" ... Maybe one day he will be a stamp collector. ..."
Regardless of his eventual philatelic interest he, and perhaps the others, will remember the time you spent together.
In the last two years I've been visiting my children and their extended families, spending a month or two at each home as they have spread out across the country.
One day as one of my daughters was chatting with family after dinner I realized that she was saying something I had heard before. She was remembering some time we had spent together about thirty years earlier on a school project about the people of Vietnam, something I had long forgotten.
That reminded me that in a similar setting my older son spoke warmly of the time when I bought him an old clunker and how, on weekends, we had removed the engine, stripped it completely and reassembled it to install in a nice (engineless) Mercury.
Unbelievably one of the girls, now married and a parent herself, talked about similar stamp soaking, sorting and mounting evenings, going into her bed room to bring out an ancient album with several hundred stamps mounted, some actually in the right place.
I had no idea she still had it or she would remember who Captain Tim Healy was.
At each visit, over time something was recalled that I had long forgot, but something that had been memorable to them.
The point is that in the hustle and bustle of making a living, raising a family and managing a chaotic life those moments spent with our children and grandchildren are golden to them.
I couldn't agree more. He would come to me and say grandma can I show you my pictures. Well I thought they were photos no they were pictures he drew and and you could tell he was so proud and explained every picture to me. None of the drawings were very good but in his mind they were fantastic and I only wanted to build that up for him. It would be awesome if he were to take up stamp collecting though.
those who encourage and reward the young have only themselves to blame when the tykes end up succeeding.....
we won't know the path, but we'll know they know they can cut through it to get where they're going
We plant the seeds, and now to allow the growing time.
Dan C
I had been on vacation visiting with some of my family. I visited my son and his family. When I went there I took a small bag of stamps that I needed to sort. I thought I would ask my grand kids if they would like to sort stamps. One of them did and once he started sorting a couple more jumped in and started sorting. Then I told them they could have some of the stamps they sorted and then even the older ones started to look at some of the different counties and shape of stamps. We had a little quiz and they found out where some stamps came from. Every day I was there the first one that said he wanted to sort stamps asked me if he could sort stamps again. So we sorted stamps a few days while I was there. Maybe one day he will be a stamp collector. I will sure keep sending him stamps for as long as he is interested.
I also had the pleasure of meeting a member here from StampoRama in person. That was very nice.
re: Maybe we have a stamp collector
" ... Maybe one day he will be a stamp collector. ..."
Regardless of his eventual philatelic interest he, and perhaps the others, will remember the time you spent together.
In the last two years I've been visiting my children and their extended families, spending a month or two at each home as they have spread out across the country.
One day as one of my daughters was chatting with family after dinner I realized that she was saying something I had heard before. She was remembering some time we had spent together about thirty years earlier on a school project about the people of Vietnam, something I had long forgotten.
That reminded me that in a similar setting my older son spoke warmly of the time when I bought him an old clunker and how, on weekends, we had removed the engine, stripped it completely and reassembled it to install in a nice (engineless) Mercury.
Unbelievably one of the girls, now married and a parent herself, talked about similar stamp soaking, sorting and mounting evenings, going into her bed room to bring out an ancient album with several hundred stamps mounted, some actually in the right place.
I had no idea she still had it or she would remember who Captain Tim Healy was.
At each visit, over time something was recalled that I had long forgot, but something that had been memorable to them.
The point is that in the hustle and bustle of making a living, raising a family and managing a chaotic life those moments spent with our children and grandchildren are golden to them.
re: Maybe we have a stamp collector
I couldn't agree more. He would come to me and say grandma can I show you my pictures. Well I thought they were photos no they were pictures he drew and and you could tell he was so proud and explained every picture to me. None of the drawings were very good but in his mind they were fantastic and I only wanted to build that up for him. It would be awesome if he were to take up stamp collecting though.
re: Maybe we have a stamp collector
those who encourage and reward the young have only themselves to blame when the tykes end up succeeding.....
we won't know the path, but we'll know they know they can cut through it to get where they're going
re: Maybe we have a stamp collector
We plant the seeds, and now to allow the growing time.
Dan C