#write31days – Organize Your Keepsakes

This one is tough for me.  I’m not really a keepsake person.  I guess I’m not very sentimental.  But, I get it.  Mementos of moments in time that are important.  I’ve kept some of my kids baby clothes.  I still have my high school gymnastics team leotard tucked in a drawer.  I have a shirt that is in tatters that I bought when I lived in Salamanca, Spain for 6 weeks.  I kept a scrap of a towel that my husband cut up for me years and years ago when I wasn’t feeling well.  He cut the towel up and wet a piece of it and microwaved it.  I can’t find it now, but I kept it for a LONG time.

There are many things in the house that remind me of people and places.  But, mostly, I find myself thinking about how to make the present moment memorable.  I don’t live too far in the future and I definitely don’t live in the past.  I just do my best to make a happy life for my family.  I don’t always succeed; I don’t even always do my best, but my my intentions are always good.

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