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My Heritage
My Scandinavian Family Heritage
In every conceivable manner, a family is liked to our past, and a bridge to our future. We all live in a family setting that can consist of one or many of our relatives. Growing up I lived with my mother, father, and my two younger brothers. I was born in Wurzburg, Germany due to the fact that my father was in the Army but I grew up in rural Portland, North Dakota. The nice thing for me growing up was the fact that both sets of my grandparents and my aunts and uncles also lived there. I believe our family traditions and the cultural legacies came from my ancestors, grandparents, and my other relatives. Our family traditions and our cultural beliefs contribute to our family values in which we follow today. I believe we take the parts of the past that meant the most to us and we also combined it with the new traditions we follow today that were created by our family. As a family style we make a house a home with love to share with all that live there.
“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards the things we live by and teach our children are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings,” by Walt Disney. What is family heritage; it starts with our past and shines into our lives now which it leads us with the hope into the future. Dictionary.com states; “something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; something inherited at birth such as personal characteristic, status, and possessions; anything that has been transmitted from the past or handed down by tradition.”
I live with my boyfriend Cody and our three sons Joshua, Jackson, and Layne. Cody’s ancestry background is Scandinavian as well. We both are Christian’s who attend a Lutheran Church in Grand Forks, North Dakota. We attend our church monthly for services along with special occasions such as weddings, baptisms, conformations, and holidays such as Easter and Christmas.
I know for a fact that we follow in our parents

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