For the longest time, I have been nagging my parents to get me some pictures of their parents to put on my wall.  You see, family history is very important to me and I wanted to share my family history with my children.  I thought that having a picture of my grandparents would be a good first step in accomplishing that goal.

But, sometimes parents can be just as bad as children for forgetting to do things.  I think I had been asking them for well over two years to get me some framed pictures for the wall, but I just wasn’t getting them.

I had a nice surprise at my last birthday though.  There were some large, wrapped, rectangular presents just for me.  I unwrapped them to find pictures of my grandparents.

But these were not ordinary pictures - my parents had put the photos onto canvas to create family heirlooms of my grandparents.  It will be a gift that I can pass down to them when they are old enough.

I am so happy to see photographs of my grandparents on my wall - I miss them so much…