In my first blog I wrote about the power of memories and I challenged everyone to take out the video camera and record the kids sharing their memories from the prior year. I finally did the same with my family on Friday.

For those that don’t know me, I have four kids-a 16 year old step-daughter, a 13 year old daughter, a 5 year old daughter and a nearly 3 year old son. On Friday we made pizza together for dinner and went upstairs to record our memories…something I try to do every year with them.

I started doing this a long time ago with a vision of pulling up the recordings of my kids sharing their favorite memories from that year with their kids. Can you imagine? Sitting together at Thanksgiving with your children and their children? You pull out a video from 2010 of mommy Monica when she was 13. Her kids see her sharing about the time when she went sledding in the late evening on the fresh snow with her dad (grandpa) when it snowed Thanksgiving week of 2010. It kinda warps the brain to think about it. I believe that Monica will watch the video and the memories will come flooding back for her as well.

How about watching mommy Amanda sharing about walking around in Old Towne San Diego with her brother and sisters? For Amanda, the memories will flood back as if she were just there. Then there is mommy Noelle. She was only 5 in the video, but her memories are as vivid as the day she was camping at Keller Ferry with her family in the motorhome and playing in the wind with her best friend. Noelle’s kids now understand why the annual camping trip to Keller Ferry with the extended family is so magical.

Nathan will be sitting there with his wife and kids. He was not even 3 years old in the video and now he has a 3 year old son of his own. He’s sharing about the fire truck he got for Christmas and decides he’s going to give his son a fire truck this year for Christmas.

Debbie and I (e.g. mom and dad, grandma and grandpa) are filled with tears and joy as our family laughs, loves, and remembers the years that we became a family. We are thankful that we decided to record these precious memories.

Will you join me and make a video of your kids sharing their memories from 2010?