Generations

I'm spending some time with our daughter and son-in-law and their daughter Charlotte. Wonderful to spend time with our granddaughter. I saw a picture the other day of 6 generations together. The Great, Great, Great Grandmother was 120 years old. I can remember only four generations together in our family.

Chances are good that you don't live too close to your Grandparents. Mobility has some costs and one of them is missing out on time with previous generations. A phone call works. And so does a letter. Perhaps they even do email. Make a connection again to the older generations in your family.

When you get together with them and have some time, video tape some conversations with them about the family from the past. At our last family reunion we taped the whole bunch of oldest siblings, starting the conversation and then letting it progress with lots of "remember when" stories. Those stories tell us where we have been and a lot about who we are.