Jim....regarding the specifics of what our parents and grandparents have done for us....welll I doubt that for most of us there was any one thing...and that to go into detail would be to write a novel of epic proprotions....

for to say one thing would be to bring to mind others....

I will talk a bit about my grandparents though...I have always had a special bond with them....i have lived with them at times...and growing up I was the one who got to spend summers with them in my hometown of Bonners Ferry....In my teenage years the depression hit...and hard...I would hide in my books....i would hide in my anger....I was a depressed kid being raised by a depressed mother...

Well, anyways....I spent a lot of time with my grandparents...a pair of more wonderful people one will never find...As I said before I was angry and depressed and lord knows what else....but they did not give up on me....there was a lot of hurt involved caused by me...as I would lash out at them...but they never gave up...they did not smack me around...they continued to talk with me...not to me....not at me...they did not send me packing as by rights they could have done...that is one of the best things anyone has ever done for me....

Today, because they did not give up on me...we have an even stronger bond....and when I think of those times they bring me to tears...with guilt and sorrow...that I have caused so much pain to those who i love more than life itself...though I know I have brought much pride to them also...

Nowadays their main beef is that I have no children...they want their great grandkids! I tell them I could always accomodate.....but they want me to do it the right way! lol...

sorry for the creep.