The scrapbook thing is my traditional 21st birthday gift to my kids. I gave one to my others and also gave them DVD's set to music with the scrapbooks.
Took me months to do those things and what a great gift from your mom. We take thousands of photos of our kids and scrapbooks are ways we can condense that into a lving memory of that. My daughter cried and cried when I gave hers to her. My older son still brings it out for me.
I've never been in a position where I could give my children a real true persopal good 18th birthday gift. I can now, and I'm stymied. My older son came up this week to spend with us and he took his brother to Frankies Fun Park yesterday for their birthday. They had a blast and that was a perfect gift from him. His time, his money, his love.
So you lpicked lice out of hair too? Geez, I thought that was taboo, I could have killed her and she had such looong hair. She kept going to school and using people's hair brushes. Eventually she got it and stopped.
Sometimes Queenie I look at those movies and I hear myself in the background and I was really happy with myself then. With my family. But then, I WAS by myself for the most part. I do know that X was in some to - of course I took those movies too. But the things that make me cry are those where the X is happy. Those times I know when in the end he was lying. Because its on videotape.
One Christmas, he pulls me to him and focuses the camera I had held to the two of us. No lie he could ever tell could erase that. If my boys ever saw that tape, they would know the truth about our marriage. Do I destroy it to spare them that? Maybe I'll put that in their 21st birthday video.
I'll put in aa title - back when you're dad was human
