Making Memories Gifts

Will you remember this

'Here you go, kid! A worm.'

"I can't protect you from everything, but I can read you stories that make you believe I can protect you from everything."

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

"There was no other choice, Mom. It was a double dog dare."

My First Camera

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

Mother pours bubble bath into child's plastic pool

"And this little piggy went – whoa! Where is your fifth little piggy?!"

'My first camera'

'For God's sake give me some angst, how will I ever write a misery memoir?'

A boy with a camera

'Admit it, you've been laughing behind my back ever since 1957 when we went in that hall of mirrors in Skegness!'

"We laughed. We cried. But mostly we watched TV."

"Better to have had ice cream and lost it than never to have had ice cream at all."

"I remembered that time you said you wished you had a biographer."

Origins of a family tradition.

Animal and Human Memory

"It was only when I started to write the story of my life that I realised I'd forgotten to have one."

'More pictures of your kids. Wow, they've really grown since yesterday.'

"It's the dog."

"Forget the future, tell me what happened to the past ten years."

'Oh, to be 75 again!'

'What are you doing whining to me about your terrible childhood? Write it all down, you idiot. You've got a bestseller there.'

'This reminds me of something funny. Remember the day I was shopping in that china shop and suddenly sneezed?'

'I'm about to say my prayers, Dad. Do you want more pocket money too?'

"I was all the way to the corner....hen I smelled the chocolate chip cookies!"

"Hurry, hurry! When you get back, we'll finish rehashing 1924 and get right on to 1925!"

'You haven't changed a bit Perkins.'

"I know more about art than you do, so I'll tell you what to like."

'Shredded wheat cereal, cracked wheat toast, and crushed pineapple. I didn't do it. It came that way.'

'He colorized our old photo album.'