Ooo, I wish I had at least one parent like that haha. I sometimes wonder how it is to be raised home-baked goods and shelves built by one of the parents and stuff like that. It sounds so idyllic even though it was obviously a reality for many. Lovely post. Thank you. Memoria, many of us grew up in the '50s/early '60s, when life was a bit slower - before cell phones, Internet, computers, DVDs, CDs, heck, almost pre-television. It was a different time; not so much money around, and families did a lot of things that nowadays we don't think of tackling. In retrospect, idyllic... perhaps. We had hand-me-down clothes and bikes and shoes, but we never thought about it; just the way it was. So long as there was love, we were rich. PJH

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