What is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

My parents gave me life, loved and cared for me forgiving me my mistakes and always taking me back if I needed them.   They gave me unconditional love which is the nicest thing you can do for anyone.

Do you think it would be better to be an only child or have brothers and sisters?

With brothers and sisters, you always have somebody to play with.  Without, your toys never get broken.  With you learn to share.  Without you don't have to.  With you have somebody to stand up for you at school.  Without you learn caution.

You get the picture.  There are plusses and minuses. 

When you are grown, these are exaggerated.  If something happens to your parents, siblings will join together to help and singletons must deal with it by themselves.

I had siblings and envied the singletons I knew because they didn't have to share anything especially their parents.  Now, that we are older, they have no family other than spouses and children.  No nieces or nephews.

I think I am happy to have had siblings.

Do you still see your childhood friend?

When we went to high school, we didn't have any classes together and lost touch.  I see her now on Facebook but with six hundred miles between us, that is the closest we will get.

Have you done more or seen more than you ever imagined?

The simple answer to that is a resounding YES.
Before I was married, I had been in two states, the one I lived in and the neighboring one.  On our honeymoon, I added a third state.  Now, I have been to all but six of the fifty states in the USA.
My parents didn't like to travel and I don't remember us taking a vacation.  We took daytrips but never went so far that we couldn't get home the same day.
My husband was an immigrant and he loved to travel.  We didn't do much traveling when we were first married but later we took many trips to Europe.  Much later, we traveled the continental USA and going through all but four states plus several provinces in Canada.
I never imagined traveling so much or moving out of the state where I was born because people just didn't do that.  All of my mother's siblings lived in one state and all but one of my dad's.  Now, their children are spread across the country and in other countries.
Yes, I miss the stability of my childhood but have enjoyed the excitement of the moving and traveling I have done.  I hope I will have some more traveling in the future because there are places I haven't seen and things I haven't done.

What was your best friend's name when you were young? And what did you do together?

When I was young, my best friend was named Beverly.  She lived just two houses from me and we were in the same grade in school.  I remember making mudpies with her and her mother throwing both of us in the bathtub.  When we were older, we would walk uptown to see the free movies that were shown on the wall of the community building.  It was fun.  We would bring snacks and a blanket and sit on the ground and watch a movie for free.  Those were the only kind we could afford.  Then walking home we were pestered by boys who came from other towns.  They would ask us if we wanted a ride and if they became too persistent, we would duck into somebodies house and say we were home.  The town we lived in was so small that we knew everybody who lived on the route from our houses to the business section where the movies were shown.  When we reached my house, I would walk with Beverly until we were half way past the empty with the open doors and then we would both run home as fast as we could.  We just didn't know what was in that barn but with the doors always open, they could run out quickly and get us.  There was a street light on the corner but it was very dark in front of the old barn.

What is the biggest fish you ever caught? What is the biggest animal you have ever caught?

The only fish I ever caught was wrapped in plastic and laying on a Styrofoam plate.  I have been fishing but never caught anything live.
The biggest animal was a chicken.  When I was young, I entered the 4-H chicken catching contest and won first prize for being the first one to catch a chicken.  It wasn't a point of pride with me though because I was standing in the pen with all the chickens and the others kids and opened my hand and a chicken jumped into it.  I closed my fingers and was the winner.  Boring.  Now the greased pig contest, that was fun but girls weren't allowed to compete.
Wouldn't it be exciting if I had caught a tiger or an elephant?

What is the funniest story you can recall about your children or grandchildren?

I had my first four children in four years with the youngest being younger by two and a half years. I had a dutch door installed between the kitchen and the playroom so I could open the top and keep an eye on them while I was working in the kitchen.  I had been busy for a few minutes and hadn't looked in on them.  When I did, there was one child missing.  The older three were sitting on the toy chest looking especially innocent but where was the youngest.  Then I heard banging from the inside of the toy chest and learned what my sweet innocent babes had done to their little brother.
My youngest one had a bad habit of falling down the basement steps.  So, I put pillows and other cushioning at the base of the stairs to cushion his fall.  Everytime I heard noises on the stairs, I would run to see what had happened.  The older ones thought what a great way to play a trick on mom and began throwing their dad's work boots down the steps to see me run.  The first time was forgiven but the second time was not so much fun for them.

I had to go back to work when the older ones started school so that meant babysitters in the summer and after school.  I had several teen age cousins and a sister.  They became my babysitters.  It might not have been a good choice for them.  My children didn't want a babysitter and tried to get rid of them.  The first babysitter was my cousin.  My husband used to take garlic pills that resembled brown M&M's.  When my cousin reached for a handful of them from a dish on the table, they were silent as she put them in her mouth.  Then my sister came as the babysitter.  She didn't fare much better even though they said they liked her.  We lived in the country on about twenty acres.  Half of it was tilled and the other half was trees and brambles along a small creek,  The children played in the wooded section all the time and knew their way home.  My sister didn't.  When they told her they were lost, she believed them and panicked.  When they started laughing, she knew they weren't being truthful.  During the winter, they went out to the creek and were sliding down the bank and onto the frozen water.  My sister, not thinking of the weight difference between young children and teenagers, slid down too.  Unlike the children, she slid down the bank and into the frozen water. 
I am certain they did more things to the girls who came to watch them but they haven't told me yet.

My oldest was an avid fan of the Little House on the Prairie books and read and reread them constantly.  One day I was clearing the sod from around the trees in the lawn to make it easier to mow without damaging the trees.  I piled the sod in the driveway until I could move it away.  The children proceeded to build a soddy out of the pile.  They encouraged their youngest brother to go in to see how it was.  He started to come out saying,"It was hot and smelly".  The oldest who knew about soddies from the Wilder books said,"NO, In the book it said they were cool and fresh smelling."  She didn't believe him until he came out covered with mud formed from the dirt and sweat.
My grandson, who was about five at the time, was sitting in a restaurant with his mom and staring at two women who were sitting next to them.  When he and his mom got up to leave, he went over to the women and told them they were beautiful.  We call him Mr. Obvious.  He has always been like that.
Two of my grandsons were surprisingly quiet one afternoon when they suddenly appeared at the top of the stairs totally naked and completely blue.  Now, that they are teenagers, they don't like to hear this story.
Add a story of your own if you feel like.  We all have funny stories about our children and grandchildren.