When she was 5 ...

She told me tonight that she remembers when she was five years old and there was a neighbor that used to come over and bring her family some food. My mother grew up very poor.

She knows that it was in 1940 because it was the second house that they lived in. She doesn't remember the first house. But she knows that my Tia Mariazinha cut my Mom's hair in that first house - and threw all the curls out the window. As you can imagine, it didn't leave my grandmother very happy.

Anyways, she remembers the food being delivered though. And that there was other neighbors that would help with cultivating the land. That her and my aunts would go and watch them work.

She's amazed that she remembers something from so long ago. I amazed that she came from so little and that my Mom and Dad were able to give us such a great life.