Barbara Cline:  

Thank you Bill and Ken for asking for my story, My life revolved around my husband and four children. I was a happy housewife and mother. My husband was the bread winner and worked his way to upper management. During our engagement I said I'd like to have four children and he said, fine as long as you are a stay at home mom. I did that gladly and have no regrets. In my mid thirties I was asked to do some volunteer work at a local museum. I became Program Chairman and a Tour Guide at the Will County Historical Society. I also joined the Bolingbrook Historical Society. Soon after a lady called and said someone had recomended me and thought I might help her and her neighbor form a Historical Society in Romeoville . I liked the idea and it sounded like fun so we did it. My husband helped and the company he worked for let us use their attorneys to approve the charter. We lived in Honeytree and we had a great group of friends. My friends and I got together almost daily for coffee and often filled a couple of cars and went to breakfast or lunch together. Afterwards we went shopping.We often had parties during the day . Our husbands got along well and golfed together. Holidays, husbands and wives gathered in one home or another and we all partied together. We all loved our beautiful neighborhood and homes and vowed we'd never move. Once we women spent several days getting together and making dozens of home made pies . Another time we had the worst winter ever, It was 40 below or something like that with the wind chill factor. The streets were covered in ice. I had a party scheduled, even with a fire in both fireplaces and the furnace going it was cold . Not a car was on the street,It was too dangerous. I looked out the side windows of the entrance hall and saw my friends coming down the icy street from both directions. We were always there for one another. Every Christmas we had a cookie exchange .We just enjoyed life. Once a friend had the plumber coming so we all sat in her family room drinking champagne and laughing while the plumbers fixed the problem in her powder room. What fun we always had. Although I had a rich full life I'd always had a desire to own some income property. My husband was busy with his career so I asked him if he'd mind if I started buying property. I bought single fami...Expand for more