{"id":139,"date":"2007-12-03T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-12-18T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T23:37:21","slug":"recording-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Recording your life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPutting up the Christmas tree
\n02 December 2007<\/p>\n

Shelrie came over yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 I love it when she visits for several reasons:\u00c2\u00a0 1) She’s vegetarian, and Matt always makes a really nice vegetarian meal for her.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday he made a very<\/em> delicious vegetarian stir fry and we had his yummy banana bread for dessert.\u00c2\u00a0 2) Shelrie’s conversation is always enjoyable for everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 And 3) since we’ve known each other since we were 15-years-old and we were roommates in college as well, we reminisce.\u00c2\u00a0 I have only two other friends, Rick and Shelly, that I’ve known as long as Shelrie.\u00c2\u00a0 The older I get, the more I cherish my long-time friends.<\/p>\n

Last night, we pulled out the old photo albums and thumbed through some pictures of us in high school and college.\u00c2\u00a0 It was really fun, saying “Oh my gosh, do you remember when we did that?” and “Oh my gosh, do you remember her?”<\/p>\n

When my babies were born, I received several presents — books and calendars — that were for recording your child’s\u00c2\u00a0achievements: first word, first step, weight, height.\u00c2\u00a0 The women that gave them to me told me how much they\u00c2\u00a0really liked their baby books, and how they love to\u00c2\u00a0look back at them and see\u00c2\u00a0how the children have grown.<\/p>\n

When I received the gifts, I was very grateful because the thought was so kind, but I knew I wouldn’t use them.\u00c2\u00a0 By the age of 36 (that’s how old I was when Lily was born), I already knew that this was not how I recorded my life.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s also when I realized that everyone has a different way to record their life.\u00c2\u00a0 Some people scrapbook; some people journal; some people use memory books.\u00c2\u00a0 I take pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 I also blog, but I think that is a secondary method.\u00c2\u00a0 I blog mostly to communicate.\u00c2\u00a0 But I take pictures to record my life — to remember and cherish.<\/p>\n

My photo collection is a mess<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Truly a mess.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s in four or five boxes out in the garage, getting ruined.\u00c2\u00a0 I need to take the time to organize it.<\/p>\n

Also, after going through some of the older photos with Shelrie last night, I realized that many of the photos are crap.\u00c2\u00a0 They are terrible photos of scenery.\u00c2\u00a0 When I go through the photo collection, I need to pick out the gems and leave the rest.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, the gems get lost in the noise.<\/p>\n

After Shelrie left, I took out the camera to take pictures of the kids and Matt putting up the Christmas tree, and I realized that I haven’t taken any pictures of Shelrie.\u00c2\u00a0 The last picture I have of Shelrie is from ten years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 I need to take pictures the next time she visits.<\/p>\n

I like recording my life.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s fun to look back over the record with old friends. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Putting up the Christmas tree 02 December 2007 Shelrie came over yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 I love it when she visits for several reasons:\u00c2\u00a0 1) She’s vegetarian, and Matt always makes a really nice vegetarian meal for her.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday he made a very delicious vegetarian stir fry and we had his yummy banana bread for dessert.\u00c2\u00a0 2) Shelrie’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}