A Family History Project

Hello everyone
Jeff did a fun project as a Christmas gift for his siblings and parents this past year. He had everyone write up memories on specified topics, then compiled them, along with some pictures, into a book. I thought it would be great to do for our family,too, but I need your help to do it.
Here's the plan. I'm going to give you five topics and we'll focus on one topic a month for the next five months. I'll give you the topics now, so that you can start thinking, and then at the beginning of the month, I'll issue a reminder. Write up your thoughts or memories any way you'd like and email them to me. DON'T POST THEM ON THE BLOG. The fun of receiving the project at Christmas will be reading what everyone has written. Any and all kids are welcome to participate and send me their thoughts on any of the topics. If you do, you'll receive your own copy. And Mom and Dad, you're included in this, too, but you'll be writing about memories of when your children were young, not you. (Hopefully you're working on your own personal histories on your own.)
This is a tentative list of the topics. I may juggle them a bit as we go. If you have other ideas that would be fun let me know.
Favorite memories of family gatherings
Growing up in Beaver
What I learned from Grandma
What I learned from Mom and Dad
Favorite vacation and/or Holiday memories (if this one is too much at once we might have to split it in two)
Start thinking now. That way, the actually writing won't have to take a lot of time out of your busy lives.
One last note, let's try to focus on the positives. Yes, negative stuff happened. But that's not what we want to remember or carry with us into the future.
I hope you don't mind helping me out with this. Watch for the first reminder at the beginning of February. Thanks in advance!