The Discovery

Christmas 2005
I was looking for baby pictures of myself to proove to my husband that I look like my daughter and had as much hair as she does as a baby. In my mothers closet where she keeps all of the photo albums, I discovered a bag of pictures and correspondences of my Grandmothers. Now I am not a huge scrapbook artist, but I do enjoy the process of taking pictures and telling a story through scrapbooking, and this bag of pictures appeared to me to be an opportunity to create the story of my Grandmother. I asked my mom if I could do this for her, and she jumped at the chance, offering to pay for the supplies. So I pulled the bag out and dicovered two more boxes and several mounted professional photos. My mom helped me locate a large plastic tub to haul the pictures home. (oddly, stored in the tub were pictures from my dad's mom - next project I guess) So the pictures are now in my computer room awaiting discovery.

My first look
My husband was not feeling well, and went to bed early. I have been debating with myself if I should get started going through all of the 'stuff', or wait till I had some organizing tools. With some self reflection I realized that if I did not get started, it might be months before I got all of the 'correct tools' to manage this task, and that I was better off just grabing some boxes (and at this time of the year we have plenty just laying around). My intial thinking was to just start weeding out all of the pictures from the letters, box the letters up and send them to my mom. That is not what happened however, and this has lead me to create this blog to journal my thoughts as I sift through the letters of my grandmother and her parents.