Mary Eagleson:  

I was married two times and have two great kids. I have seven Grandkids and the fourth Greatgrand child is due the first week in Aug. 2009. OK I have added this because the baby was born on Aug. 14th 2009 and it is a boy and her first. I don't get to see the others because there mother is still finding her way in life and is young and rebelious and hanging with the wrong people And diffinatly won't listen to her Mom and I. One thing I have learned that if you let them go they will come back to you. Forcing them to do what you want not what they want only pushes them away. I worked as a waitress after school when I was married and then when I divorced and remarried we moved to Las Vegas, where I became a Black Jack Dealer at the Stardust Hotel and Casino. They blew it up last March to make room for a newer and larger Hotel. It was sad to watch. It was on TV. My girlfriend there and I cried, because of all the memories. Then in 1983 I moved back to L.A. and started my own landscaping company. My son worked with me even though he was in school. It kept him out or trouble. One day he wanted to go with his friends for lunch and I said no we have a lot of work today and I will be picking you up early. Later that day the boy he would have been with,who was our land lords son along with another guy were in a car accident. Their car slid right under a truck and the landlords son was injurded very very bad and the other kid who did not like sitting in the front only got scratches and the police said that if my son had been in the car, because he was so tall, that he would have been decapatated. I was shaking and threw up because it really scared me, that if I didn't make him work, he would be dead today. I kept that business until 1999. My son then wanted to do something else and he didn't want me to do the business without him. I respected that and I ended the business, because he was right. The men that L.A. has out there looking for that kind of work were not trust worthy. In fact one guy put his hand on my leg while I was driving one day and I said " I have a gun my my side so I suggest you remove your hand." of course he did. I drove him to the side of the road and said walk home. Of course I had no gun there but he didn't know that. Yes, it was hard work and my son and I enjoyed what we did. It also taught him a trade h...Expand for more