gifts for grandparents..????

FingersCrossed_2

mary43 wrote: »

Fingerscrossed - your granny sounds just the sort for a Journal in a Jar...somewhere she could put all these thoughts and memories down so they never get lost or forgotten.

I thing the Journal Jars are a great idea. Unfortunately my granny has glaucoma so needs to read everything with a magnifying glass. I could do the prompts in a big font but think she would find the writing tricky with her sight!

When I was in my first year at high school I had to do a family tree project. For part of it we had to ask Journal Jar type questions to our grandparents. I am so glad I did it as I now have memories from all 4 of my grandparents and now I only have my granny left. There are always tears when I read it though....

mary43

Sorry to hear about your granny's glaucoma but at least you've managed to glean some memories from her that are worth keeping.

My Mums in a care home and one of the optional activities was for residents to do a 'life story'..............my Mum loved it. She couldn't do it herself as she'd had a stroke so a carer asked the questions about different periods in her life and wrote down what Mum said. It makes such lovely reading and although Mum talked to me a lot about her childhood there was still a lot I never knew before................like when she first met my Dad...........he danced with her as a bet with his mates, after which he said she was the one he would marry..............lol

emay

I've just 'borrowed' my Grans case of photos (which she's had stashed on top of a wardrobe for years) and am going to put everything into a nice new album for them, the current albums were the sticky type and have lost the stick so every time yo turn a page you lose the photos (prob why she never has them out!!!) So I've got a nice big 'slip-in' one so she won't lose the pics anymore. I am also going to get a chunk of the very old ones copied, enlarged, repaired etc.