We really do experience some of our best memories in the moment. Not just the big moments, but the really small and insignificant moments that we sometimes take for granted.

Two of my granddaughters were recently visiting. They are three and five years old. Very short attention span‘s. However several years ago I started making napkin roses with the five-year-old. Don’t get me wrong. I realize she really doesn’t know how to make them by herself.  It’s something we do together to form memories.

When we spend time rolling up the cloth napkins together, I watch her eyes as they anticipate the beauty she is creating. I listen to the questions she asks and the happiness in her voice as we complete the rose napkin. I watch her as she runs to momma or dada to show them her newly completed creation. Happily sharing her new skill with them and squealing with delight at their praise.

Now to some, those 4-6 minutes spent making a rose napkin may seem nonsensical or even wasted. For those individuals who experience those emotions I always feel a loss. For they miss the moments of greatness, elation, pride and love when they don’t experience these memory making moments.

For me, I’ll always take 4-6 minutes to make a rose napkin with my grandkids as I not only derive all the pleasures above but I also get to tell my grandchild that I love them to the moon and back, to infinity and beyond, to the the power of a kabillion to forever and beyond. I see them smile and I know their soul heard me. And my prayer is they remember it always.

Yep, life is in those very moments. Here’s to a kabillion more.