CREATE Memories: Five Minute Friday

I am late to the Five Minute Friday party because I have been very busy creating memories with my children. Most of the time, I would have stopped what I was doing to address the prompt (especially since I hadn’t posted this week), but when I saw the prompt word was CREATE I knew I had to keep doing what I was doing. So here I am joining almost at the last minute.

It’s 3:00 Thursday morning. As I write this, I am in a chair that I moved in to the hotel bathroom so I don't disturb my family as they sleep. 

In almost 20 years of marriage one of the things my husband and I have consistently agreed on is that we wanted to make memories with our children. This is so important to us, that my husband even made stickers that adorn our vehicles, pop-up camper, and boat that all say "McDonald's Memory Maker"

For Christmas we would ask Grandparents to purchase family Season passes to Houston area museums or the zoo. It was difficult for them to do this because they wanted to see the face of my children light up as they "opened a box of goodies". We made it a point to call the person who gifted the membership each time we went thanking them for the Christmas gift that we were benefiting from much longer than the toys they otherwise would have received. 

Stuff will break and wear out. My children will forever remember the time spent together, enjoying and annoying one another in new ways and at new locations.

If you’ve been following my blog, you may remember my post on Mother’s Day about the posture of parenting. (you can visit that here) We are in a season of change. With one of my daughters being 16 and a Junior in High School, and the other turning 15 and starting her Freshman year in High School, I am keenly aware of our limited time together. 

Very soon they will have jobs or be gone to college and their schedules will be ones where there won’t be much time for family experiences. (Quite frankly, if they are like I was, they will look for every reason to avoid family time, but I hope not)


I also know there will be the day when they have a special person in their life that and it will no longer be just the four of us creating McDonald Memories. There will also come the day when they will eventually be tasked with creating memories with and for their own families. While I would love to be included in that, I have no guarantees.

So please forgive me for being late to the party--and also for rushing off again so soon. Today is my 45th birthday and I get to spend it creating memories at Disney World... Don't we look cute in the shirts we created? 

The girls surprised me with a tiara to wear today...YES! Big girls are Princesses too!

I am joining with #FMF a group that challenges us to write for only 5 minutes on a given word prompt. This weeks word is "CREATE". Feel free to see how other bloggers responded to this week's word.

We are all Correct: We May all be Wrong

Perspective is important. A person's personal

experiences will cause their perspective to lean a

certain way. They will defend that perspective

because it is their reality.

Another person will have 

a different perspective 

based on their personal 

life experiences, and that

person will defend their 

perspective just as 

emphatically.

Each person's perspective is their authentic reality. 

Neither person is incorrect.

The issue comes in when

each side is unwilling to

acknowledge the other 

has an authentic position

and dismisses them

completely. 

Maybe that is why God

said we are to LOVE one another.

"So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as Ihave loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world you are my Disciples.", John 13:34-35, NLT

My lenses are different than your's, but I love you

enough to recognize that my lenses aren't the only 

ones that are looking at the issues. I love you where 

you are and where you come from. I love you as we 

both travel to a place where we can look at things

through the perfected lenses God wants us to see 

things through.

Open the eyes of our heart Lord, so we can find the

unity that comes through You and loving others the

way you want us to.

 "Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths of your instructions.", Psalm 119:18, NLT

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