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It's amazing how quickly time passes. I'm sure I am not the only one who has those moments where I stop for some reason and look around and realize how much has changed in the time that's gone by. This weekend in my home we've been reorganizing. I'm restructuring some of the places in my home that are dedicated to my photography business - moving my office into another room, setting up a viewing and meeting area to have for clients. In this process there has been much cleaning out and throwing out... weeding through choosing whether certain things make the cut and get to stay with me or leave to Goodwill, someone I know that could use it or even the trash. One of the biggest things getting cleaned out is the movie area -- finding a new area to store DVD's and deciding what to do with VHS (keep - or get rid of.) In all of this cleaning and rearranging shelves (movies, books, etc) we found some old VHS tapes. Sat down to see what was on one and it was my boys in Christmas of 89 and Feb 90 (Tyler's 1st birthday) - and I was pregnant w Chelsea (only in the Christmas video I didn't know that yet!). Technology wasn't too awesome back then, but it was good enough that it recorded this time in my life -- this very important time in my life!! I can't stop crying - all of the memories (GOOD ONES!) that flood back just hearing their voices -- and seeing my Grandmother and hearing her voice!! It's amazing! My Grandmother was killed in a car accident back in 2002, and there has remained an emptiness in me that she filled since up to that time. Today, for just a few minutes, I was able to see her and hear her voice, and that emptiness felt full... My oldest son is engaged to be married in a year, and my other two kids are in their 20's - but today I was able to look at him when he was 2 1/2 - hear his little voice and see how much he really never changed... he's always been the same little boy who has just grown up. And my middle son... he's 10-mos-old in the first part of the video, ball-headed and gorgeous...always clinging to me, in my lap, not more than a few inches from me. My little "bug"... oh, my goodness. My heart is so tender at this moment. There are not words to express how much it means to know that a picture can produce so much emotion. And then I remember I am SO blessed to be able to take a photo for someone - and give them the ability to have this same emotion one day. Never underestimate the power of recording memories.
I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday!
