I make my cup and add just a tiny bit of sugar and set back to work. After letting it cool for a few minutes, I pick up my cup, breathe in the wonderful aroma and I am instantly taken back 22 years to being an 8 year old little girl sitting in the kitchen of my oma.
Why is that so special?
I am so glad that you asked that! So my oma was my great grandmother on my mom's side. My grandma was born and raised in Germany and that is where she met my grandpa. Anyway, so my oma was actually my grandma's step mom. Her birth mother died when she was a very small girl and my oma pretty much raised my grandma. When I was 8 and my sisters were 6 and 2, my mom and grandma took us to Germany to meet and stay with my oma for vacation.
We got to meet family that we never knew existed and have not spoken with or to since seeing them. A lot of my memories of that vacation come from pictures and the stories that we tell but the ones that I remember most took place in the kitchen. Watching Oma make soup for dinner and my grandma telling us about when she had my uncle, he was so tiny, they could not keep him warm so they kept him in the oven (door open, of course) in the kitchen. We only knew our uncle as the big guy he was at the time and could not imagine him being so small that he would fit in there.
Every night that we were there, my oma would make us Sleepy Time tea. We had never had it and with the small sprinkle of sugar that Oma added, we fell in love with it. I have been drinking it ever since then!
So I am ready for bed, now that I am all toasty warm from my tea. Plus my wonderful boyfriend is waiting for me!
Tell me...what smell brings back a fond memory for you? Leave it in the comments!!!
Until next time!
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