I have been cleaning my office today. One thing I do while working and cleaning in my office is watch movies. Usually movies I don’t have to “watch” because I have seen them so many times. I can work, whether it be scrapbooking, or whatever, and listen while I am doing it. Today, while I was working in my office, I decided to watch some of our family videos.
What a fun thing to do!!!
We have some great family videos. We have been on some wonderful trips and video taped activities that the kids have done. As I watched and listened today, I noticed something that I wish I could change. I don’t usually have regrets, mostly because even when a situation isn’t the best, I still learn and grow from it. What I wish I could change is my focus.
In all of our family videos, mostly on trips, I focused on the place we were visiting. Lots of video taping of places and things. Places and things, that I thought would be important to our family while watching them later. Now, my little darlings are grown up. I wish I taped “them” looking the things, or just taping “them” having fun at the places we visited. I do have video of them. I just wish I had more video of them. I think I was thinking at the time, “We’re here and we’ll probably never be back, so I better have lots of pictures of these things, so we won’t forget!”
So this is just a little FYI.
When video taping, tape your kids!
Tape them so much that you think, “No one will ever want to watch this much video of my kids!!”
Someone will…you will.