Dang, I guess that's what you can take out of this of you wish. The funny thing is that I did not mention how the kids learned to roller blade on our tennis court, because it sounded like bragging. Or how the ultimate mommy car is a classic Rolls with the privacy partition because you can roll up that glass and it drowns out their bickering. So I did make attempts to not make life seem privileged. And yes, we were well off in those days.  But I promise you, when my kids lost their dad as young teens, and all but lost their mom in the process, stuff we had meant nothing. I married quite young and never worked, so I was ill prepared for the hard road before me. I didn't handle it well. At all. So I'm not sorry to recount happy times and relive good memories. Even if some find it offensive.  And I'm far from an awesome parent.  So much of what I did right was either an accident or something I did for the wrong reasons.