[Conservababe]

I just reread your post. I swear, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Did yall have a helper woman? My paternal grandmother, with three children, did. My maternal grandmother, with twelve children in twenty-two years did not.

[WVNan]

That was a normal day for my grandmother. When I was growing up I was her helper. I scrubbed those clothes until my knuckles bled. But she taught me so many things that have proved valuable to me throughout my life, the most important being to "count your blessings."