We've been working really hard the past week moving into our new apartment. Every time we move we eliminate a lot of stuff but it always blows me away how much stuff we still have when we start to unpack! We dispose and then we accumulate more! It's a vicious cycle. Anyway, we've moved like 6 times in the past 7 years. This last move was from my parents house where they had been letting us crash for a few months. Packed away in the deep, dark depths of my parents attic were about 5 boxes full of treasures and junk from my youth. Its both a blessing and a curse going through that stuff! I've cried and laughed a lot as I sorted through the memories of the past 25 years or so! I've only hit the tip of the ice-berg. I have a lot to shred and a lot to throw out. Among the boxes 'o memories are photos taken from milestone moments like prom, graduation, college and my mission. I found letters from friends and old boyfriends that made me both laugh and tear up just thinking of the good and sometimes sad times I had growing up! And then I found my good ole trophy collection. I couldn't help but display them in the living room just for the night. I thought my husband would get a chuckle out of my proud display of athletic accomplishments but he didn't really get it- I wasn't really going to leave them out there permanently! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them. I don't really want to throw them away but I don't want to display them either. I'll probably just leave them in a box to admire from time to time! Lol! There is so much stuff that I'm going to have to do something with. Anyway, I can't help but feel a little melancholy about the past. The old cassette tapes I found and have been listening to don't help either. I'm grown up now. I'm not a kid anymore. Dang. I usually try to leave on a positive note but I just want to wallow in the melancholy for a little bit longer!
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I am having the same problem. Since we were married we have moved five times and are going on our sixth. I am just now unpacking, to sort through and then pack back up the boxes from our last move. Good luk dani.
Dani...I think we all have these bozes. I call them "Boxes of Wonder". Part of it is because you wonder why you kept it and part of the wonder of the past. To be young again and think all those problems were going to be the end of the world. Keep the super important stuff and take pictures of the rest! :)
I am so like that! How sad is it that sometimes I wish my childhood and adolescence weren't so great, just so I wouldn't miss it? Okay, I don't go that far, but I totally feel know how you feel. Perhaps time has a way of remembering the good times much more than the bad, but I'm so grateful for the fun times I had and the good friends like you.
On our cross-country move last year I was driving alone in one car, and Brad was in the moving truck behind me, and I listened to EVERY ONE of my cassette tapes! Like around 75 or so! Many tears were shed on that trip, and a lot of laughs all by myself, too!
Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever feel really grown up. And I wonder if my parents felt like I do now when we were growing up? I never thought they did back then, or thought much about how their past affected them like mine affects me.
Anyway. Good times. And good times ahead, too! Someday when the kids are all grown we'll probably look back at this time in our lives wistfully, too. Kinda sad to think about that. Good thing I'm not PMSing right now, because I know I'd be crying all over the place!
Sally's comment was awesome. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Sorry to have missed you Sunday. I noticed that on lds.org. Come on, people. Change the time when the new year hits, geez! Bummer. Well, maybe THIS Sunday we'll connect. (if we're there. we're contemplating leaving a day early for vacation and just hitting an earlier ward...)
Can't wait to have you in the ward!
Dani! I kind of stopped the blogging thing for awhile there, but i'm back! I love thinking about all my memories(most of them anyways!). We had such a blast together. Those are memories that I will cherish forever! I have loved getting to know your hubby and sweet little girl too. You are awesome!
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