This is really exciting!
AÂ little town down south of here is on the brink of celebrating the existence of the place where Anthony grew up.
Long story short: I’ve been asked to find old photos of this beautiful place which is now a tree park.
I am taking the box of old photos into the nursing lodge tomorrow to see what Anthony can remember – and I already know he will remember everything.
And the committee women who are organizing the event are coming up to visit Anthony next week. I told them that he planted some of these trees as a boy.
This is so exciting!
jmgoyder 
This is truly wonderful. I found with mom that, even when she wasn’t sure if she’d had lunch, or where she’d left her wallet, she could hone in on things from the farther past and really enjoy it. Sometimes she seemed not to have a clue, but eventually I figured out “I don’t remember” translated as “I’m tired and want to quit looking for a while.”
This is such a neat project – and how nice that the others are coming to visit!
I think Ants will love this – I hope so and it is so great, as you say, that the people are going to visit.
That will be exciting.. c
Fingers crossed!
What exciting news to share with us… that should give Ant a thrill…. lovely, exciting, and you seem full of joy… and that makes me smile…
I am hoping!
I adore boxes of old photos…it’s a universal smile in a box! I do so hope that you two enjoy your trip down memory lane…such a wonderful way to share some hours together.
xo
Yes I am really thinking this might be a wonderful thing as a lot of my other ideas re Ants end up being a disaster – oh well!
Not disasters…it’s that old Murphy’s Law thing…someone needs to go kick Murphy in the ass! Here’s added wishes for you that the time spent doing this is all you hope it to be! xo
I’ll see how it pans out tomorrow!
Sweet Dreams Unruly….here’s to tomorrow being all it can be!
xo
UH (gee, really doesn’t have the same flow does it?)
Now this is going to be quite splendid for Anthony (and everyone else). They say it can be some of the best therapy he could get, remembering and explaining. do so look forward to how it goes!
Me too – I have my hopes up halfway – thank you!
hopefully anthony will like this walk down memory lane
I am hopeful!
A great way to delve through memories, for you and Anthony.
I have thought of doing this before with those photos – good now to have a deadline!
I can imagine what a wonderful thing this will be to do. See photos of trees Anthony planted when young will be lots of fun for you both.
Hope you both have an enjoyable time going through the box. Perhaps even do it over 2-3 days so Anthony doesn’t get too tired.
Very good idea to do it in bits – I tend to rush things – thank you Victoria!
Julie, why is it that Ants and Al can remember things from when they were almost babies, but nothing today? I am glad you are able to be a part of this historical event. It will occupy your mind, help you and Ants do something together, plus it will be fun!!!!
All I know is that with any kind of dementia, whether AD or PDD, the long ago past is more vivid.
it seems to be so true
Old photos hold so much information besides just memories.
Some of them are ancient but unfortunately not labelled and way before Anthony’s time even!
So wonderful ~ tell us how it goes!! xo Love to you Julie xxx
Going in this arvo with Ming – trying to sort some of the photos myself first.
We went through old photos with grandma, what a wonderful day that was. I recommend if you can do it, is audio record the conversations about the photos. I did that with grandma. I just put a recorder in my jacket pocket, pushed record, and started showing photos and asking questions.
I hope it goes great!
I wish I had done the audio thing earlier – Ants speech is quite bad now – very mumbly.
Ah, well. Hope things were terrific!
Sounds fantastic and should be a wonderful event for you too! 🙂
It is going to take all week!
Enjoy it! 🙂
What a wonderful surprise .. and something to keep him occupied with. Hopefully he will recognize some faces. Love the old box. When I moved back to Sweden .. I had been carrying photos for years around the world .. and I had photos and negative in storage in Sweden for all those years. I dumped them all. Nobody comes after me in our family and I never looked at my photos. Just tired of them all.
Some of these are so old that nobody will know anything about them – oh well!
That does sound exciting – I hope you and Ants get a great deal of joy out of this experience!
Starting this afternoon!
That’s so fabulous. Very special for your husband.
It is going to take a few days – there are hundreds of photos!
This sounds like the perfect project! It will be mutually beneficial to Anthony and to the committee women!
Those women are so excited!
I have been going through some old photos the last couple of days………..and I love going through them.
It’s fun isn’t it!
Hey, Julie… My hard drive crashed before the weekend, so I’ve MIA. I’m using my old ACER (which is crap), but at least I can check my email. Gotta say that Anthony robbed the cradle and looks like the cat who ate the canary! You were a beautiful bride! Good memories. Rick and I celebrated our 37th anniversary last Thursday. We ate seafood Friday night which is a treat for us. Quite non-eventful for the 37th. I guess this is the way it is now. Wish we were neighbors, and we could go see Hope Springs together and laugh! We would have a great time. I hope you find joy in your day today. XO, Debbie Debbie Wisdom is supreme; therefore, get wisdom. Proverbs 4:7 Blog: http://dcwisdom.wordpress.com/
Congratulations on 37 years – wow! Thank you so much for this.
How exciting Jules for all three of you although Mind might not quite fully appreciate how cool this is yet. I said might, that son of your’s never ceases to amaze me in such great ways. In fact thinking out loud here like a nosy OLD auntiish kind of way; that it would be so cool if they would let Ming plant a tree there too.
I think it’s about time this family has something so incredible to look forward to. Lots & Lots of photos to go with the great stories you’ll record after.
Like how I am your manager? LOl…
That tree-planting idea is brilliant BB!
I love photography and photographs… They are so precious… I have so little from the family photographs… And I don’t know who was/were and where was it and even when it was… This is great project and so exciting too. You are amazing lady dear Julie, and always doing something so nice and meaningful… Good Luck for these old photographs, Thank you, love, nia
We have now found a number of photos that are so old that nobody who is still alive will know who the people are etc. I might send you some of these with your present just for fun!