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Do You Have Pictures of Your Kids in Your Wallet?

I was looking through some photos yesterday and realized that I have a gazillion pictures of Tyler but I don’t carry any pictures of him in my wallet. I remember back in the day when you would ask a person if they had kids and out would come this accordion montage of that person’s offsprings. Today, that same person is more likely to whip out their cell phone and show you a few digital images. That’s exactly what I would do. It got me to thinking- do parents still carry photos of their kids in their wallets or have we … Continue reading →

How Do You Want To Be Remembered?

Author and education, Michele Borba, Ed.D, has a question for you: How do you want to be remembered? She wants you to imagine that your kids are all grown up with families of their own. They are reminiscing about their childhood and describing what it was like to have you as a parent. Do you want to be remembered for all the activities you signed your kids up for or for the simple lessons you taught your kids, like how to laugh, how to act with confidence or how to be resilient? Do you want to be remembered for the … Continue reading →

The Candy Lady

One of the fondest memories I have from my childhood was going to the “candy lady”. Seems like every neighborhood had one. The candy lady was usually an elderly (at least to us kids) neighborhood lady who sold snacks from her house. Candy, of course, was on the menu along with cookies, chips, soda and frozen cups. For those of you not familiar with what a frozen cup is, it’s basically really, really sweet Kool-Aid, frozen in Styrofoam cups. Sometimes during the hot summer months, she would have ice-cream treats; individual treats or she would simply dish up a cup … Continue reading →

Creating Childhood Memories

The one thing I regret about my childhood is that we didn’t take a lot of pictures as I was growing up. In fact, I have very few pictures of myself with maybe the exception of a few schoolday pictures. I don’t have any baby pictures of me at all and then Hurricane Katrina came along (uninvited) and ran off with most of my middle and high school pictures. Although I managed to save all of Tyler’s pictures, I had pictures of myself in my high school memory book and it was too waterlogged and mold-infested to save. After Katrina, … Continue reading →