I grew up wishing that I had the family that my best friend had. She was raised with 8 or more children in a Catholic family, and all the kids helped each other out, and it seemed like a Walton family. Last year she told me how things were in her family, and I was shocked. I don't recall what she said, but wow!! I had another friend in college who would take me to her family Christmas parties, and they were so wonderful. Well, they weren't to her.