My mother born in the great depression and they lived on a paltry farm. If rocks had cash crops they would have been millionaires. She was the 5th child in a family of ten. My grandmother was often overwhelmed by that many children, and so much work she would leave for periods of time. This meant my mother became a surrogate mom to her younger brothers and sisters. She cooked and cleaned like it was a religion. At 13 Mom was sent away to a convent for further parochial educat