GramE

GramE you are so tiny did you deliver mail or work in the actual post office.

Haha, tiny isn't a word they would use to describe me now! I was 5' tall & weighed 97 pounds. We didn't have food, just cake & punch. Our wedding meal was a box of French fried shrimp & fries from KFC & chocolate milk from Kroger that we picked up on our way to the motel for our one night stay. I went from my father's house to my husband's grandfather's house. He was a Kentucky born factory worker who lived with us until his passing. An interesting beginning to a marriage. I'm glad they had added an inside bathroom before I arrived. He was a quiet man who taught me a whole bunch I'd never learned at home.

My husband was in the Air Force so we lived in Texas, then North Carolina. I was a proof reader at our local newspaper before he joined. Then I did payroll for Montgomery Wards for 6 years or so. Then we came back to Indiana & I wrote taxes for H & R Block before working in the office at Kmart. Had my 4th while there & while on pregnancy leave it was hard to believe how much smoother things at home went, but I went back until my oldest started into puberty. I could do it all physically, but emotionally I was a mess so we decided to try it on one income. That lasted 6 years, well I cleaned house & cooked meals for a lady Air Force dentist & her family, but my oldest was heading to college & we decided I needed a real job. Actually it was four years after I had applied when I got called. I was 36. Only worked part time at first, but sometimes I had 2-3 part time jobs at a time. Lunch lady at school, printing wedding napkins in the evening, taking inventories over night. They were all "as needed" so we never knew from one day to the next where I would be! Then in '97 I went full time at the Post Office when my youngest graduated. Pretty much a jack of all trades, master of none! But no I was a rural mail carrier for 23 yrs until a young man ran a yield sign & spun my whole life in a different direction. Now I get to stay home & sew and take care of my hubby.

All the time at the post office, whenever I went shopping fabric always caught my eye. So I have a stash that took 23 years to build up! Others come shopping at my house! We moved to a single level home 4 yrs ago, I got some of my grandsons help me move my fabric so DH wouldn't see the reality of all I had. Now, I can't get out much, I have all I need here!