Memories

I started a project a couple of months ago that I have gotten back to this past week.  Sorting and organizing family/church photos through the years.  What a job it is!  But, I am finally at a point, somewhat, that I can start putting the sorted photos back in albums in an organized manner.

The dumb part of this story is that a couple of years ago I started buying albums at the thrift so I could get the thousands of photos I have out of boxes and into albums.  I was so intent on getting them out of the boxes that I didn't even think about putting them in order first!  DUH!  Now, I've got the job to do again!  But, this time I will do it correctly!

A lot of the kids pictures that we took have gone to the kids.  However, I got all of mom and dad's pictures, so I have a lot of them again.  I have a lot of theirs, too, that they took with their polaroid and/or camera they had.  Most of them don't have any dates at all, so I am having to rely on my memory, which is iffy at best!  :D

Well, anyway, this weekend I started on Jessica's album.  I am using pre-made scrapbooking items, trimming the pictures down to fit and writing some memory on the card.  There are so many that I will not need to write on each one but here are the first 3 that I have done (I'll type out what I have written on the card so it will be easier to read for some of you):

"Some of the details fade in the busy-ness of life, but the first breath of Motherhood remains FOREVER embedded upon my mind and in my heart ~ MOM (aka Vicky Day)"
This is Jessica's hospital picture, obviously!  She was born on January 2, 1980.  She was due December 27, 1979, little stinker!  :D

"Friday, January 4, 1980
I remember the first time your dad saw you with your eyes open.  He said, "I didn't think her eyes would open for 3 or 4 days!"  I failed the first year of Biology, but I knew the answer to this one.  I said, "she isn't a puppy!"

"You were 4 days old when we brought you home.  It had snowed LOTS!  We could not get the car up the driveway; not an unusual thing, but not wanted this day!  Tim carried you up the drive and Tim's dad helped me walk up the driveway.  We got more snow and freezing rain through the day.  Your dad took this picture that evening.  At least the ice waited for us to get home!"


At the beginning of the year I had resolved to take a photo of Tim and I each day.  That was going pretty well until I started with the stomach issues and was sick.  So, I have missed LOTS of days!  I'll post some later that I have taken in the last weeks.