The Road Not Taken

This post is a bit close to home. My home. My old home where I spent half my childhood.
We spent 6 years living in a little country town many years ago. It was only 6 years, but they left a deep and lasting legacy.  It was where we meet the beautiful C family and that alone is such a wonderful reason to give thanks to God....

When you drive out west you see a fair bit of this...

before you finally see this.

As a child this road and these buildings seemed so big and vast. They don't seem quiet so big but they certainly make my heart smile.

This path is where I first started to practice riding my red bike without the training wheels, where i walked to the dentist and where I walked home from the swimming pool....

This was our home and our shop - where we played, cried, didn't eat my dinners and used the old valiant roof as a trampoline!!!

This was also our home. Our other home. Our dear friends home. Where we also played, cried, didn't eat my dinners and where we held many amazing concert nights...

It was only a quick visit. To honour a strong, faithful woman of God who has passed on & now is resting in Heaven with our Almighty Saviour.  We went back also to honour her daughter - our dear friend and to acknowledge the wonderful, strong, caring, giving woman that she is.

With heart's filled with love and souls filled with warmth as only dear friends can fill you, we said our farewell, so very grateful to God for the Friendship that He bestowed upon us those many years ago when the baker's family and the Farmer/CRT shop owner family lived opposite each other.

      

On the way home we were treated to this glorious sunset to end the day....

"...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

...Robert Frost

Be {a traveller}

Makin' memories for mum...

I'm really trying my best to catch up but darn it, life just keeps happen'n  :)

So anyhow here is a super sweet family I worked with last year.  The sisters had a special birthday present for their mum planned and it involved watermelon, aqua, white, a retirement village and a little bit of sneakiness!!!  Sounds like a crazy gift right???  Well in actual fact it was a Fantastic gift.

Photos of their families to give to mum/nanna. A moment in their life. Who they are, where they are at. The women they have become. Something tangible and real. Memories that will last a life time. Moments that will bring back memories in years to come.

Memories of 2 sisters holding an empty photo frame cause the crazy photographer lady asked them too... and well, they are just too polite to say no!

Memories of silly giggle's over nothing...

of kickin back with the man you love...

There is also the little things to remember. The way little miss C holds her hands together in laughter...

or maybe the way master C could stick his tongue out through the gap in his teeth (very cool)...

It is always nice to remember what it feels like to be held by your soul mate...

 and the way it makes you feel when you are all together...

When you look back at that moment together, hopefully it will make you smile...

and then there is the memories of cousins and all the crazy antics they get up to together....

not forgetting the silly things siblings can do...especially Miss A and Master T !!!

Just being together for a hour or two can create the most joyful, lasting memories and bring a special gift to someone that we love.  Time together is so precious and so  important. Without it we can not build those memories...

 so go and make a memory today. whether it's playing Uno after dinner, letting the kids have a super large bowl of ice cream or maybe just kissing on the lips in front of the kids, a camera and some senior citizens at the local retirement village...

"Think left and think right and think low and think high.

 Oh, the things you can think up if only you try! "  

  Dr. Seuss

Be {a memory maker}