[brabel]

While I thank my parents for having invested so much of their lives in me, I do hope that they had the chance to do most of the things that they liked while bringing me up, and I surely hope they do that now that we're all grown up and independent (unfortunately, in my case, one parent is dead and the other doesn't really have the energy anymore... I wish she would just have fun and enjoy life, but it's easy to say when you're young and healthy).

[graemep]

One of my kids is grown up, the other is nearly so.

The thing I most liked doing in my life was bringing them up so I did the thing I most liked. It WAS fun and enjoying life.