I Never Knew...

Wow, 2 weeks without a post. Long time. I have a feeling, though, that these next upcoming days will be post-filled. Stay tuned!

Anyway, this past weekend, I was in Northern Virginia for my cousin's wedding. During that time, my parents and I stayed at my paternal grandmother's house. As many times as I've been to her house, I never really paid attention to all the meaningful things she had - all staring at me on shelves. Because I had always seen them since I was little, I stopped noticing them a LONG TIME AGO. All these things were just THERE to me. Then this weekend something came upon me and I started asking her what things where, where they came from, and why she had them. Little did I know that these "knickknacks" were all collections from her and my grandfather's travels (as Ethiopian government officials), old gifts given to them, and heirlooms passed down from my great-grandparents. I don't relish over material things, but I like saving some meaningful things to me. Good thing my grandmother did that with some of her stuff. It acts as a visual supplement to stories I hear and helps me connect (in one way) to my grandfather and great-grandparents that I was not fortunate enough to get to know. Right now, I'm still in the process of collecting more facts about some of the things I found at my grandmother's house, as I did not have enough time to do so this weekend. I have included a link to view pictures of some of these tokens. Some I don't remember at the moment when and where they're from, but I will update them later on. 

http://picasaweb.google.com/msrahel/FamilyHistory