happy memories

Last Friday the kids were all here for supper so we could celebrate Tim's birthday. We had such a wonderful time catching up with what has been going on in our lives and just general chit chat. After supper we gave Tim his cards and gifts and sang the traditional "happy birthday".

I'm not even sure how it got started, but we got to talking about "way back when" stories. We laughed a lot remembering funny stories about each of the kids and it was interesting to see how the same event can be seen so differently by the individuals involved. Some stories the kids shared were brand new to Tim and me.

The neat thing was a lot of the memories that were brought up didn't take place on some vacation or huge event. It was the every day moments that have made an impression of how we lived. It tells me my children saw that I valued each day with them -

whether we were on vacation or at home,

played a game or went to the grocery store,
worked on homework or baked cookies,

did laundry or read a book,

talked about serious topics or were silly...

Whatever we did, we just lived life together. What happy memories!