Memories Can be Made at the Strangest Times

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My two daughters and I spent the better part of the day at our local Festival of Trees, and then did a little shopping and had lunch. It is strange now doing things with my nearly grown daughters since they are, well, nearly grown. We decided that since this had been the first time we'd done the Festival of Trees together in a couple years, we should commemorate it by buying an ornament for our tree. It took the bulk of our outing time trying to find and agree on the perfect ornament...

It is strange how some of the things we focus on and work the hardest at don't make the most lasting memories, while accidental activities often do. I have spent hours and hours over the years trying to "create" memories and when I sit around talking with my kids, the things that they remember are generally activities and events that happened much more naturally--ones that really sort of evolved in a more organic way.

So, now in a prominent place right in the center of our tree is the new ornament--a marshmallow snowman sitting on a bar of chocolate and a graham cracker (all made out of plastic or resin, of course) and holding a little sign that says "Christmas 2007" (I'll have you know we fondled a hundred plus ornaments before we found one we agreed on that seemed to "speak" to all three of us)--I am quite certain that whenever I unpack and put this ornament on the tree in the future, I will remember a foggy afternoon with my teenage daughters--an outing, a lot of laughs and sharing mall food as we shared out opinions on just about everything, and I will also be reminded that some of the best memories just happen, they are not the ones I work so hard to direct!

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