Dear Mom and Dad,

You ever get those never ending email questioners that ask you all sorts of crazy questions in an effort to "get" to know you better? Well I got one that I thought was blog worthy... Here are five statements that you answer and pass on so I am passing it on to you, they make you think and made me think hard.... OUCH.....

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am glad.....

I wish growing up I had known.....

I wouldn't have...

If I could change...

I really appreciate....

So here goes....

I am glad that you spanked me... Really, I am serious... I knew when I had done something wrong that warranted getting spanked... I always started crying before hand so you would take it easy on my behind (secretly I think you did, though you never let on). Sometimes I think because of it I have a better sense of right and wrong, consequences of my actions, repercussions to my spoken word, than some of my peers.

I wish growing up I had known how hurt you were by your own childhood, mom. You never let on... and like a jerk, I didn't catch on till I had my own kids. This is the one time I would want to go back and maybe do some of those mother/daughter moments that you never got to do with your own mom.

I wouldn't have... (this one is really hard) Sorry, mom and dad there isn't anything that I did that I would not do again,(even the bad stuff) I mean... it all made me the woman, mother, daughter, sister and auntie that I am today...

If I could change it would be that I kept singing publicly, I know you both feel I let my god given gift go... But that is not entirely true, there are two babies that listened to lullabies day and night and have grown up in a house so full of music that they both play several instruments and sing at the drop of a hat. So I never stopped singing, my audience changed that's all...still I wonder...

I really appreciate the grandparents you have become. Mom you said just the other day that you wish you could have given the kids more or financially help me put them through college. I wouldn't change one thing, you gave them the gift of your time. You have been the best hands on grandparents I could have ever hoped for. You taught them how to ride a horse, work with you at the farmers market, work on the farm, they have learned more from the two of you and have more wonderful memories that any amount of money could NEVER buy.... every child should be as lucky as my two...

I love you both,

Your daughter (only daughter) remember me?????? Your first born, the cute one.... The one that made you bald, dad.... ya, it's me... the one that just made your zucchini relish.... The one that gave you your "first" grandchild...(knew that one would get ya!)