. Plus we still had money enough to have tuna and lunch meat without running out before payday. That's because we only had the boat as debt. These other soldiers had new furniture and cars and were tight on finances. She donated time before Christmas for toy drives and spent hours making doll dresses so a little girl getting a doll had a couple of sets of cloths to play with it. After I retired from the Army she still did stuff like that. When she went to college they had a table that people could put donated stuff on. She knew there were a lot of struggling parents trying to work and attend school so they could get better jobs. She would go to yard sales and buy Barbies by the box full. Then after homework was done she'd make tons of cloths for them too. At Christmas time she would put a doll in a gallon freezer bag with several sets of clothing. She took shopping bags full of those to school and put them on that table so that these struggling parents could give something nice to their kids for Christmas. She's done a lot of other things too. She and I have been married 41 years. She had the most difficult job I can think of and that was being an Army wife. Then her trying to help others on top of raising 7 kids when I could be gone for some time.

I think of that and tell both her and others that she is the nicest person that I know. I often wonder why she has put up with me all these years. She darn sure didn't stay for the money!

Rick


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