I recently just purchased a new digital camera, a Nikon P90 CoolShot. I have to say it’s a very cool little camera.   I’ve never really been one for photography, and maybe it’s simply because the last 4 digital cameras’ I had never gave me the opportunity to get real excited about it.  All 4 of them crapped out on me and ended up in the recycling bin.   Thank the heavens for grandmothers!

My mother who is your typical grandmother has stacks and stacks of pictures from the time we were born through to the time my children were born.    It’s quite interesting going through the pictures and revisiting older memories, times that seem almost a life time ago.    

It made me start to realize that, other than the memories I hold in my mind, these photos are all that are really left of those times.  And trust me, the way my memory has been “holding” things lately, I can’t count on it for much longer…LOL! 

It really dawned on me as I was looking through the stack of photos, how much has taken place over the 37 years that I’ve been on this little round planet.    Really it’s quite amazing! 

Seriously, do it now….sit back and think about all the things you have done, seen, been a part of… it’s pretty friggin’ impressive isn’t it?  

Although, I may tease my mother about the 100 or so pictures of my son as a newborn, in exactly the same position…the same picture…over, and over, and over again, she actually has the right idea.

You see, she’s a memory keeper, and whether she knows this or not, somewhere along the line subconsciously she was given the task of recording our family memories, documenting all of those important “firsts.”   She has given us all the precious gift of remembering.  Giving us a medium to use when our memory fails to retain it all!

So, I decided the time had come, to start my own path as memory keeper…hence the purchase of this nifty little camera.   I’m making a commitment to ensure that my children and eventually my grandchildren, will have the stacks and stacks of photos to go through…and yes tease me about the 100 or so pictures of my newborn grandkid in exactly the same position, over and over and over again…LOL!

Memory keeper what a great responsibility —how about you…up for the task?