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It is amazing how fast you can have a handful of memories! Yesterday I decided to check out the Old Christmas shop. Every year we buy our children ornaments for Christmas, so that they can someday have a tree full of memories when they start their families. The only year we did not give them ornaments was one year when my husband lost his job. We couldn't afford to buy them that year and it will always be a year to remember God's Faithfulness to us. No ornaments, but oh, so much more!
Well, there I stood trying to decide on the ornaments for each child and my husband. Before I knew it I had a handful of memories and could have easily had an armful of memories!!! I did not realize that in just a little over 3 months we had made so many memories here! There was the chicken for the son who carries them around and talks to them all day long. There was the tractor and the bottle of milk (to symbolize our first time of goat -milking) for my husband, the ring-necked pheasant for another son who keeps seeing this "guy" on our land, there was the bear for my son who is impatiently waiting to see his first wild bear here, there was the beautiful sparkly "princess" type horse for my daughter who is ALL GIRL and loves our horses, and there was the ride-em rough horse for our youngest son who cries when you take him off our horses. And I had so many more ornaments that I could have bought because of the memories that we had already made here! I didn't realize that we had made that many!
Every day we are making memories with our children. It may just be the memory of seeing a bug or the memory of floating down the river with Dad in a canoe for your first time. It may be the memory of how you spoke to one another, a look, a smile, a hug, so much more! And we think that we have to take our children to the city to make a memory??? Or to a museum?? A different state? There are no second chances! Enjoy the day. Love your children! You have more than a handful of memories!
Walking in Faith,
Michelle |
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