Memory box ideas for my children

Hi Sarah, I am so sorry to hear about your husband, A memory box is a beautiful idea one which I share my children are all mid 30s and my grandkids are 15 down to 1 month old. Sarah i am doing video messages letters and cards, covering first days at school from infants to university and exams, leaving home, falling in love and having children. messages of emotional support and encouragement and xmas and birthday cards and a messages to each of them telling them how much i love them and what they mean to me and mum. I love your idea's and will adding many of them, PS I will also be doing one for my wonderful partner who will make me the happiest man in England by becoming my wife in 12 weeks. my best wishes to you and your beautiful family.

love Eddie xx

Hi Eddie,

Thank you so much for your reply! How wonderful you have children and Grandchildren around you, that is so lovely you are putting this all together something they will cherish forever and will mean so much, thank you for the idea of cards that's a brilliant idea and something I will now also do as well as all your video messages that so precious. Thank you so much for sharing this with me.

Finding out about my Husband has completely devastated me and everything feels like such a rush with the short time we have been told we have left, I really worry about missing something, just want to have all i can for the children. I know having these memory boxes will be something that will help us in the long run, especially our children.

Congratulations on your up coming wedding that is amazing news! I hope your wedding is everything and more that you dream of, sending you all my love and best wishes to you and your beautiful family too 

xxx

Hello again Sarah, if I have helped you in any way that is thanks enough, though thank you anyway, and your kind message regarding our wedding is very much appreciated by us both, Sarah I don't want to give false hope, I am on the living with incurable cancer forum, where many of the guys and ladies are well past the time they were given, I apologise if this is insensitive, I will ask the guys on the forum about ideas for a memory box and will pass any good ones on. PS I was thinking of leaving a lock of hair to them all but wasn't sure it was suitable, your opinion would be appreciated, well past my bedtime, 

love Eddie xx

Hi Eddie, you really have helped a lot! Your message is far from insensitive, he was given a few weeks to live and he has had a few bad days however the majority are really good it does sometimes lull me into a false sense of security and I sometimes think maybe all will be fine, however these are just fleeting wishful thinking moments,  however i do feel like we will have more time than we were told, we are currently on 3.5 weeks and are just enjoying every second together as a family and just hoping we get as much time as we possibly can, so this gives me great comfort knowing there are others that are still with us past the time they were given. I suppose its all we can hope for.

Really appreciate you asking others for me that really is so kind of you! A lock of hair sounds really lovely. I must admit i was also thinking of this but am yet to run it past my Husband, i personally am really sentimental and for me i would really treasure that, i say go for it! another thing that just came to my mind was his finger prints .

Hope you are now asleep and still not up

thank you so much for being so kind and thoughtful xx

Morning Sarah, I am happy to have been able to help, it's good to hear most of his days are good, though I do understand the down days these are pretty normal for us all, as is trying to be positive and making the most of what time you have,  and hopefully more than you have been told, I  have been through a few posts looking for ideas for a memory box and I think we already have the good ones,  someone did say they had put their partners voice on their sat nav which I'm not sure about, but maybe finger prints in some way, here's to a little bit of hope, best wishes. 

love Eddie xx 

Hello Sarah, I'm so sorry you are in this position.

The memory box is a lovely idea and I'm sure your children will cherish and treasure it in years to come.  

You could make a photo book (very easy to do online), annotating pics of favourite trips and holidays.  What about a copy of a book they used to enjoy sharing with Daddy at bedtime? The words of Daddy's favourite song? 

Sending you love, strength and the biggest hug. x

Thank you so much all, heartbreakingly my Husband passed away 1.5 weeks ago. We are completely devastated, even though we knew it was going to happen it still really doesn't prepare you for it. The pain and void is so overwhelming.

The memory boxes are helping so far and i love that idea cherry2, since organising the funeral its been comforting going through all our photos so i think a photo book with annotations is such a lovely idea! Im going to ask all our family and friends to send me a photo with them and my husband along with a memory and put a book together of this too, just so we can look over all the wonderful and funny memories other had of him. 

I still cant believe he is gone, he honestly was my soul mate and my person, we met age 16 and spent 23 years together, I am grateful we had that time together but i always imagined us growing old together, i just feel deep pain and an endless void. I have comfort in our two children who remind me of him every day, not only do they look like him but they have his characteristic. Thank you Eddiel and Cherry2  for all your help and kind words 

Hi Sarah,  I am truly sorry to hear about your wonderful husband, my sincerest condolences to you and all his loved ones, and if I have helped in any way I  was happy to do so and I would like to thank you for the support and advice you have given me while going through such a difficult time, you are an amazing person to do so. The photo album with personal memories from friends and family is a wonderful idea so thank you and Cherry for that. Sarah words are so inadequate at these times so sending hugs, my best wishes to you and your beautiful children.

love Eddie xx