bank in town so that i could get to school the 21 miles (including 6 miles of dirt road) and participate in sports and school activities until i could drive myself.
my parents never missed a high school football or basketball game — home or away during my high school career, and my father came to town to see as many baseball games as he could although he was busy with the farm every spring of the year.
my mother ‘got it done’, all of it, and with love and affection.
here is another great piece about mothers from the los angeles times, you can’t put a price on a mother’s love. her 