Share Mother’s Memory Box
Posted on April 16th, 2009 – 2:51 PMBy Kay Krhin
Today we have a reader query. A series of notes and stories about these mom-entos will be compiled to run as a feature on Mother’s Day weekend. Send in your stories! Read below.
From baby teeth to a dog-eared driver’s permit, a mother’s memory box for her child can be a strange assemblage of their lives together.
For Mother’s Day weekend, we’re asking moms what saved item will cause their child the most chagrin, shock or embarassment when it’s eventually revealed? An umbilical cord? A bent fish hook? Send a short note about the item and its story to tellus@startribune.com with “memory” in the message field, or write to Kim Ode, 425 Portland Av. S., Minneapolis MN 55488. But be sure to include your name and address.
Deadline for submissions is April 25.
Hmmmm - I have a few curls of hair, and seven of Ben’s first stitches taped to a popsicle stick. Nothing too embarrassing….yet.
What do you have?
6 Responses to "Share Mother’s Memory Box"
Nothing really shocking or strange saved from my boys, yet. At least nothing as strange as stitches taped to a popsicle stick. (Kidding Kay.)
I do remember being 18 or 19 and pulling a single white shoe out of a box in the closet. I asked my mom about it and she got all nostalgic. “Awww, it’s your special shoe!” “Um, my special shoe?” Turns out I needed a special shoe as a toddler to try and correct the fact that I was quite pigeon toed. Until that day, I’d never known!
I know it’s wierd. I guess I should clarify - the nurse gave them to me like that - thinking I’d want to keep them after she took the stitches out.
A reminder of an incredibly traumatic experience. They were worse coming out than going in.
(It’s okay - I had a “special shoe” too!)
What a club - I had special shoes too. My brother still makes fun of me! As far as my kids mementos though, I have a barrette taped on a piece of paper. My daughter swallowed the match to it when she was about 16 months old, supposed to be in her crib napping. It was one of those metal ones that flexes both ways to clip it. Anyway, I did NOT save the one that we had to “watch for it to pass.” I think saving the matching one was sufficient! Another reminder of a traumatic experience.
LOL, I had special shoes too! My mom didn’t save them though. The only thing I saved for my kids so far was their hospital bracelets, and couple items of clothing, and a half-package of leftover preemie-size diapers. I just took two out of there the other day for their dolls — perfect fit!
No special shoes! Our traumatic reminder is the teeny little oxygen mask the EMT folks left on the floor in the middle of his bedroom after a 911 call for a febrile seizure when he was about 10 months old (our one and only thank goodness!!!). His temp was coming down by the time we got to the ER - not quite 105!!
I don’t think I have anything embarrassing yet. I fully intend to imortilize his dancing along with Judy Garland in his fave movie: Meet Me in St. Louis (or as he calls it “Skip-to-ma-loo-darlin”). He holds his little skirts (t-shirt) out and flips his invisible hair when she does. It’s CLASSIC! 
He’s been dodging the camera lately, so I haven’t caught it on video yet.
That oughta do the trick for embarrassing the pants off him some day!!
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