My mother was a single mom for a long time when I was a child. I know that at one time, we must have been extremely broke because I remember living in an apartment with no phone service, and I remember her car broke down. I remember we walked to the grocery store to get food, and we lived on Kraft macaroni and cheese and those little individual frozen pizzas (hey, I loved it!
)
The thing about it is, though...I never in my life felt
poor. Looking back, I know we must have been, but I have never known hunger. At many times during my life, there have been things that I have wanted, that we could not afford. There have been times that I remember my step-father being out of work, and we even had to use food stamps at one time in my life when I was a kid, but somehow, we always had a roof over our heads and food to eat.
When I look back on that and other times in my life, I never think of is as being poor. And while,
now, we're not exactly rolling in money, we have a home, wonderful friends, relatively good health, and a loving family. And for those things, I feel very rich, indeed.