My Legacy

I have decided that next summer I am going to begin a project I like to call My Legacy. With everything going on with my mom and talking with my grandparents about their childhoods and where are ancestors are from, I realized that I want my kids and grandchildren to know everything about me. And heaven forbid I pass away before I am old and gray, they will have something to read that gives them not only information on my life but advice. Like tell my kids about my first relationship (the highs and all of the lows), how they should save their money (especially in high school), they should travel as much as possible, that it isn't just a cliche statement to judge a person by who they are on the inside, to teach them that your size does not matter but your health does. I feel like I have already learned a lot in my short life and I want to write it all down. I think it will be nice to look at it when (hopefully) I am old and start forgetting these early years. And I want my kids to know me, because let's face it, most kids when they are teenagers don't really try to get to know who their parents are. I have this project I am doing for Christmas with my Grandma (I can't say exactly what it is because Amanda reads my blog and she is getting the present but if you want to know send me a text) that will hopefully shed even more light on my Grandma and other ancestors history. For example, I have a great great great grandmother (maybe another great in there??) that was a nurse in the Civil War (for the south of course.. uh oh) and met all of these generals and was given prestigious awards for her service in the war. Just these little things I think really let us know about ourselves. I really think it's important to know where you come from to help you know where you are going. And with the My Legacy project I hope to be able to show my kids where they came from.