I have five grandchildren. The day after each was born I wrote them a letter. From then on I write each of them a different letter on the first of every month. Does anyone write letters for their Grandchildren to read when they are older?

Of course we won't know if "the story" ultimately has a happy ending or not until long after that time, but at least he'll learn how, when times were tough, he had a family who came together, orked hard and sacrificed for his sake.

Hopefully that will be worth more than anything else I'll be able to leave for him?

Another thing I have done is to fill out a, 'Grandmother Remember's" book ( think there may be Grandad Remembers books too), for one family. Will do it for our other son's children down the road.
The book is meant to be filled out for individual children but when there is many of them, I feel they can share the book and have some special pages in it of their own, (copied from the book).

Cathern

I'm writing a story of my life for my children and grands. I have 10 grands and I think it is a little late to try to make individual books or boxes of memorable things for them. I have never sorted all my pictures. I really should have over the years but when you have 5 kids growing up and doing all the necessary things and also try to do a few things you really "want" to do, you just don't take the time to sort pictures and put them into an album. Well at least I didn't want to. After I started making quilts I did keep track of them and tried to make an album. One of my daughters critisized me for doing that and not making an album of family pictures. Oh I really got away from the subject. So what it boils down to is if hyou can and want to save things for your grands do it. If you don't then don't. And the way I have decide tohandle it is to write mylifestor so they will know what my life was like growing up in the middle of the 20th century compared to theirs. purplelady