Journey with Julia

**Memories**

As someone else kindly pointed out, when looking at our gingerbread house, we're not making messes, we're making memories. You may have noticed that even though we are far from our families they loom large in our memories and in fact in our daily conversations and lives. We have very much wanted to make sure that Julia got to share in some of those memories. One of the reasons we have been on the road so much. And as Ohio is just tad bit closer than Maine it has become the place we run to when we need a good dose of family.

We've (meaning mostly I) have been doing some serious Internet shopping lately to get things wrapped up for Christmas. I was just looking at something for G.G. when Julia popped in to check on me. I asked her opinion, to which I got a bit more a reply than I was expecting. She said "yeah, that's good for G.G. she will like it" pause.."G.G. gave Ashley, Allie and Tyler and me cards, and I opened it and I went back and told G.G. Thank you." Which is by the way exactly what happened, I just wasn't expecting her to remember all of it quite so clearly, I should know better.

Memories indeed, I'm off to share in some more with this sweet child now. She wants to go play with the chalk.