New Hobby turns out to be great recovery

by LyinEyes 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  SheilaM

  (((((((Lyin Eyes)))))):

  I am so glad you found a catharsis for you.If you saw my post today I too have been a bit melancholy. I have a trunk full of pics and need to get them in albums the kids had one each up until the age of four or so and they have worn them out over the years. I need to redo them. I always got so mad at my Mom for having a trunk full of pictures now I am doing the same thing LOL Hers was black with one handle torn off, in all the many moves it went with us. Mine is the old steamer with wood inlay it smells musty and makes me think of my Mom and her turnk. She has alzheimers and goes through her pics almost everyday.

  Pictures are so special I am taking photography I just learned that 1838 there were NO photographs in 11 years later there were MILLIONS!!!! I have about 50 rolls too develop LOL I horde them and then spend $300.00 or so a pop to get them processed. But they are precious I wish I had taken more of the kids when they were younger but alas we just didn't have the funds.

  Melanie (my daughter ) has taken so many of Makayla and I bought her a pooh scrapbook to get them into before the pile up.

  Thunder Rider has found out how to build me a dark room and I can't wait I just need someone to help me put them in frames etc. LOL

  PS One thing my cousin did that you will laugh at, her daughter graduated last year and before she could leave for college she had to make albums for her Mom LOL She got them all done through out the summer.
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  xenawarrior

  ((((((((Dede)))))))))

  I am so glad that you are doing this!!! I have a good friend who is a professional photographer and he has said so many times that he can tell so much through the eyes of his subjects. The eyes to the soul as I've heard it said. It's great that you are feeling some healing with this.

  Have you ever done any scrapbooking? If not, you might want to talk to Becky when you see her in Dallas- she may be able to give you some great tips for your project.

  Keep the music playing !!!

  Lots of hugs at ya !!!

  XW
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  LyinEyes

  It is so great to hear your stories , and how precious your family pics are too.

  I threw all this together in a few hours one nite with the empty little albums I had here at the house. But , I do want to do more of a scrapbook style and customize the album for each child. I have always done this, but I really want to make these special. I showed my neice her's today, and she got tears in her eyes too. She asked if she could take it home and look at it and show her grandmother, so I parted with my one and only pictures for the night. I told her to take special care of those , they mean the world to me.

  I am going to make her a better album customized with things she likes and make it real pretty for her.

  I am going to make copies of the ones of her. She was raised by her grandmother Wild's mom, and her mom too, and then I was always right there with Jake and they are more like brother and sister than cousins.

  I am now working on my nephew's her brother, and I have tons of pictures of his new baby, my great nephew Jordan. The ones of the new baby are great and I have to say I can capture a moment.

  I think everyone who sees themselves in an album when they come to your home, or in a picture frame , makes them feel like they are really apart of your life and it shows how much you love them.

  Looking at all these pictures really has helped me to see how short our time is here on this earth, and since I am not sure what will happen in the future,,,, who does,,,,,,,I want to leave my kids with a little something personal for each of them. I am planning on putting my own thoughts with someof the pics in the albums. I have pics my mom wrote things on the back of and it means alot to see her penmenship, her signature still looking like it was wrote just that day.

  I guess I am seeing that I am going to be an old woman hopefully, no accidents or anything, and live to see my own grandkids,,,,,,,then I will have even more subjects to take pictures of .
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  roybatty

  Wow, what a powerful post. The other night I was looking at my son, wondering what kind of man he's going to be. Then I realized he's already almost there. He's "only" 12 but his voice is changing, he's big and has a mind of his own. In a couple of years he'll probably be bigger and faster then me. Just wondering what it will be like to "loose" that little boy? What's it like to be a parent and seeing you kids no longer playing around the neighborhood but instead are driving across town to be with their friends or leaving for college or starting a family of their own?
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  LyinEyes

  Roy, that is so heartwarming to hear a dad say those things, my hubby and I talk about it all the time, but he only talks to me about these kind of things.

  Roy,,,,,,,,, I can tell you from experience ,,,,,,,,, the major change that will happen to your son is between 12 and 13,,,,, that was the most drastic for my son. He not only grew on the outside, voice changing, sideburns, getting tall, muscles, and getting alot of attention from the girls,, but it was the inside that changed so much.

  He literally wasnt my baby anymore, he was really becoming a man,,,,,,,,,which I didnt like too much..........lol...... I wanted him to stay the way he had always been. But for that to be so, he would not ever grow up. Things between he and I , started to change, we fought more, he got to be a real smart ass,,,,,,,lol....... I am used to it now,,,, and we laugh , pick and go at it pretty bad sometimes. I am not a conventional mother, I am very open, and my son tells me everything, so we always have some crisis to deal with,,,,,,,,, TEENAGERS ARGGGGGG!!!

  Things calmed down for him in his moods at about 14 , but he is still a smart ass,,,,,,but hey, he gets that honestly........lol. I adore the young man he is now, and he most definatly has a mind of his own, and is not a follower. He loves football, played for the first time this year and now is starting practice for baseball, he had never before even picked up a bat and ball except for a little backyard ball with the kids. He is doing well in that too, everything just comes so natural for him, and it is a good outlet for him. It also brought him and his dad closer together and now they have a stronger bond, when as before Jake was all mine, he was a mama's boy. Now he can really relate more to his dad ,and that is the way it is supposed to be, so that he can learn how to be a man.

  But really Roy, treasure this year with your son, get lots of picks , video camera out, and get your son on tape, he will change so much. Looking back on our family tapes and hearing Jake's voice , made me cry,,,,,,,, I couldnt beleive the change . It saddens me that one day not to far in the future he may move out and go out on his own. I hope he stays close and he knows we want him to stay living at home as long as he wants to .