Recording Minutes...

Today my husband and I are doing something that we've done for each of our children at different times but now have the opportunity to do for our granddaughter. We are taking pictures of her throughout her day... as this is her last week at Pre K. So from waking her up, to picking out her clothes, to eating her toast and walking her to her cubby.. we have at least one picture of each minute. Why? because we'll never have these minutes back again and we know that when she gets older she may not have any clear memories of the many days we did the same thing day after day but if she looks back on the pictures and we talk about it and tell her stories about the different things that happened during different days she'll develop memories as she gets older... which all will go into making up the woman she will become.

The other reason is strictly selfish for Papa and Nana.. after parenting two children and watching the years fly by we love having the pictures to look back on to remind us of our memories. When you are living your life day to day and minute to minute it's easy to get caught up in what seems to be the "routine"... but when it's gone and that season of life has come to an end and the next season comes and then the next and the next.. it's good to have some form of record of those "routine" days to look back on.

I heard something the other day that really rung true to me.. history is only history if someone survives long enough to tell about it.. so today.. though it's not a day in history for the world or even the town.. for this family it has been recorded so that in the years to come what were just "ordinary minutes" all added up to a year in her little life.. we can look back on her size, her friends, the look in her eyes when she walks to the school hand in hand with Papa and Nana and to her cubby.. and we'll know that our minutes mattered!