Ideas

Kellie and I had a great conversation yesterday. Her and Dustin were talking about this book and had a great idea.

Sometimes it's hard to just write what you are thinking/feeling/remembering. So, what if, for a little while  (until we get this ball rolling at least!) - we post some prompts to inspire your writing about Grandma and Grandpa? Things like - Post a memory, recipe, or thought about Grandma and Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthday's, color's, etc. Each week, we would put up a post with a theme. If something comes to mind, or you feel inspired by it, you write. If it doesn't feel like something you want to write about, you dont have to. And also, on that note, this book is completely voluntary! You are absolutely not obligated to participate in this, but we obviously hope that you do.

I have loved reading all of the posts so far, and I cant wait to read more. For me, this is something important because in 20 years, I would love to be able for Addison (or another grandchild) to be able to pull out this book and find a great family recipe to make for her family. Or to be able to read stories about her Great Grandma. I think that preserving Bob and Virgie's memory is very important. Also, a thought I had, would be to interview Grandpa. I think it would be great if everyone could come up with a question to ask him. We would collect the questions and when they are all in, we would send it to Grandpa and let him write out his answers and return it. Just a thought. :)

Also, if you want to be an admin on this blog so that you can edit and what not, I'd love to have some help with it. And I would love to have any input with this as well. Feel free to shoot me a line or call me if you have any suggestions. Also, if you haven't sent me your email address so that I can add you as an author, please do so! We cant do this book if we dont have people involved. I know that lives are super super busy! (At least ours feels that way!) We initially wanted to do this by Christmas but that wont be possible, and then moved it to Grandma's birthday of next year. I feel like that might be a stretch as well. So, we will not put a date or deadline on yet. But, at the very least, please let me, Katie, or Kellie know if you are wanting to participate in this. <3

-Jord