Allison Gilbert:  

o I'd most like to see again is Maria Guel, because she was my best friend and really took care of me when I was pregnant with my first child and she is my daughters Godmother. I truly have missed her friendship. What I've learned most from my kids is what unconditional love really is and the forever bond that you have as parent and child. I don't love any of my kids more than the others but have a different type of relationship with each one of them. It's amazing growing up with your kids (I was a very young mother) and the awesome relationships that you have with them when they are adults. Believe me, when you think they are not listening to you as kids, you will realize when they are adults that they were listening after all. LOL If I won $100 million, I'd give 1/4 of it to build a homeless shelter, then spend the rest on homes for my kids , college education for my grandkids and have my husband retire. My current age is 47. When I was 12, I thought that people my age now would be raising their kids. I was so completely suprised that alot of people my age are grandparents. My best friend would tell you I'm young at heart, fun to be around or talk to on the phone, a friend for life (if I am your friend), a survivor, a driven woman who can succeed and take care of herself and her family. People who don't know me or don't know me very well would probably describe me as shy at first (not so shy that I won't talk), but, they will know that I am intellegent. I share my home with ex husband, which I find wonderful now that the kids are grown and gone. In 10 years, I hope to be living somewhere other than California. I'm going to get there by Car and U-haul. My oldest friend is Jeannette Logue. (Who passed away July 12th, 2009) We met at the Christmas parade in 1975 in Town & Country Village in Sunnyvale. We were both on the Drill Team. However, I was Madrone and she was Benner. After the parade everyone went to Round Table Pizza and both schools were talking that rivalry trash and we looked at each other and went outside. Within a few months, Jeannette was going to Madrone and we told everyone we were cousins. We were 12 years old and to this day and forever, she always has been and always will be my best friend!!!:) I love her and will love her as my sister until the end of time. :)))) The childhood memory that I will never forget would be moving to Arkansas when I was 14 and seeing my boyfriend and friends on the sidewalk in front of my house waving when our car pulled away. I will never forget that day! :( I would say that the biggest surprise in my life would be that I am 46 years old, married for 22 years (still with my ex now) and that we have 3 grown kids of my own ages, 31, 29, 25 and a stepdaughter age 27 that I also helped raise and that I have 7 grandkids with the 8th and 9th (twins) due in February 2010. I have grown up with my kids and we are a very close family.