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For parents and children of any age, looking at the calendar and discussing the special details associated with each day can be a fun morning ritual! Celebrating what you want to remember from years past as well as being thankful to have gotten through other days can bring laughter and authenticity into your relationship!
For spouses, adult children or siblings who have become the primary caregiver for another adult family member, this activity can be a fun way to orient a deteriorating memory or physical abilities. It can lay a morning foundation for some laughter in a season of hard days!
Items Needed: Block Calendar or Wall Calendar
Key Target: Memory, Planning, Narrative Skills
Key Ideas: What ordinary moments have made great days? What extraordinary events make months/years stand out? What do you remember? Anything that is scrapbooked or journaled about this day? What days stand out as growing you and bringing joy to the journey?
Optional Scripture: “ Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.” - Psalm 84: 5-7 (cross ref Proverbs 4:18)
PLA Steps (Purpose, Linking, Anticipating)
Work together through arranging the blocks to show the correct day, month, date, and year.
Discuss & share what stands out from this season/date from childhoods, early adulthood, later adulthood. Was there anything about this time of week, month, or year (i.e. deadlines or responsibilities) that was related to former occupations?
Discuss what stands out about this specific day (i.e.doctor appointments, special visits or activities)
anything to add to this day to celebrate, remember or show appreciation for a day in the past/ anything to add to this day to practice hoping for or anticipate this day next year / any scrapbooks to look at today to commemorate?
EXTENDED PLA:
Option 1: Roll just month block and see where it lands. Try and remember any special dates that go in that month,
Option 2: Roll just date blocks and try and remember special moments from personal history that goes with those dates and share.
Option 3: Roll year blocks and share.
Option 4: One describe a memory, the other person tries to remember the date and arrange the blocks to show it. Share if that is correct and laugh when get it wrong!