It’s finally here! This December, we get to celebrate Christmas AND finally making it through 2020.
One of the things I am thankful for this year is the extra time with family. Em and I were able to spend several months with family this year. After playing so many card and board games, we eventually broke out the old family photo albums. For some reason I had an ever greater appreciation this year of looking through old photos and hearing my mom’s stories of raising a family of boys.
Something about being stuck with no distractions during quarantine made me want to treasure family memories even more. (It also made me want to take daily stock of how many toilet paper rolls we had left =)Â
A few Christmases ago, Em’s family gave her grandparents StoryWorth as a gift to document their memories and it is something their entire family treasures. Em has written about the details of StoryWorth here and here, and she is constantly referencing stories that her grandparents had written in their StoryWorth book. It has been a great way to tangibly capture the wisdom, memories, and life experiences of her grandparents.
StoryWorth is always a great gift, but I feel like it is especially so this year as we have all been reminded that life can change very quickly. I don’t want to forget those memories and stories that we were reminiscing about while looking through old photos.
StoryWorth also allows for families to still be “together” even when we have to be apart. Em’s grandparents would answer their weekly email with a custom chosen question, and then the whole family would respond and email back and forth. At the end of the year, StoryWorth compiled all those emails, stories, and memories into a custom made book. It was basically like receiving a beautiful auto-biography from her grandparents! Yet thanks to the way StoryWorth is designed with those weekly questions, it’s the easiest way to capture a lifetime of memories without being too overwhelming.
StoryWorth makes the perfect, thoughtful last-minute gift! There’s no shipping, so even if you wake up on Christmas panicked because you are the only sibling who didn’t get your parents a gift, StoryWorth has you covered ;) It is a great way of preserving those precious memories with family for a lifetime.
