Betty Kurtz:  

Lobo.... my keeshund.... he is a great pet.... just took him on a trip he is the best..... If I could improve my home, I'd remodel the bedroom and add on a enclosed small pool. My dream home would be Adobe with heated floors and southwestern interior..... My children have taught me patience, you must finish a task, (pregancy 9 months) what the first 4 tried the last one will know and not try it that way. They will invent a new and better way of doing the same thing only different. RULES do work! You may go crazy trying to keep them in place but it is worth every minute of it.... Let your children be children..... and your teenager ask questions. Get involved. Consistency works! It is hard to be a "PARENT".... but lots of fun and great times. When they grow up what you do in the past becomes their future. If I won $100 million, I'd give 10% to my church and some to a little church somewhere that is in need of it, 10% to charity, then spend the rest on family, friends and needy. My current age is 72. When I was 12, I thought that people my age now would be deceased. I was so completely dumb. Retired! I still read, and keep up with lots of things..... career aspriations.... to be a good mom, and meemaw. No I try to stay within my style.... I dress to please myself.... if i am happy then i think that is what is important.... although i must say i am a little bit southwestern.... at times... My daughters still go through my clothes when they come..... so I must be doing something right????? I share my home with my daughter and her husband two dogs, about 6 cats, which I find fun.... we have a rather large house and large yard.... about 4,000 sq feet so sometime i do not even see them all day..... we come and go and let each other know where and when we are going but it is working..... .My son-in law is a train engineer for Amtrac and my daughter is a Master Gardener. In 10 years, I hope to be still running around..... going places, and of course napping. I'm going to get wherever i go by plane, train (my son-in-law is an Amtrac engineer, or by car if i am still able to drive...... or one of my children or grandchildren can drive me around in my cool car.... a dodge magnum with a Hemme..... they get a kick out of that.... but right now i don't let any of them drive except for Winston..... he does not go fast.....(although i think he would if i were not with him-he is not perfect you know) My oldest friend is Anita Macias. She is from Heidleberg Germany.... came to this country with Henry in the 60's and did not speak any english..... i met her through our daughters friendship and have been friends since then.... we still talk on a regular basis and get to gether when we can...... My first job was at Houston Lighting & Power Company, downtown where I got paid $275 monthly for Customer Service. That was back in the days when you listened to the customer (because they were always right) and if you had any bad thoughts you just jotted them down on a piece of paper as you listened to the unhappy customer........ Sometime their home electricty was accidently cut off when we did a cut off somewhere.... by accident of course! I did not work long because my second daughter became very sick and i just could not leave her...... did not go back to work until much...much later..... What I remember most about this job was talking to customers and pulling the files from the big file drawers on the wall to do cut off's and turn on's. . May Festivals..... at the Roosevelt elementary school where i went.... every year we would circle the May Pole with pretty paper and flowers. We would wind it around and around..... I think every grade did something but i can't remember now.... You never saw little girls in pants..... dresses! I always wanted to be a nurse when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a great idea. As it turns out, they were almost right..... i became a mother of 5 girls, 8 grandson's 2 granddaughter's and 3 greatgrand daughters, and a grandson.... so cuts, scraps, broken bones you name it and we probably had it..... so i think every parent is a care giver at some point in their life..... .