MOMDAY AND I AM THINKING DEEP THOUGHTS

Sometimes I wonder about my heritage.  I know when Grandma Olson came over from Norway they were very poor and like many immigrants looking for a better life.  I don't know how fate steps in to our lives sometimes, how she met Grandpa Olson, I know he was born in the U.S., they married and Mom was born in 1916, Cora the firstborn in 1906, so Inga was 21, probably Married that year when she became pregnant.  Grandpa or R.C. sat down at age 52 with Rheumotid Arthritice, he was a farmer because his Dad died but I guess he always wanted to be a lawyer, this is hearsay according to Mom.  
The reason I mention all this is because I always felt we were poor white trash.  It's a funny term, my Dad died when I was 7 and here Mom was pregnant with number 5.  I simply don't know how she managed for the years when she was married to my Dad.  We lived in a sack behind the body shop in town when he worked there in two rooms.  He was never home and when he was he was out drinking and carrying on with other women, according to Mom.  He worked road construction.  Don't remember him at all.  I look at my siblings, myself, to see how far we have come and have we made our parents proud or have we lived down to them.  I can't be the judge.  
Pretty deep stuff for so early in the morning,  I was reading my daily devotion today and how Christ is our perfect gift.  We sure have moved away of making Christmas so commercial, I am glad of that, so many in need and so many charities that can use our help.
I worked hard all my life and accomplished so much, did well for myself but see my girls struggle, life is so much easier with a partner.  It may just not be meant to be for them at this time.  Timing is èverything, we sold our house in Burnsville at the right time, retired at the right time, my second marriage works so well, he manages our finances, I would make a shambles of it.  We love each other and care so much about so many of the same things.  We are truly blessed and I thank God and that I have God in my life.  Jesus is the reason for the season.