C006  My Parents' Childfood

Yeah I you know My mother would tell me the ah the story of her as a little girl going to school in a one room school house. And ah kinda reminded me of the little house on the prairie. You know where it had a little wood stove and ah it was a room house from grade one to grade eight, and she was fortunate to go to grade seven.
 Ah my father didn�ft have any education. He he went to grade one and that was it. But ah they both came from large families and ah they were very very poor. Um they ah had to walk to school and on the way to school, the wealthier children would be ridding horse and buggy and tease them.
And you know at winter time they would ah through ah snowballs at the kids, kinda reminded me of our day. Because we walked to school down a  steep still steep hill. We lived out in the country and there were ah no um school busses at the time.
 So I did it for a year until they had built a school near where we lived. But ah it ah it was tuff times back than. Ah children today don�ft realize how much ah you know they are given and ah they complain if they have to walk a block kind of thing you know? But ah yeah it was stories like that ah I can remember, and ah I�fll never forget them. 
Um its nice to have those memories. Because you know once your parents are gone you don�ft hear these stories ever again so. Im glad that I have several.
 And ah we are from, I am from a large family myself. There�fs eleven in my family and Im I am number nine so they kind of carried on tradition but today its pretty difficult to have you know that many children. We had two ourselves and stopped at that.
 Anyway ah I I think that�fs probably one of my special stories about my mom and dad. And they did meet at a very young age. Ah my father worked on the farm at nine and ten. And my mother worked at eleven cleaning um my father�fs sister�fs house. Thats how they they met and.
And ah you know they also started a family when they were very young so. That thats how I am here today any way.