Family Traits

The windows are open and I hear a bird clicking a noise as if she’s feeding her young, and it reminds me of what sad thought I had coming home from the Mountcastle reunion. I was thinking about my grandma and grandpa Mountcastle having 11 children, and Mom and Dad had 11 children, and not a one of my brothers and sister or their children or mine, were among the crowd. How sad I thouht, not yo honor my mother by getting to know her side of the family. How sad life can be sometimes, it made me wish I had canceled previous plans and went on to the Hamm reunion of 09. I was there last year and didn’t think it was a big thing missing the Hamm reunion '09, but I guess I was wrong. A lot can happen in one year. Maybe, I just realized how old I am getting to be, maybe it is that which make me sad, I just don't know. What amazed me, though, was to see the Mountcastle's traits in five generations down. To see your fourth cousins with the same eyes as their great, great, great grandmother's eyes. My nose is like my grandmother, and my mother. I saw a lot of faces with the same nose and I could pick out the mountcastle blood line. I saw pictures of my great, great grandfather. It was an amazing experience.