November 13

I was perusing Amazon late one night a few months back when I came across a sale on Ancestry DNA kits. I'd waffled on taking a test for a long while, so I bit the proverbial bullet, bought one, and sent in my sample. And today, I got the results.

And officially, I am, as Isaac and Brady put it, the "whitest of white people," which means that I'm 100% Western European: a nearly even split between British and Germanic European with a bit of Scottish, French, and Welsh tossed in for good measure. Save the "Switzerland" subcategory that accompanied the Germanic European designation (because that I didn't know), it's more or less what I expected, given what I'd heard from both sides of my family over the years.

But it was still really interesting and even a little exciting to get a peek of God's blueprint for my make-up spelled out right there on the screen of my laptop.