Friday, August 3, 2012

Sentimental Things

I was at lunch with two of my favorite gals from work the other day and I got a tuna salad sandwich.
 "This is really good, but it doesn't hold a candle to my mom's tuna salad. Technically it's my grandma's tuna salad I guess", I said.
"Oh yeah? What does your mom put in it that makes it better?" Amy asked.
I had to stop and think about this - she doesn't do anything fancy or out of the ordinary with it. Just celery, lite mayo and some hard boiled egg whites - pretty standard.

 I realized it's not really the tuna salad itself that I love so much - it's the fact that my mom makes it for my dad even though she thinks it's disgusting. I remember walking into our kitchen and seeing the ingredients for it, and then seeing how excited my dad would be when it was ready. I always loved that, and I guess that's now what I associate with tuna salad. 

After explaining that to my friends, both Amy and Katie offered up their own stories of how they sentimentalize simple things, too. 

Do you have anything that seems ordinary to other people, but will always be special to you for a sentimental reason?

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