It’s been a few years since I’ve taken a moment to post here but today, I felt inspired to do so again because I think I actually miss it!  

I was sitting here in my dining room, watching a soap opera on my iPad because my darling daughter is currently watching some even worse trash tv, when the side of my fridge caught my eye.  Why did it?  Well, I was thinking that the side of my fridge tells quite a story of life.  Aside from the magnets of nothing remarkable, there are pictures that remind me of past times, when joy was the number one feeling.  One of the memories is from a birthday dinner for Dave when we went to a restaurant with 2 other couples. At some point during the dinner, they offered to snap a Polaroid of us.  A joyous moment frozen in time.  The only kicker is that one of the people in that picture has since died of pancreatic cancer.  It is a picture I treasure of him with us. To the left of that is the memorable magnet of my cousin who lost his battle with depression and my aunt had these magnets made up when we celebrated his life last summer.  Below that is the playbill from my son’s 100th show for the stand up comedy he adores at his university.  Dave and I got to drive down for that and see him in his element…not that I’d ever say that about my son being in the spotlight but my goodness, he was front and center.  Below that is the award my darling daughter earned this school year after she taught herself the Russian alphabet, worked with the Russian teacher, memorized a whole bunch of stuff, went to Olympiada, and won a gold medal!  She has a talent for learning languages that I don’t understand but stand in awe of her skills.  A little further on the right is the Montclair Seahwaks swim team magnet.  Yes, it should be on my car, but instead it’s on the fridge, reminding me of the upteen hundreds of hours we’ve spent at the pool, friends we’ve made, the success and losses in a variety of pools, and the fun my children had with their friends.  Despite the fact that it’s cluttered and appears to be a random smattering of crap, it really tells a story about my family.  The loves, the losses, the joys, the lows…all memories to be cherished.  One day I’ll take some of those things down as time passes but it will be somewhere safe and replaced with other momentous memories.  

Cheers!!

Leslie