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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Rambi who wrote (10514)5/11/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: jhild  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Penni, you know your bonnet story reminds me that I have a pile of these drawings and things that the kids have done. I can't bring myself to throw them out. I have been able to edit them down to a manageable selection that represents their drawing through the years. And many have colorfully adorned the refrigerator and various walls for some period of time.

Whether or not they ever get looked at again, I have no idea. It's just that I have the idea that having them when they get older may help them to get in touch with seeing their lives in a more holistic way. A bottle recovered from the seas of time with something from the past.

I think this stems from my own experience of seeing my old drawing artifacts when I was clearing out my parents house after their passing. I can remember looking at my old work, pencil and crayon scratchings on long yellowed paper, and being in an instant transported to that time. At the same time as a parent I could immediately relate to why my mother kept them and what they may have meant to her and how her keeping them reached out to me to communicate even then after her passing. I keep them I think, if only to give them each that moment of reminder that I have valued what they have done, and that I have saved these simple treasures that once were so proudly given.

Never mind that they are my treasured reminders of these happy times of their early journey in life.
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