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60 One-Minute Memory Makers Fun and Easy Ways to Create Family Memories That Last a Lifetime By By David & Claudia Arp Introduction We’ll never forget those few weeks before Joel left home for college. It was summertime, but the living was anything but easy. Our goal that summer was to have one more family vacation, but the harder we tried to work things our, the more difficult the scheduling became. Jarrett, our college junior, just got home from Airborne School, had a job as a driver at local car dealership. Jonathan, entering the ninth grade, was busy with tennis tournaments. Joel, the college freshman, was trying to squeeze the last few pennies out of his maintenance job at the tennis club – while recovering from mono and getting ready to leave for college. And we, as parents, were trying to figure out how to provide our boys with one more family memory – but nothing was working! Finally in desperation, we called a family caucus. We had lowered our sights and were now trying to find one 24-hour period when all of us could break away for a mini-vacation. Even that was not coming together. Jarrett finally asked, “What’s the big deal? Why is it so important to you that we do this?” We explained that we wanted to build one more family memory before Joel officially left home.
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