My Family Culture

This week's post is something that my husband talks about frequently due the large amount of zombie shows!  I on the other hand do not like to talk about it because it scares me that my children could be in a situation like that.
If a catastrophic event occured and I could only bring three items that represented my family culure, they would be:
      1.  Our family Bible- because it is the word of God our guiding light in which we live by and it has our family tree listed within the pages to show our family heritage.  I would explain that this item is important because it is the only item that contains our only written family history to remember where we came from.
      2.  Our Family photos-because they are our documented memories.  I would explain that these are important to our family because we sit and remember the events that we have done and shared.
      3.  My husband's guitar-this represents our music in our family.  We sing as a family and enjoy music.  It provides a wonderful outlet for us as a family and would be beneficial in a time like this.

If I had to choose only one item once arrived I would be devistated because I had already reduced everything to three items.  On the other hand, I would be thankful to be alive with my children and husband.  I would choose to keep the Bible because it is our guiding principles and documented family heritage.

This exercise has made me reflect on what I consider important and that would best represent us as a family.  Very tough to reduce everything we have to three items, on the other hand, most of what my family is....is literally us.  We represent our family culture and even if we had to leave everything, we would be our examples of our family culture.