June 16, 2026

The Little Moments We Didnt Know We'd Remember

The Little Moments We Didnt Know We'd Remember

This week on We Are the Hansons, Myia shares a heartfelt look at a weekend that didn't seem extraordinary at first—Maddie's rummage sale adventure with Gavin and Riley, a family fishing trip that brought in bluegill, sunfish, striper bass, and catfish, graduation pictures for nephew Jonny at the Japanese Garden, and a relaxing Sunday night of taco bowls and UFC fights with family and friends. It's a reminder that the moments that shape our lives are often the quiet, simple ones spent together.

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You know what I've learned. The older I get, the

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more I realize that life isn't really made up of

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the giant moments. It's not just the weddings, it's not

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just the birthdays, it's not just the vacations, and it's

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not even the graduations. Those moments matter, of course they do,

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But I think our lives are actually built inside ordinary weekends.

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The weekends that don't look like much on the calendar,

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the weekends that don't cost much money, the weekends that

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nobody else would think were particularly special. Because somehow those

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weekends become the ones we remember forever. It's fishing with

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your family. It's watching fights on television. It's making dinner together.

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It's standing in a garden taking pictures. It's laughing over

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something that probably wasn't even that funny. It's sitting around

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talking about absolutely nothing. These are the moments that stay

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with us. I think we spend so much of our

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lives waiting for the next big thing that we accidentally

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overlook the life we're already living. We're waiting for vacation,

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we're waiting for things to slow down. We're waiting for

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the promotion. We're waiting for retirement. We're waiting for some day. Meanwhile,

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our lives are happening right now. They're happening in ordinary moments.

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They're happening around dinner tables. They're happening besides lakes. They're

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happening in car rides. They're happening while somebody catches a fish.

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They're happening while your daughter spends the weekend with people

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she cares about. They're happening while you're taking graduation pictures.

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And the funny thing is you don't realize those moments

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matter while you're living them. You're just doing life. You're

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just making tacos, just hanging out, You're just taking some pictures.

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And then one day you look back and realize, those

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are the moments, those were the memories, those were the

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days that filled your heart. This weekend reminded me of that.

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Nothing huge happened, no giant trip, no expensive event, no

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big announcement, but somehow, by Sunday night, my heart felt

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completely full, and I thought, these are the weekends that matter,

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These are the weekends we'll remember. Hey, everybody, welcome back

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to we are the hans Ends. I'm Maya, and if

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you're new here, welcome, to our little corner of the world.

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This is where we talk about family, marriage, parenting, life

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and all of those little moments in between that somehow

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end up becoming the stories we tell for years, because honestly,

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family life isn't built on giant moments. It's built on

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little one It's built on conversations. It's built on traditions.

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It's built on ordinary weekends that somehow become unforgettable. And

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this past weekend was exactly that. Nothing huge happened, but

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somehow everything felt special. It all started with Maddie. Maddie

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spent the weekend with our son Gavin and his girlfriend Riley,

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and they went rummage sailing. Now, let me tell you something.

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I never thought there would come a day when rummage

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sales sounded like fun. When I was younger, I hated

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garage sales. I remember my parents pulling over because they

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saw a sign, and I'd be in the backseat thinking, seriously,

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why are we stopping. I wanted to get where we

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were going. I wanted to do something exciting. I couldn't

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imagine spending an entire saturday looking through somebody else's stuff.

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Then one day you become an adult, you see a

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handwritten sign that says multifamily garage sale, and suddenly your

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curiosity kicks in. How many families? What kind of stuff

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should we stop? Could there be something amazing there? I

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don't know exactly when that switch happens, but one day

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it absolutely does, and honestly, I kind of love it,

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because rummage sales are a lot like life. You never

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know what you're going to find. You might find something valuable,

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you might find something funny, you might find absolutely nothing.

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But the aventure is looking. I imagine the three of

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them driving around together, playing music, talking, laughing, stopping at

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one more sale, then one more, then another, because somehow

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that's always how it goes. You tell yourself you'll stop

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at one, then you see an another sign, and another

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and another, and suddenly you've spent half the day doing

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something completely random, And somehow it's wonderful because the truth is,

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they probably won't remember every item they looked at. They

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probably won't remember every single thing they bought, but they'll

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remember being together. They'll remember conversations, they'll remember laughing, they'll

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remember how the day felt. As I have gotten older,

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that's become more important to me. Experiences don't have to

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be expensive. Memories don't have to be extravagant. Sometimes it's

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simply spending time with people you enjoy. And watching your

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children grow up and create memories of their own is

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one of the strangest feelings in the world because it's beautiful,

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but it is also bittersweet. I still remember Mattie being little.

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I remember little shoes by the door, or I remember

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bedtime stories. I remember school mornings, I remember helping with homework.

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I remember little hands reaching up to hold mind. I

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remember all of those things. And now she's grown. She's

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creating her own memories, she's building her own traditions, she's

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making plans with people she loves. And that's exactly what

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we want as parents. We want our kids to become independent,

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we want them to have experiences, we want them to

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build relationships. But nobody prepares your heart for how quickly

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it happens. Nobody tells you that one day you'll look

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at your grown children and still somehow see every version

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of them all at once. Parents understand this. You see

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the adult, but somehow you also see the toddler, the

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little kid, the teenager. You see every version of them

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at the same time, and time is funny because it

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never asks permission. It just keeps moving. One minute you're

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packing lunches, one minute you're helping them tie their shoes.

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The next minute they're driving. One minute you're reading bedtime stories,

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the next minute they're adults. And honestly, I don't know

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where all that time goes. I really don't. I think

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that's why ordinary weekends matter so much, because they're happening

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while time is quietly slipping by. They're becoming memories while

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we don't even realize it. Saturday rolled around and Jeremy Torren,

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Anlyn Colin and I all decided to go fishing. Now,

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let me tell you something. I think fishing is one

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of the greatest things families can do together. Not because

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of the fish. The fish are just a bonus. I

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think fishing is wonderful because it forces people to slow down.

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The goodness knows we need more of that. Everything moves

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so fast. Everybody is busy, everybody has somewhere to be,

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everybody has something to do, everybody has another notification on

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their phone. Fishing doesn't care about any of that. Fishing

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says fit. Fishing says wait, fishing says be patient. Fishing

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says look around. I honestly think we need more things

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that slow us down. I don't think human beings were

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designed to move at the speed we're moving. We're always rushing,

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always multitasking, always worried about what's next. Fishing says, there

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doesn't need to be a next thing. Right now, this

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moment is enough. Kids understand this naturally. They can sit

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by water for hours. They can throw rocks, they can

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look for turtles, they can watch birds, they can search

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for frogs. They know how to be present. As adults,

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we lose that somewhere. We're always trying to be productive.

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Fishing reminds us that simply being together is productive too.

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I imagine them arriving at the water. Maybe the morning

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air was cool, Maybe there was that early stillness, the

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kind where the water looks like glass. I love mornings

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like that. There's something peaceful about standing beside water. Nobody's rushing,

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nobody's asking for anything, It's just people and nature. I

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think we need that. I think we need moments where

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we're reminded how big the world is. Because life gets small.

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Sometimes our problems feel enormous, our stress feels overwhelming. Then

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you stand beside a lake, you hear birds, you feel

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a breeze, you watch sunlight dance across the wa water,

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and suddenly things don't seem quite so heavy. I think

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nature has a way of putting everything into perspective. And

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then there's the anticipation. Anybody who fishes knows exactly what

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I'm talking about. You throw your line out there, and

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you wait, even little moments get your attention. Was that

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a fish? Was that weeds? Should I reel it in?

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Should I leave it? Fishing is funny because you're constantly hopeful.

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Every cast feels like possibility. Maybe this is the one.

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Maybe this cast catches the big fish. Maybe this cast

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becomes the story everybody tells. And apparently this trip turned

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out pretty good because they caught fish quite a few fish, bluegill, sunfish, striper, bass,

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and two catfish. Now, if you've ever been fishing, you

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know every fish becomes an event. Somebody catches one, everybody

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gets excited, everybody gathers around, somebody wants a picture, somebody's

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giving advice, somebody's celebrating. I absolutely love that. Because adults

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need reasons to feel childlike excitement, life can become so serious. Bills, responsibilities, stress, schedules.

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Sometimes we forget how to be amazed by little things.

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Kids don't forget. They get excited over everything. A butterfly,

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a turtle, a cloud, a fish. Everything feels important, everything

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feels like an adventure. Fishing gives adults permission to feel

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that again, And honestly, I think that's beautiful because years

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from now, nobody's going to remember exactly what time they

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got there. Nobody's going to remember what they wore, nobody's

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going to remember every little detail, but they'll remember being together,

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they'll remember laughing, they'll remember catching those two catfish. One

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day somebody will say, remember those catfish, and everybody will smile.

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Because that's how family memories work. They sneak up on you,

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They build themselves quietly, They become stories without asking permission.

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Those are usually the best stories of all. Then Sunday came,

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and Sunday felt different. Sunday was one of those days

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where you know you're witnessing something special, even if you

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can't completely explain why. We went to take graduation pictures

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for our nephew Johnny at the Japanese Garden, And honestly,

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it couldn't have been a more perfect place if you've

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ever been to the Japanese Garden in Springfield, you know

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what I mean. The minute you walk in, something changes.

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Everything slows down. The pathways curved gently, the trees seem intentional,

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the flowers are beautiful. There are little bridges, hands, quiet

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places to sit. Everything feels peaceful. It almost feels like

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time moves differently there. And maybe that's why it was

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such a fitting place for graduation pictures, because graduations themselves

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are strange. They're celebrations, but they're also reminders, reminders that

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time never stops moving. I remember Johnny being little, I

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remember family get togethers, I remember holidays, I remember seeing

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him run around, I remember hearing him laugh. I remember

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him just being a kid. And then there we were

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standing in the Japanese Garden taking college graduation pictures. College,

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How does that happen? Seriously? How? Because it honestly feels impossible.

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One minute, everybody is little, the next minute everybody's grown.

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The next minute they're graduating, the next minute their starting careers,

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the next minute they're adults. And somehow all of it

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happens in what feels like a blink. I think that's

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one of the hardest things about getting older, you become

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aware of time. When you're young, time feels endless. A

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year feels like forever, Summer vacation feels like it lasts

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an entire lifetime. You can't wait to be older, you

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can't wait to drive, you can't wait to graduate, you

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can't wait for adulthood. And then adulthood gets here, and

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suddenly time starts moving differently. A week flies by, a

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month disappears. You blink, and somehow it's Christmas again. You blink,

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and another year has passed. You blink, and kids become adults.

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It's a little unbelievable there. Watching Johnny take graduation pictures

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made me emotional because graduation pictures aren't really about the

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cap and gown. They're about possibility. They're about hope. They're

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about standing at the edge of one chapter while another

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chapter is just beginning. You're looking at someone whose future

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is completely open. What adventures are waiting, What opportunities, what friendships,

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what experiences? Nobody knows? And maybe that's what makes graduation beautiful.

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It's possibility, it's potential, it's promise. I found myself looking

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around at the trees and flowers and thinking about growth,

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because gardens don't happen overnight. Trees don't happen overnight. Flowers

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don't bloom overnight. Neither do people. Becoming who you are

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takes time. Learning takes time, growing takes time, Education takes time.

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Maturity takes time. You don't wake up one day and

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magically have a college degree. There's an entire story behind

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that moment. There are late nights, there are difficult assignments.

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There are moments of stress, moments of doubt, moments where

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you wonder if you're ever going to make it to

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the finish line. And then one day you're standing in

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a beautiful Japanese garden taking graduation pictures. I don't know.

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I just think moments like that deserve to be celebrated.

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I think accomplishments deserve to be acknowledged. I think we

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move too quickly from one thing to another. We finish

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something and immediately move on to the next thing. Maybe

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we should pause more often, Maybe we should celebrate more.

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Maybe we should take more pictures. Maybe we should stop

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and appreciate how far people have come. Because life moves fast,

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really fast, and moments deserve our attention. Sure's freeze time

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for just a second. That's why I love pictures. Years

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from now, Johnny will look at those photographs, he'll remember

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exactly how he felt, the excitement, the pride, the relief,

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the uncertainty, the hope. Pictures let us revisit moments we

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can never live again. And I think that's beautiful because

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one day these pictures won't simply be graduation pictures. They'll

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be memories, they'll be stories. They'll become little windows back

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into the season of life. That's priceless. After pictures, we

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came home and by then it felt like the perfect sunday.

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Everybody was comfortable, everybody was relaxed, nobody was in a hurry,

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and Jeremy and I made taco bulls. Now. Let me

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tell you something. I love taco bulls because taco bulls

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aren't complicated ground beef, taco seasoning. Let us tomato, cheese,

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sour cream, salsa, tortilla chips. Everything's spread out on the counter,

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everybody making their own bowl, and somehow everybody thinks there's

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taste the best. But honestly, I don't think taco balls

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are really about the food. I think they're about what

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happens around the food. Everybody gathers, people talk, people laugh,

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somebody's reaching for chips, somebody's asking where the cheese is,

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somebody's stealing extra meat, nobody's in a hurry. For a

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few minutes, everybody is simply together. I think family dinners matter,

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I really do. I think gathering around food matters. I

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think conversations and kitchens matter. I think those little moments

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shape families because some of my favorite memories involve food,

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not because the food was extraordinary, but because of who

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was there, because of the conversations, because of the laughter,

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because of the feeling. I think that's what people really remember,

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the feeling. And after dinner, we settled in for the

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UFC fights. Collin was here, Keenum was here, Tristan was here,

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everybody hanging out, everybody talking, everybody laughing, everybody having opinions,

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everybody predicting who was going to win. I love nights

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like that because it isn't really about the fights. It's

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about togetherness. It's about everybody being in one place. Because

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life gets busy, really busy. Everybody has responsibilities, everybody has schedules,

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everybody has things they need to do. As you get older,

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getting everybody together becomes harder. People move, people, work, people

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get married, people have kids, Schedules fill up, and suddenly

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getting everybody in the same room feels like an event,

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which is why nights like this feel special. Nobody was

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trying too hard, nobody was chasing something bigger. We were

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simply living life, and somehow it was enough. Actually it

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was more than enough. Later that night, after the tackle

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bowls and after the fights, and after everybody had settled down,

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I found myself thinking about the entire weekend. I thought

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about Maddie. I thought about Gavin and Riley. I thought

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about them driving around looking at garage sales. I thought

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about Jeremy and the kids fishing. I thought about bluegill, sunfish,

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striper bass, those two catfish. I thought about standing in

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the Japanese garden. I thought about Johnny graduating college. I

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thought about everybody laughing around the television. I felt grateful,

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not because everything was perfect, not because something extraordinary happened.

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I felt grateful because we were together. I think togetherness

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is one of the greatest gifts in life, because someday

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these moments become stories. Someday we'll say things like, remember

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when Maddie went rummage styling with Gavin and Riley. Remember

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those catfish. Remember Johnny's graduation pictures at the Japanese Garden,

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Remember taco bowls in UFC fight night. Those become family stories,

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Those become memories, Those become pieces of our history. And

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the older I get, the more I realize something. The

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good old days aren't behind us. They're happening right now

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or living them. These ordinary weekends, these random dinners, these

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simple moments, These are the days we'll miss someday. These

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are the stories we'll tell. These are the moments that

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shape families. I think that's the lesson this weekend gave me.

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Pay attention, Slow down, laugh more, take the pictures, stay

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a little longer, go fishing, stop at the garage sale,

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make the tackle bulls, watch the fights, celebrate the graduations.

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Sit together, be present, because one day you'll realize that

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the things you thought were ordinary were actually extraordinary all along.

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And trust me, they're worth noticing while you're living them.

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Thank you so much for spending a little bit of

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your day with me. On We are the Hansens. From

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all of us here at we are the Hansens. We

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hope your week is full of simple moments, unexpected laughter,

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and plenty of reasons to gather around the people you love,

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because at the end of the day, those are the

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things that matter. Those are the things we carry with us.

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Those are the moments that become the stories will tell forever.

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We'll see you next time.