I woke up this morning with the overwhelming need to find out what my family’s favorite memories of my kids were.I don’t know it was like I know what my favorite memories of them are and to be honest it has taken me this long to realize what some of them even were. For example, Justin loved to spend time with grandpa. When grandpa got home from school Justin knew that he was going to feed the horses so he would go help. Another example, is how he would always tell grandma : “This is dang good Grandma!”. I think my mom is the best cook in the world hands down; however, to hear him say that was just a reminder to me,at least, that we were lucky to have a mom and a grandma that was a good cook. My favorite is Justin’s Thanksgiving hand turkey. On his hand turkey he had things he was thankful for: my mom, my grandma,Spencer,my sister and, the icying on the cake, love my family always. I am gratefful that he put that on his “feathers” because it reminds me every time that I look at it that his family was/is the most important thing to him and that families are eaternal and he knows that.
I have few readers who knew my kids so my favor is for you to write down your favorite memories of your kids somewhere where you can read them often to remind you of what special kids you have and what they bring into your life. If, by chance, there is a family member or friend,who knew my kids, reading this post please post your favorite memory or send me an email with that memory because I would like to have it to put with a memory book. Thanks!
I think that my favorite memory is the nickname for Mikael(Lacey’s husband. It was “Tough Guy”. Before Lacey got married and was living at home she would seek out Raquel,who wouldn’t she was pure sunshine, and play with her or just hold her and what had appeared to have been a rough day for my sister just seemed to melt away.
Memories are just flooding in! it has made my children seem more real than just a dream. I remebered this weekend how much Raquel loved hot chocolate. Grandma shared hot chocolate with her in the morning. The kids and I would play house under the trampoline and we alway had hot dogs and popciles for “dinner”.