It’s interesting that the older we get, the more we seem reminisce about the memories of our childhood.

Suddenly, every finger-drawn painting and American Girl doll begins to hold a lot more value than it did in the 5th grade. And if we’re lucky enough to have parents who hold on to those childhood gems and trinkets, we can have something of our past to bring into our present, and perhaps even share with our children one day. As the years pass, many of us quickly learn that we spent most of our young adult life trying to find our passionate and playful inner child, before the world tried to change us. 

Every person is different and may find childhood sentiment in many different forms: toys, photographs, or even childhood homes. But unfortunately, it is slightly more difficult to store a childhood home in the second shelf of our basement cupboard…So, as irrelevant as those toys and photographs may feel at the time, it is important you hold on to them, or hope that your parents do, until you realize their importance. 

We are shaped by our memories, and everything we touch, eat, or are interested in as a child holds some type of meaning. Many of us, if we’re lucky, get to share those same things with our siblings…However, where it sometimes gets tricky is how the division of those items and potential family heirlooms will be divided one day…and whose future children will get to dress up and play with «mom’s» American Girl doll, or wear «dad’s» Football Jersey when both daughters and sons loved and shared them equally…