Although I profess to be a writer, I am terrible at keeping a journal. The only time I've written faithfully was on my mission, and I started copying it a few months ago into MS Word so I'd have a version when the pages of the original start to decompose (if they do before I do, that is). But after I got through the first three months of the mission, I put the journals down and haven't picked them up again. I will sometime.
What I really enjoy doing is documenting our lives through pictures and video. Unfortunately, I'm pretty slow at that, too. I just finished editing and burning to DVD two video tapes that John sent me...in April 2005. But it was fun to watch Caroline, when she turned two, and Elliot, when he was just three months old. Kids grow so fast, especially when they're that young, and we forget what they were like even a couple years ago. That's why I love videos. I have a drawer filled with 31 home VHS tapes, beginning just before we moved to Japan in 1983, when Jamie was about seven. They all need to be edited and burned to DVD. I have maybe 10 miniDV tapes that need to be edited. I also have several hours of 8mm and super 8mm films, beginning when I was about five years old. I've had some of those transferred to miniDV and am working on editing and burning them to DVD. So far I have my mission movies on DVD, and I'm about halfway through editing the first hour of my parent's home movies. There are probably three hours of those.
I don't have any thoughts to share today. I'll try to keep this blog up to date. But even if I don't, I'll enjoy reading yours.
