Today is Friday and that means 'Show and Tell' over at Kelli's....
Before Christmas almost every member of our family asked what I wanted for Christmas......my answer was," I'll think about it".......a couple of weeks before Christmas I asked our two daughters, their husbands and our eight grandchildren to write down their memories of coming to our home......good and if any bad ones, include those also......
Christmas night we opened our gifts from each other and I reminded them of the memories request......
The next day after lunch before everyone left for home, our 17 year old twin granddaughters, Erin and Elisabeth, gave me a package to open.......the picture above shows the binder they made containing the memories.....
Everyone gathered round as we had 'The Reading of the Memories'. The older grandchildren read the ones they had written....fishing and frying the fish, helping me with yard work, dressing up in my hats, shoes and jewelry, etc...simple things.......one son-by-love wrote about the first time he came out from college where he and Mindy were enrolled to eat with us and ate grits and fried fish (Grits with fish is a southern thing).....Amy's husband remembered coming out from college to go to Bible Study with us and staying late to discuss scriptures...... and the Mama's read what the younger ones had told them....the youngest member is 2 year old Alexander.....his memories were brief and to the point.....gum-gum and naner's (bananas)......
Each year, Lord willing, we will add to our Book of Memories....we're writing a book for posterity......
Do you have a special family memory?
