“I watched Ruth gobble up a cucumber right out of the garden and thought of Grandma Allen. One day she told me that if I ate any more cucumbers out of their garden, I would turn into a cucumber,” my niece related.
Making Memories with Grandma image: sxc.hu
Preserving your family stories provides enjoyable activities for children and adults. It’s important to record these memories in some fashion – recording, writing them down, taking or sketching pictures – for our own enjoyment and to save for future generations. They’re part of our family heritages.
As I read what my niece related, more of Grandma Allen’s sayings and admonitions came to mind. I could picture her saying this to a granddaughter, and then sharing incidents from her own childhood.
- Keep a notebook at hand to jot down sayings and activities
- Snap pictures with your camera or cell phone
- Develop a blog where you relate incidents you don’t mind the public viewing
- Share on your Facebook wall, if they’re occasions that won’t embarrass anyone
- Create a scrapbook of photos and sayings
How do you preserve your family heritage?
(In the Kidoosh “members only” section, I’ll give more detailed instructions for preserving one’s family heritage.)
About Mary Emma Allen
