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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

Top Things My Mom Did to Make Christmas Special

My Mom just loved Christmas. Because of how she grew up (Living on the Edge ), she liked the simple joys in life. Here is the top memories I have of our Christmas growing up. 1. Every day around Christmas time when the mail came, my Mom threw the other mail on the table, but [...]
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

The Family Archivist – Preparing for our Photo Scanning

Some of my customers don’t know where to start. They open their closet doors and view the disorganization of the photos and videos and then close the door again. It seems overwhelming. But they want to experience again the memories that these photos hold – to see them displayed on their computers du
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

Meeting my Grandmother

I didn’t really get to know my Grandmother – my mother’s mother – until I was 26. It was my second occasion ever to see her. The whole story is quite complicated. My Grandmother Ruby left her family when my mother was 6 months old. She abandoned her 3 sons and husband to run off [...]
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

The Basement

Our basement was an integral part of my childhood.  It was the place in our home that I could get away from everyone and experience solitude. It was my time in my childhood to figure out who I was as a person with some genuine thinking and reflection. It was also a place to have [...]
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

Saturday night

For a family that didn’t have much money (See My Dad – the Original Organic Farmer ), we sure did have fun on Saturday nights. Friday nights were taken up with football or basketball (See Football Boogie ). Saturday nights were reserved for playing cards or board games, sometimes with just our famil
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

Twinkle In His Eye

I recognize fun. In the transition between a person’s thought and the first inkling that something spontaneous is about to happen, I am on full alert to participate. I’m drawn to it like a magnet. And if anyone else has that predisposition for fun, I can tell it in the first minute of meeting them.
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

The Great Neighborhood Water Fight

They say Ohio is a great place to raise corn, pigs, and children. I absolutely loved the way that I grew up. The neighborhood was our playground, and the plethora of neighbor kids – who ALL owned bicycles – were our playmates. We didn’t take Family Vacations during our summer breaks, but every summe
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

Like a Kid in a Candy Store

My mother grew up in the Cumberland area of Tennessee during the Depression. They had no electricity or running water – unless you counted the mountain spring that ran beside her house. My mother was the only female in her house and therefore was in charge of most of the household chores. She cleane
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

One Sure Thing

We knew each other before we were born. Or so it seems. The way we think alike, our inherent understanding of each other, our imprint on each other’s souls has been there since the beginning of time. Our families lived 3 miles apart from each other when we were growing up in a little farming [...]
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Sharing our Family's Memories · 1Y ago

The Expression on Grandma’s Face

My paternal grandmother Edith married when she was 14, on October 4, 1911. Her husband – my grandfather, Harry – was 38, 24 years old years older than his bride.  My grandfather is the in the front row on the left. My grandmother, his new bride – is in the second row standing, second from [...]
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