DID WE REALLY KNOW OUR PARENTS?

MAXINE MAKES LIFE SO SIMPLE...........

WHEN I THINK BACK TO MY GROWING UP DAYS.......THERE WERE PICTURES OF US KIDS ON THE WALL, THE PIANO ETC.......BUT WHAT WERE OUR PARENTS LIKE IN THEIR YOUNGER DAYS.......BEFORE THEY BECAME "MOM AND DAD?"

I HAVE A COUPLE OF PICTURES OF DAD......ONE IN A BEAUTIFUL LONG BABY DRESS, A COUPLE WITH HIS SIBLINGS WHEN THEY WERE VERY YOUNG ON A RANCH IN ARIZONA........HE WAS GOOD ABOUT SHARING STORIES OF HIS HARD LIFE......BUT WHY DIDN'T I PAY MORE ATTENTION OR ASK MORE QUESTIONS......IN THOSE DAYS I GUESS MY LIFE WAS ALL ABOUT....."ME".  NOW THAT I LOOK BACK DID I REALLY KNOW MY DAD BEFORE HE BECAME MY DAD.........

AND THEN MOM.......I HAVE A FEW MORE PICTURES OF HER, IN HIGH SCHOOL, WHEN SHE MET DAD AND WITH HER BEST FRIEND........BUT BECAUSE SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR YOU......AS YOUR MOM......YOU FORGET THAT ONE MOMENT IN TIME SHE HAD A LIFE BEFORE YOU......FOR THAT SHORT TIME SHE WAS NOT A MOTHER OR A WIFE.......JUST A WOMAN.......FOR EACH OF US IT IS A TIME TUCKED AWAY IN OUR HEART .........HOPEFULLY GOOD.  WAS MY YOUTH LIKE HERS, DID I DO SOME OF THE THINGS SHE DID, DO I LIKE OR DISLIKE CERTAIN THINGS BECAUSE SHE DID?  SO MANY QUESTIONS  COME TO YOUR MIND AS YOU THREAD BACK THROUGH THE YEARS........MOM MET DAD WHILE SHE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL........GRADUATED AND WENT TO CALIFORNIA TO STAY WITH HER SISTER.......BUT HAD FALLEN IN LOVE WITH MY DAD......WENT HOME, THEY EVENTUALLY MARRIED AND WHEN SHE WAS 20 SHE HAD ME......FROM THEN ON.......SHE WAS LABELED A WIFE AND A MOTHER. 

I MISS MY PARENTS  AND THANK THEM FOR ALL THE YEARS OF OUR TIME TOGETHER AND THE LOVE WE SHARED.......I KNOW THE FIVE OF US WERE A HANDFUL......BUT THEY NEVER LET US DOWN.