Snapshots Of Life

Simple things mean a lot.  I like simple.  The most beautiful wedding I've ever attended was in a little white country church with just a handful of people.  The bride was lovely in her simple white, delicate lace dress.  The groom was handsome, wearing just his Sunday suit.  No tuxedo, no expensive wedding dress with long train.  The flowers were equally beautiful.  They were simple arrangements of Queen's Anne lace picked from the roadside of an Alabama highway.  I saw that bride just a few months ago at a family funeral.  She commented about her husband of 20+ years, "I just love that man!  He's the best man in the whole world."  Imagine that.  She's still in love.

I like simple.  The older I get, the more I want to simplify my life.  It's the simple things in life that mean so much to me.  It's not the new car, or house, or expensive jewelry that make me happy, no it's that tiny blue flower a little boy picks for his mommy.  It's the time your husband cooks dinner for the family because your not feeling well.  It's the little note scribbled by your daughter in first grade, that says, "your the best mommy in the world" that you'll never forget and that you'll always cherish.  The proof of that is that you still have it tucked away in your dresser drawer.  

Yes, simple says it best.  I like simple.  I heard the following phrase several times while in college from my professors about lesson planning and it was KISS, which stands for, "keep it simple stupid."  

Yes, I love simple.  I'm not a fancy person.  Never have been and never will be and I like that simple fact about me.   

I was thinking the other day that life is like snapshots.  You can't remember everything, but we all have snapshot images in our minds.  Certain things that have happened to us or that meant so much to us and that's what we remember.  We have these little snapshot images in our minds of our lives.  

So I surmised that life is like a snapshot album. 

 So make some memories today.  Take some snapshots, but I'm not taking about with a camera, necessarily.   You'll always remember that day you and your daughter baked cookies together, or dad took you fishing.  These are the snapshot images of our lives.