Colleen
Senior Member
- Location
- Pennsylvania
I've never been one to display a lot of family pictures in my home but today when I was in the basement, I was looking for something in a tote marked, "David and Colleen's pictures". It's a good sized tote and it's filled with photo envelopes of pictures I've taken through the years. You know the kind...the ones taken with a REAL camera and then developed at a drug store or somewhere? I've been avoiding going through this tote because I was afraid of the emotions that I thought would make me cry or depress me. However.....
I started opening envelopes and the pictures didn't make me cry nor depress me. They made me smile. There were so many pictures of my sweet husband and they brought back wonderful memories of places we went, things we did and family gatherings. I even found a couple empty picture frames and put some pictures of him and me in them and brought them upstairs to display in the livingroom.
We often talked about what to do with all those old pictures. Should we just throw them away? Will the kids even look at them? Well, I'm glad we didn't get rid of them because I'm sure I'll be going through them again and I think the kids will have a good time looking at them after I'm gone.
Do you keep all pictures or go through them? I had forgotten about many of them. I even talked to myself saying, "Oh, yes...I remember that." Maybe I'll have a good cry later....maybe not
I started opening envelopes and the pictures didn't make me cry nor depress me. They made me smile. There were so many pictures of my sweet husband and they brought back wonderful memories of places we went, things we did and family gatherings. I even found a couple empty picture frames and put some pictures of him and me in them and brought them upstairs to display in the livingroom.
We often talked about what to do with all those old pictures. Should we just throw them away? Will the kids even look at them? Well, I'm glad we didn't get rid of them because I'm sure I'll be going through them again and I think the kids will have a good time looking at them after I'm gone.
Do you keep all pictures or go through them? I had forgotten about many of them. I even talked to myself saying, "Oh, yes...I remember that." Maybe I'll have a good cry later....maybe not