I can relate to her birth order as my first four children were two years apart and then had we a gap of 7 years before my fifth child was born. I always thought of him as a “family” baby as his older siblings all enjoyed him.

My husband and I were both raised with step parents and siblings and it made us all the more determend to stay together in our marriage. We will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary next year!

I so agree that food and cooking is a wonderful way to show love and draw people together. I made three separate traditional Irish meals last week for three different grown children, in CA and UT, within four days, at their request. I told my husband I never knew that meal and the memories associated with it, meant so much to them!