Going through the filing cabinet I came across some things I kept from when the girls were born. Isn’t it funny the things you keep as mementos….
Of course I have cards that were sent to congratulate us on their arrival… I also kept birthday cards that I got that year as that was the day the girls came home. I have the name tags from the end of their isolettes, the sign the nurses made when Zoe hit 1 kg. I have foot prints from when they were 27 days old and the tiny christmas hats they were wearing Christmas morning but I can’t quite believe they were ever that tiny. I have some of the many wrist and ankle id bands they wore throughout their time in hospital and I even kept the last sheet of stickers with all their hospital details that I used to label the breast milk I bought in each day… why I thought to keep those I have no idea!
I have cards from when Muski was born too. He was home by the time he was three days old so there is not as many hospital items to remember his early days by, but I kept the magazine I read the day after he was born and a menu from the hospital – who’d like to know what was on offer for lunch on June 28th 2007??
I have no idea what I thought I was going to do with any of these things, I just kept them. I remember the time these things represent like it was yesterday and yet it seems such a long long time ago…. memory is such a fickle thing.
I was just thinking today, that it’s funny the things you hand onto! I still have a text from daddy kewl that says “Moo?”… He was asking if we needed milk. It’s lame and the text itself is now totally useless, but it still means something.
I think having something physical, something concrete to look at or touch kind of makes the memories more real or more present, or something!
Interesting thoughts, anyway :-)
Honey, that’s nothing!
I have every birthday card and christmas card we all got in the last 12 years… (and I’m the anti-hoarder), for some reason I think the boys might like to see who used to wish them a happy birthday and a merry christmas, you know, like when they’re 23…
They’re so cute! I keep all that stuff too, goodness knows why! But today I took down all the Chrissy cards, kept some of the special ones, and gave the rest to Caleb to cut up! Enough is enough!
I still have the cards from when you were born and the tag from the hospital maybe time to pass them on – perhaps a birthday present!!
I’ve got hospital bracelets from every admission the kidz have had, curls from first haircuts, even the clip from the cord (although not the cord itself – my mother has mine though).
Some of it seems a bit much, but every time I open one of those boxes to go through I find myself carefully placing each item back and resealing it again.
These things are important as keepsakes, aren’t they?
LOL, I have stuff from all of the kids first days. I have a firsts box for Immy, Maddy and Lily (although Lily has raided hers and there is not much left) and I have the first outfit and footprints from ivy and Noah’s NICU experience.
I can’t let them go.
I keep coming across the clip from one of the kids umbilical cords!
I seriously need to put all my momento’s in some kind of order