Eagle, I enjoy hearing about your get-aways. Was your husband a firefighter?

Glad to hear you worked through it. I think most of us missed out on certain segments of our siblings years becasue we were so wrapped up in our own lives at the time. For the most part, it's when we were in our 20s.

My younger sister and I were talking recently and I realized how clueless I was about a certain time in her life. I was away from home and harldy communicating with her at the time. I spoke with Mom and Dad, but not the sibs too much. I find it weird, but it's just the way life played out. Then as we all married and had children, we connected again. Now we talk all the time and are intimately involved in one another's lives.