Thank you for reading and please accept my condolences about your mom too.

Wow, 8 kids, you've got us beat! :) So glad you enjoyed closeness with your mom too. I was so dumb when I was little, I thought everyone had relationships like this with their family. When I got older and saw more I wised up and realized what a gift I'd been given in my mom and my family. I'm so eternally grateful.