This book takes you on a journey with a single mother of five children and how she grows her family grows to the pieces of eight children and survives them all. There is heartache and happiness along with tears of joy and sadness sprinkled throughout these stories. She finds good from every bad situation, sharing her wisdom with her pieces of eight throughout the book. Discover how she finds love and happiness in a near tragic encounter with the man she will spend the rest of her life with. This nonfictional collection of adventures takes you on a trip down memory lane with highs and lows and twists and turns. This book will take you on your own personal trip down memory lane and helps to relive childhood memories. I enjoyed the trip and I hope you do to.