Heritage Challenge No. 32 { family reunions }
This week we are going to think about family reunions. Be they large or small . . . it is always wonderful to have family close by and sometimes it matters not if we have 50 or 5 people to have a good time and to share fond memories! I have been to reunions of over one hundred people and recently went to a delightful reunion of six girl cousins and my 96 year old aunt! No matter the number . . . they were both wonderful reunions!! And, both would be wonderful to document as well.
If you have memories and/or photographs of family reunions I would love for you to join me and post your layouts in the Heritage Gallery. Family reunions are a time of excitement . . . often in the busy world in which we live we don’t write or talk to our extended family often. We may not see each other until a funeral brings us together. This is why reunions are such a joy to share. It is a time to remember the fun things in our own past and to learn more about the history of our families.
My page is a reunion from 1934 where several members from my grandmother’s family met in Alabama. I cannot imagine just how many hours it took to drive from where my grandmother lived to where the reunion was held . . . it must have been quiet a journey. I love that they have on their Sunday best . . . and that they are wearing their fabulous hats! Katie’s little postage stamps with the ladies and their stylish hats were just what I needed to give my page a little “style”!
I used the following products from the Designer Digitals store for my layout: Across the Meadow Kit, Classic Cardstock: Natural Beauty, Clock Parts No. 05, Collageables No. 02, Digitally Pressed Petals No. 03, Exploring Layered Template, On the Corners Brushes and Stamps No. 01, Postcard Journalers No. 02, Posted for Mom Postage Stamps, Schmeared Blocks No. 02, Vintage Flashcard Words: Love No. 02 & Whip Stitching No. 01.
I just have to include this quotation from Erma Bombeck . . . she always makes me laugh! It reminds me of stories that my mother and her five sisters told of their growing up together.
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”
Have a wonderful Labor Day holiday!
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