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Interview with a grandparent!

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Do you ever sit to hear the stories of grandparents? Or your parents ? Such a precious time – I know I enjoy when the littles ask me about how something was when I was their size. Then sit back and watch their facial amazement when it’s so very different from what they know now.

Dont have a lot of pictures of that special grandparent? Take a photo today and see if they have an older photo to share or copy. Then grab a glass of lemonade, sit on the front porch and ask a few questions. Add those conversation bits with their photos and you are a memory keeper! Let the stories be handed down this summer as you visit family.

Here are a few questions to get you started!

Question ideas:

1. Do you know any stories about the day you were born?

2. What did you like about school days? Favorite subject? Favorite Teacher?

3. What is your most vivid memory of a historical event?

4. What did you want to be when you grew up?

5. What were your favorite games or hobbies growing up?

6. What’s your favorite book? Favorite movie?

7. What scared you as a child?

8. How did you meet your spouse?

9. What’s your favorite recipe?

10. What technology do we have today that as a young person you never believed was possible?

Questions inspired by and adapted from http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/2013-9-8-20-grandparents-day/

Start today and be your family’s memory keeper!

~V

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National Scrapbook Month

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Today is the day we celebrate the art and fun of memory keeping! The first Saturday in May – today! Today is special to me because it’s also my only son’s birthday. So guess how I will spend my day? Pouring over his baby book and those precious pictures and memories of days gone by.

Even my Facebook posts are reminding me of Weston’s birthday with previous years and pictures I posted. The danger is when Facebook moves on (remember myspace??) where do my memories go? How do I recall those amazing moments (ok some are just rants, venting and memes!)? I PRINT, JOURNAL AND KEEP them in a book I can easily access without electricity, internet, wi-fi, buttons, and any other digital way!

Here are a few of my digital favorites

Remember those old ‘magnetic’ albums? Don’t know why they were called magnetic since they had a glue base page with a plastic cover. You could easily SEE your photos but it would ruin them to peel them out of the book. Over time they lost their vibrant colors and looked what we now know to be ‘vintage’ – you know old like the filters we add to our photos to create nostalgia!

So today – take a few minutes to pour over an old memory book, share a memory with someone, make a memory with someone, or even upload photos to be printed!

Should you desire to learn more about memory keeping or memory gifting (I just made that up to label the items I make to record memories and share as a gift!) I would love to hear from you! Use my ‘contact’ form, Facebook, Instagram, text, phone, email, homing pigeon or stop by!

~V