I know those where the days, being young and all. now time has changed.

Love the poem.

I just love your postings

You’ve brought back memories for me Christine. We sometimes forget we can live on much less.

This poem also reminds me of my past – I grew up with hardship in life. I started living my own at age 14 now I am already married.

Beautiful Poem, nice memories. What I loved most about it, is that you stayed together as a family. That is such a big blessing and gives kids emotional stability…. which helps them later in life…. to build their own family up strong.

Oh… I think I got all sentimental in this Poem. lol. Look at what your words did to me, Christine.

Ps. I couldnt join that facebook group you noted, cos it takes always prompts about “leaving a secure Connection” which gets me paranoid, but Thanxxx.

Brings back my childhood memories as well. Good piece Christine.

A lovely poem, Christine. You paint beautiful images with your words. Those times were harder, but I think that there was more stability. People worked together, and as you said, skills were passed down through the generations. I think that as technology is making our lives easier (?) it is also making the skills we used to learn from our parents obsolete. Who does canning and butchering anymore, when it is so much easier, and even cheaper, to buy our food. Who sews their own clothes, when buying fabric is more expensive than buying clothes? We don’t even have a fabric store here anymore.

Sorry for raining on your parade (or ranting on your poem). I feel sometimes like I am sending my girls out into the world without so many of the skills I learned from my mother and grandmother, but our lives today are just too busy.

How nicely written. The values we learned from the hard lessons of life sustain us even today. While others are contemplating suicide we know better days are coming because we have overcome hardships before. Thank you for sharing.

touching! your growing up had a magic about it!

Your poem was very moving. I agree with Lady Elena and I love the fact that you all remained a family no matter what.

I always love reading your poems, Christine, this one is lovely as usual. Very touching one.

Cristine,it’s so true. We had a tough time growing up and it taught me frugality. I will go without anytime before going into debt. We passed it on to our children and they adhere to the same rule.

This poem is really worth sharing. It is beautiful.

Guess we had a little harder problems then as our family’s a lot bigger than yours. But yes, we did cope with God’s help. Nice piece, Christine.

I can identify. We didn’t have an easy time either. It makes me appreciate what we have now.

I remember mom being so careful with the budget. We had a family of four and we all packed lunches but she would always keep the grocery bill under $16. a week.

I love the mix of your pictures and poem. A great way to welcome the morning.. full of positive vibes.

Great poem. Get stronger from hard times is something worthy to proud of. It is always nice to have a supporting family when undergoing this growth process.

A very good message in this poem.

You ha had a memorable childhood.

You had had a memorable childhood.

child hood is unforgettable

We have the most memrable stories only of our Childhood

Thank you for sharing a piece of writing from your childhood. Sometimes living with less is more – it makes you more appreciative of what you do have.

Really nice.

We live a a life of legacy everyday and hope to pass the torchlight of prudence resilence and hardwork to our children. I bet you have done a good job. Thanks for sharing your childhood memories.

This is one of my most favourite poems of yours now Christine, and mostly because of the way you delivered such an important message.

Great poem. You’re lucky you are able to preserve your old poems. I used to write a lot before but I have thrown most of them away.

i wish you had written a prose for this.

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments.

Childhood memories never die! This was sweet! My imaginations drive me to picture little Christine shopping and helping out at home! We all were young someday, and there are fond childhood memories that take us back in time! I liked this!

Oh such a lovely poem about a time in your life, when things were indeed very difficult. We learned our lessons, and learned them well. Great poem

Rightly it has got a lot of right comments that this poem deserves. Nice memories!

I love my parents, I know they try hard to educate me, a beautiful poem christine

Very well-written experiences in the form of a poem. Great article!

Loved it Christine cheers

Yes times were hard but we learnt to cope.

And it helped to make us all strong,

So that as we grew up with families of our own

We always managed when things went wrong.

Great Stanza!

Times were hard but sweet.I love listening to these,selfishly gobbling up eggs and omlettes without having to share.

Nice story.

You’re an expert imagist.

A lovely poem

I had so many things to write as comment but suddenly feeling so sad for my long lost childhood…. I am so sad that i have grown up..

This made me feel nostalgic. I miss my childhood too!