Was cleaning out our hall closet the other day, trying to make more room in there for stuff overflowing in our office/craft room. I went through one of my “treasure boxes” hoping to reorganize and add to it. My mom has always been very meticulous about keeping things from our childhood. Our scrapbooks are…well, definitely scrapbooks, packed full of pictures, cards, notes to teachers, report cards, school works. She didn’t just keep the usual stuff. She also kept stuff that if she had asked me at the time I would have said “chuck it, it’s meaningless”. For instance, she kept a poster from a project I did on the Vietnam War in 8th grade and my multiplication flash cards my dad made for me in elementary school.

This particular treasure box was packed with clothes, toys, diaries, dolls, wallets, Donald Duck comics, my grandmothers tiny hand bible from her confirmation, dresses from special occasions, calendars, posters, phonics books…the list goes on. Anyway, I felt very nostalgic as I was going through it all and was compelled to take pictures of everything before I stored it all away again probably never to be looked at for another ten years but I only had a few hours before Liam woke up from his nap so I came up with the idea of making a short video instead. It was the librarian part of my brain talking to me. I just felt I needed to document the moment.

YouTube only allows a certain length of video so I uploaded to Vimeo but for some reason the Vimeo embed wouldn’t work in wordpress so I remembered that Flickr allows you to upload videos now. But they only allow you to upload 90 seconds worth. The entire clip is almost 15 minutes longs. I babble. I’ve been messing with this for a few days trying different ways to get the clip embeded into this post but you know, I’m on vacation, I’m not foolin’ with it so to view the clip just go here.

So, this is like, my first video upload where it’s just me and the camera talking. You’ll notice, I’m kinda flaky.