Grow (W)here You Are Planted

 My momma was born in Kenosha, WI.  She came to Earth three years after her sister, the fourth in a line of siblings born two years apart.  As a child, her favorite response was 'in a minute'.  The running family joke was she had been saying those words since before she was born...hence the 3-year difference between her and my Aunt E. That extra year, and being the last child, gave her something she often mentioned as one of the luckiest parts of her childhood.  See, when she was born, there was finally a little money in the bank.  The rest of the kids had jobs and could pay for their own fun, and all the punishments had mostly been had.  Linda came into a world where she and her mother Susan could get to know each other a little differently.  They could spend uninterrupted time with each other.  I hope she never felt guilty because of it...I hope I'm not sharing too much by sharing it here. I feel it timely to let you know that my momma was white of French and Czech* desce