Take Me To Post Comment Form Holidays serve as markers in our family timelines. We tend to pay more attention to the events that take place on holidays. We snap photos or take home videos. And each time another Halloween, Christmas, or Valentine’s Day rolls around we are reminded of the holidays of years gone by.

Recently I flipped through an old family photo album. In the album were several pictures taken on Fourth of July two years ago. There were shots of my daughter, Rebecca, then just two years old, admiring a platter of red, white, and blue sprinkled cupcakes. There were pictures of me, six months pregnant with my second daughter, wearing a sleeveless denim maternity dress and sporting a natural glow. And there were photos of my younger brother, Ricky, just days before he moved to Japan, where has lived ever since.

Looking at the Fourth of July pictures in that old album brought back a flood of memories for me. And somehow knowing that it had been almost exactly two years since the photos were taken made the passage of time stand out even more clearly in my mind.

This Fourth of July represents a chance to form yet more memories. And so, I plan to soak in the sight of my two little girls in their red, white, and blue gingham dresses, I plan to savor the taste of my mother-in-law’s homemade ice cream, and I plan to appreciate this very last holiday before my daughter, Rebecca, starts school. On this Fourth of July I have an opportunity to mark yet another spot on my family’s timeline, and I intend to mark it well.