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Parental Visit
Feb. 8th, 2009 11:15 pmMy mom came down on Friday from Missouri for the start of a two week (ish, sort of open-ended) visit. The reason she came, other than because she ♥ me, is for us to go through all of the family photos and put them in albums with labels instead of letting them languish in boxes for decades. We didn't do much on them Friday or Saturday, because of stuff I needed to do around town, but we put in about 5 hours on them today. Our conversations have consisted of things like this:
Mom: "This was [Cousin A] at Christmas 1991.
Me: "It can't be, the developer stamp on the back says May 1989."
Me *rushing triumphantly out of bathroom in a rush, hair half-wet*: "That was winter 1987, the ones of [Cousin B] holding [Cousin C]'s daughter. It had to be, because she's wearing the jackets we got from the band fundraiser in 7th grade, and it was only cool to wear them that year."
Me *frustrated*: I'm pretty sure we had at least two Christmases a year in the 80s. We definitely have some extra Christmases here."
Seriously, word to the wise, even if you're not doing anything with your photos, put a sticky note on them that says what year they are. Otherwise you end up doing things like calling your sister to ask her what year it was that she was engaged at Christmas (awkward, because said fiancé broke it off) and your sister-in-law to find out if they moved to Texas in '84 or '85.
Mom: "This was [Cousin A] at Christmas 1991.
Me: "It can't be, the developer stamp on the back says May 1989."
Me *rushing triumphantly out of bathroom in a rush, hair half-wet*: "That was winter 1987, the ones of [Cousin B] holding [Cousin C]'s daughter. It had to be, because she's wearing the jackets we got from the band fundraiser in 7th grade, and it was only cool to wear them that year."
Me *frustrated*: I'm pretty sure we had at least two Christmases a year in the 80s. We definitely have some extra Christmases here."
Seriously, word to the wise, even if you're not doing anything with your photos, put a sticky note on them that says what year they are. Otherwise you end up doing things like calling your sister to ask her what year it was that she was engaged at Christmas (awkward, because said fiancé broke it off) and your sister-in-law to find out if they moved to Texas in '84 or '85.
