I love making memories! I try to be very intentional about creating ways to remember the time, the people, the place, the purpose, and the joy of the event. I am blessed to apply this philosophy of life to the times I spend with my granddaughters. What a gift from the Lord! And what an honor given to me by their amazing parents, my stepdaughter and her husband, who allow me to “BE” Grammy. (Thank you, Angela and Forrest!) Spending time with these three little girls, Celeste (almost 7) and her twin sisters, Tallis and Brynn (almost 4), is always a chance to do something with them that will help them remember how much they were loved and cared for by their grandparents. 

This love of making memories goes back to my own childhood. I inherited this trait from my own mother who knew how to build the anticipation so that when the experience actually happened, you were ready to enjoy every ounce of it! She taught me how to get excited with joyful expectations for just about anything. This love of making memories was the motivating factor, I’m sure, for my being high school yearbook editor and for enjoying travel photography of my worldwide adventures. I like to remember things visually. (So why am I not an avid scrapbooker?) 

What has prompted all these thoughts about family memory making is that Mark and I just spent two fun (and too brief) days with our granddaughters and their parents. We made cookies with the rolling pin and cookie cutters. We read books snuggled under the covers on the big couch. We played board games on a rainy day. We put together a tiny plastic vet clinic where the plastic vet helped the plastic horse get a “flea out of its throat.” We watched the girls “go really fast” on their bikes outside. We had family fun! 

Which brings me to my biblical woman for this week: Mary, the mother of Jesus and the family memory maker. How do I know she was the family memory maker? Let me see if I can explain . . . 

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