How to create the perfect memory....

Time with our family is so fleeting, we sound exactly like our parents when we say to no one in particular, "I swear it seems like yesterday, that boy was sitting and rubbing grits in his hair!"  As we watch time speed up, we are determined to create the perfect memory at every occassion, holidays, weekends, evenings with the family, to just a simple trying to make breakfast.

Here's how to create the perfect memory.  Start with a foolproof plan, sit up late the night before and write out hour by hour or minute by minute how you want your memory executed.  Think of everything that could possibly go wrong and list out several different possibilities of fixes (your A, B, C plan).  Make a list of equipment used for recording this precious memory with either family assignments for each piece of equipment or how you will juggle the video camera, camera and camera phone because no memory is complete without some type of post to Facebook.  When it's time to make the memory inform everyone of your schedule and how you expect them to act and how things are supposed to respond, along with all your other contingency plans.  Let them know what is expected of this memory, and the feelings it is supposed to invoke in each family member.

With all the bases covered and the memory waiting to start, to make it perfect........

Chuck everything you just did out the window and go with the impulse, the memory will then be stronger, funnier as things go wrong, and happier because it was spontaneous as all perfect memories should be!

What's your game plan for making memories?