Solomon is King!!

I love traditions!! I love making memories with family and friends that we do repeatedly. I long for a tradition that goes for the rest of my life!! My husband and I have a really sweet tradition we do every Christmas visit. We go see the lights at Irvine Park. This year we have an even sweeter reason to participate. Our little sweet boy Loves lights! This morning he smiled at the lights that came on in our van! I'm hoping these will be sweet memories for him! King David also participated in beautiful traditions! One was at the appointing of King Solomon to his throne!

He had King Solomon mounted on a mule. In historic times such a tradition meant the leader took a servant attitude to the people. The mule had a wreath of flowers and a drape around it (thanks to Beth Moore's bible study!) Here's what kind of got me about this... how many kings before participated in this tradition? To me feel tradition is something I can't wait for it to be "my turn" With my family I'm the "tradition maker" and I love it!! What would our world look like if we had such an honor for traditions? I think that's why I love pictures so much!

Just like traditions they tell a story. I love museums too! I love learning why things are the way they are. If I were there in Israel when King Solomon was appointed King I think I would have a huge smile on my face! There's something that's so beautiful about following an ancient custom that I just love! I would love to go to Israel someday just to look around and see a place with such rich history! I would really love to take a tour and see where the Apostles started the church. This last spring we watched the show A.D. on NBC. I thought it was so cool to see what the environment looked like or might have looked like and who the Apostles could have been. Things like that fascinate me!

I think traditions mean more to me though. Why would anyone do something over and over year after year? The only response I can give is that it's important. I guess to me traditions communicate "you're important enough to establish memories with." So now "it's my turn" and I want to make as many memories with my family and friends as I can, because to me you are important enough to make memories with! One of my favorite memories we make are game nights! We have one coming up soon hope you can join in on the fun!

It's just so fun to laugh and get together with people we care about and just be us. Whether that's silly, competitive, direct, opinionated, sleepy, wired, squealing with delight. These memories to me are golden! We're just people with a lot of the same struggles, desires, and aspirations, but in the hours we play together we just kind let it all go and have fun! I'm so happy to have married a man that likes to have people over just as much as I do! We really do make a good team!

Throughout life we'll all have plenty of opportunities to reflect on memories. When I do I want to have many about the lovely traditions we've established for our family! I want to know that most of my time wasn't spent alone or just on my corner of the world. I want to know that I made a difference in other's lives. I want to open up my home to family and friends so they can feel welcome to share and make memories too! If you've been to our home you'll see a lot of pictures. I often look at them and remember what was going on in my life when these were taken. This is the most beautiful part of my life and you'll be able to tell by all the pictures documenting it!  I hope and pray we can make many beautiful memories together! When you need to remember something pleasant I hope you can say it was a time we spent together!

I love you with all my heart! May you make beautiful traditions and memories with your loved ones!
Tina Martina Putney