When i look at my children, i want to remember everything about them, so that is why i keep this blog going. It is easier to write, take photos, or make home videos as keepsakes. I think when they grow up this will be great to have and pass on to their children. I will want to publish some of my entries into a family memoir to pass on to them. My father used to take pictures of us when we were little, and every christmas he would pay for a photographer to take a family portrait, and i tell you i love looking at those albums.
I don’t know about you, but there are people in my lives are far gone now, that all am left with are their memories, and sometime i sit alone trying to remember their face, and i can’t seem to find it. I never met my great grandfather, but throughout the years i had heard a lot of stories about him from other members of our family. No one ever took a picture of him, so all i know is who they say he looks like. My great grandmother was around and was believed to have lived to over 100 yrs, but also no one ever took a photo of her, now that i think about, i can’t just believe dad never took her photo.
Great grandma loved telling us tales, every night after dinner we would sit around the fire place and listen to her tell us all sorts of stories, and you could tell she enjoyed it too. I am sitting here wishing we had a video camera back then and just tape the whole thing, that would have been a great gift not only to myself, but to our entire family.
Everyone in our lives matters, so try to capture each others memories as much as you can, so when the time comes when they are departed we will have more things to remind us of their lives. All my grandmas are gone now, and all am left with is a memory…i still remember their warmth, their smiles, their caring ways, and their advice, ooh and their cooking! There was just something about grandma’s cooking, no matter how much i had ate, i still asked for more.
My children have yet to meet my mom, their grandmother, and i just can’t wait till they meet both their grandparents. I am excited for them, and when they do, i will make sure i capture all that in print and video for them, so they can always remember.
The holidays are around the corner, and most people give each other a lot of gifts, so i challenge you to find away to get together with your extended family, if you are close by, and get family portraits done, make a home movie, collect photos of your children and other family members taken throughout the year and make a calendar. All this are great memories that one can’t get enough of for years to come.
Goodnight.
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