24 March 2009

The Daily Minute

Two nights ago, just started to implement a "Daily Minute"routine. Making a 1-minute recording each by Ben and Sophie. In which they answer questions about whatever they did that day.

We'll see how disciplined we end up being about actually doing these recordings. My hope is that they'll provide an archive of sorts. So that when we move back to Seattle and the kids wonder what life was like back in Holland, they can just poke around in the archive and hear in their own words about a given day.

There will be a lot of "lasts" in the next few months. The last time we'll see tulips bloom here together. The last birthday here. The last day in a Dutch school. The last day we stay in our house. Perhaps the Daily Minute will allow us to capture those milestones, in among the other possibly more mundane bits and pieces.

This could either be a colossal waste of time, taping endless minutes of banal observations. Or a time capsule-like treasure trove of insights into the past on some undetermined future date, when the kids are older and want to find out more about their past. Who knows.

But in any case, this experiment starts today! Well, more accurately, 2 nights ago. But you get the idea. Will post future "minutes" on a sidebar...

>>UPDATE 4/19/09<<

Rather than a sidebar, decided it'd be just as easy to update this post regularly and link to it from a sidebar. Here's the full archive so far...
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