My Children, My Life

My Children, My Life is a generational story based on true events. It tells the Runquists' story, a rich story about a family overcoming hardships and striving to make their dreams come true, a story about teaching children responsibility and allowing them to be responsible. It's a story about starting a small business, a Wisconsin dairy farm, with little to their name and raising their twelve children on that farm. The story reveals how the farm molded the family, while providing the opportunity and freedom to achieve the potential within themselves, to maximize their development, to inspire creativity and to allow the exercise of self-expression. My Children, My Life reveals the Runquist family’s thoughts, allows one to feel their happiness, anger, and passion; and to experience their achievements and failures. The story is an exposé on the human spirit. It’s a love story, an immigrant’s story, an entrepreneurial story, a coming of age story, a story of abuse that crosses multiple generations, and the impact caused by not being able to prevent or terminate pregnancies.