Keeping a Grandmother’s Memory Book
January 17, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
In response to my post, Helping Your Alzheimer’s Patient Create Memories, Kaye, of SandwichINK, shared her thoughts on this topic.
What a great idea to spend time reminiscing and writing it down to share with the grandchildren. I did get a book for grandparents to record their memories and filled in some of it with my dad. I just wish I’d started it sooner.
Yes, Kaye, those grandparents’ memory books are great. They’re a good way to start in recording memories. Often they’re all that you need.
And most of us, I think, wish we’d jotted down or recorded more of the memories while our parents or grandparents were still with us or could remember (in the case of Alzheimer’s). Fortunately I had my dad write down some of his memories before he died. Then I began to ask my mom about hers before Alzheimer’s became too severe.
How have you recorded family memories?
