A community of women finding time for family connections.
“Fer the world is full of roses
And the roses full of dew,
And the dew is full of heavenly love That drips fer me and you.”
— James Whitcomb Riley (1907)
I love roses, because they remind me of my grandmother. She had so many rose bushes and she tended to them like they were her children.
CAROLYNN REYNOLDS
As David Eagleman put it, “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
When we think about “doing” family history, we often think it involves digging through records, going to graveyards, and trying to find names and documentation. And while all of these things are definitely parts of family history, there is so much more.
Family History can be something as small as speaking one of your ancestor’s names – keeping them alive. This becomes even richer and rewarding when you connect those names with tangible experiences.
I have found great power and joy in bringing my ancestors back to life – or keeping them from succumbing to the 3rd death. As I have learned about my ancestors’ lives and then created experiences for my children to connect with them, I have felt the immense joy and power of family history.
I hope to be able to inspire and teach you to find family stories and revive them so that you and your children can connect with those who have come before and paved the way for you.
Summertime is a perfect time of year for this as children are out of school and there is more time to create experiences together.
If you’re curious, and want to go ahead and get started, you can check out the link in my Instagram account @goodmorningshelly to see how I have been implementing this idea of bringing my ancestors to life (Pioneer Unit and Swedish Unit.)
I would love to hear any ideas for how you could bring your ancestors to life. Please feel free to share in the comments.
Hello! @Annie.hutchings here 💕 I’m a wife, Momma and Photographer. I share daily photo and journal prompts on my feed to help you record your family’s history while you live it. Can I be honest with you? Never in a million years did I envision myself doing any kind of family history. I was super intimidated by it and frankly thought it seemed a bit boring. 🙈 It just sort of fell into my lap about 5 years into owning a photography business. I had reached a space where I needed change and was questioning the purpose of this gift I had been blessed with and was wondering if I was doing any good on this platform, or how I might be able to. I remember asking God “How can I be anxiously engaged in a good cause?”. Still struggling to find my way I began to write. I wrote every gift I had been blessed with and what I believed Heavenly Father would have me do with that gift. This is how my prompts came about. I was absolutely shocked when this idea came to me because I can tell you right now, it wasn’t mine!! I started posting my #weescoutprompts and the funniest thing happened, my relationship with my children totally changed. Every Sunday I spent time sitting on their beds asking them questions for my prompts and writing down their answers. They beam because they feel special, they feel heard, and they love the one on one time. If we miss a week, I get some not so subtle reminders that Mom needs to ask them some questions. 😂😍 This bond has been such a fun and unexpected blessing from this project. These prompts can be used though Instagram with photos to be printed into books or they can simply be written into a journal. You can do them occasionally, once a week, daily, OR to keep it super simple.
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We would LOVE to see you using the prompts and share them in our stories. For us to be able to see your posts to share them, make sure to TAG @seasonforfamily on your Instagram account in your photo or post AND use the hashtag #weescoutprompts . If you have a private account, send us a screenshot of your post to our DM.
