Heritage

A scrumptious family tradition of ours is to have pork roast, sauerkraut and dumplings for a holiday meal. It stinks the house up, but once we sit down and inhale, our taste buds help us forget the smell. Obviously sauerkraut is a food you love or hate. And now on our second helping of leftovers, we've probably stunk up the neighborhood!

During dinner tonight, I had one of those priceless conversations with my boys.

It was about heritage.

It stemmed from the tradition of making this meal. How my mom did it, my grandma did it, etc. and how these sort of traditions have been handed down for generations. The topic turned to how we are similar and unique. I got such a kick out of how AJ brightened up while he started listing the ways he and I are alike.

He listed how we both have "big eyes". How we both like to have long hair (his hint to wanting to grow his hair out again) and D-Man gleefully chimed in on how we both go to the bathroom a lot. (We won't expand on that one!)

It was fun to listen to my boys compare themselves to their parents and how they have the same traits. As a mom I've been watching these similarities for years. I've enjoyed a front seat view of my cutie patooties growing into their own little sweet self and yet still do things that remind me of me or my husband.

I looked at my sweet boys tonight with such a full heart. My thoughts are already on the teary side from watching them the past 2 days. So full of love and laughter and excitement. So happy to be a part of our family.


I hope that one day they can look back at their own hertige and not just see the sauerkraut and dumplings, but to be able to tell their own children how much their parents loved God and tried to be like Him!