Lauren and Maggie are hosting this challenge.
Welcome to the sixth edition of the Throwback Thursday Memory BlogHop where we take on a nostalgic object, event, or memory and blog about it. It’s the last Thursday of September. Hopefully we will be having cooler days, which in my book means more inside time and more time to blog. Maggie, From Cave Walls, and I alternate posting a blog with the title Throwback Thursday – subject of the week.
This week my subject is memories of gift giving or receiving.
You can share a story or poem about yourself, your family, or your friends. Feel free to use the photo above in your post and tag it with #TBTMemory or #IRememberWhento make it easier for others to find. After you’ve written your reply post, please link it here to this week’s prompt page and check to make sure it’s here. You can also add your thoughts to the comments below if that works best to you.
When Maggie and I were talking about my topic this week, we both realized there were a multitude of ways to go with the prompt. Personally, I have been given some silly gifts, some inappropriate gifts, some wonderful gifts, and of course sentimental gifts. If I add in all the presents I have given, the list of options to write about gets even longer.
What about you? What memories do you hold in relation to gifts? Was there some gift so wonderful that you will never forget it? Do you still remember a gift from a beau? Do you put such great thought into the gifts you give, that you hold those memories close to your heart? What about silly gifts you’ve been given or gifted?
Today I ask you to reach back into your memory bank and tell us about a gift you received or gave.
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I would write about the many amazing gifts that I received
But alas my memory refuses to recall any of them clearly
Though I know that there have been many that gladdened my heart
And made me proud to be that person who inspired that loyalty
As for the gifts that I thought up and presented to my loved ones
Those have been so many and so varied
From a simple bouquet and a homemade card
They include expensive gadgets and
pieces of jewelry for my daughters
It matters not the value of the gift you give or receive
What matters is the love that accompanied that gift
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#Keepitalive
#TBTMEMORY
Such a beautiful perspective, Sadje. It is all about the reason for the gift and the love that accompanies it. I am so glad you joined in again this week.
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Thank you so much Maggie. Yes, this is what is most important.
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Too true Sadje. I have Share the love day at work where I give out scratchies to everyone. It seems to make people happy to get something randomly
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What a lovely idea. I’m sure you must be most liked colleague in your office.
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I do the wages 😁
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Ah, that is so true, Sadje. It’s always the love behind the gift. Lovely reflection.
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Thank you so much
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You’re most welcome. Always.
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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the love and the thought or motivation … so very true!
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Thank you so much Kate.
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I agree, its the love that is put in to the gift giving and or recieving that is what counts!
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Thanks 🙏🏼
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🤩💝
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❤️
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Thank you for joining us again Sadje. I love your outlook. It is the love behind the gift that counts so much, I remember so much love when I made various gifts for ones I love.
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It’s my pleasure Lauren. I can imagine how much effort you put into your gifts and how much they mean to you.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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I try to put a lot of thought into what I give. One of the memorable gifts I got was from my sister. She knew my birthstone was opal and got me some opal earrings it was clever because she put them on the leaf of a rose she gave me in a vase. I love opals!
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That a lovely gift, made more special because it was given with love.
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