I came from a long line of "marryiers." My grandfather had four wives. Three died and hedied on the fourth one. My Dad had four wives. I had three step-mothers and a mother living at thesame time .There were 20 siblings. At ten I joined a church which was anti-divorce, so I caught thefever. I was determined I would not put my children through all of the explanations of blended, blended, blended families. "My sister's grandmother etc. So I didn't go into marriage looking out. We had to learnto work it out. All of my kids were going to be by the same daddy. No, lengthy diagrams. So we had ourchildren and our grandchildren. Some of our children reached back and used the values of theirforefathers, had nerve enough to tell me that those were my values not theirs.Getting to know and have a relationship with my grandchildren was an obsession of mine. i wouldagonize every time I would "lose" one. I was busy during my young life, going to prisons, teaching, school, counseling" so I am /was not a babysitter, Parents and children were welcomed at the hometogether. I had two teenage granddaughters stay with me, one for two school years, and one for aboutfour months.They were sixteen or more so it wasn't babysitting.I love my children and my grandchildren occupies a special place in my heart. I can't believe I havebeen multiplied many times over. I was the conduit from God to earth and even though the Grands wereraised in different cradles-they came from the same seed.