A Thankful November: My Childhood

You can think of this post as the Saturday’s Old Photo, too. I’m multi-tasking.

There are many reasons I’m thankful for my childhood, but this post focuses on only one aspect of it. I grew up poor, because my parents were either students or missionaries during my whole childhood. Not that I was aware that I was poor, because we never went without anything we really needed. There was one time when things got so tight that a can of tuna purchased on sale had to be returned to the store in order to buy baby formula, but according to my mother, that was the worst it ever got, and that’s not quite the bottom of the barrel, is it?

But we never had much extra, either. These dresses are the first pieces of store-bought clothing my sister and I had. They were purchased from the sales rack in a Chicago department store for $2.00 each. It would be at least 5 years more before I had another brand new dress, although I would’ve had a couple of new winter coats in the meantime.

I’m thankful that I didn’t grow up with much, but that I never really went without. It’s given me, I think, an easy relationship with stuff and money. I’ve never had an inner drive to have more and more. So I’m thankful to God for providing everything we needed including my parent’s skill for making enough out of so little.

(This photo of my family is taken in my grandparent’s living room. That’s a photo of my grandpa on the wall above the piano.)

Other thankful folk

• Ann B is thankful for her godly parents and grandparents.
  
• Ontario Kim is thankful for music.
• Carla is thankful for her grandpa.
• Hiraeth Kim is thankful for Saturday.

I’m inviting your participation, too. The instructions  are simple:

• Mention something you’re thankful for in the comments here, and I’ll included it in one of my thanksgiving posts, or
  
• Email me to tell me what you’re thankful for and I’ll include it in one of the thankful posts, or
• You may post your thankful thought(s) on your own blog and send me the link(s), and I’ll link to your post.
• If you’ve posted something thankful and I missed it, please remind me.