An Innocent Time

A few months ago I had all my VHS tapes converted to DVD. Once upon a time I was an avid video taper, taping everything I possibly could of my little family. I feared that the VHS tapes would one day disintegrate or maybe simply there would be nothing to watch them on anymore. So I had them converted. I wanted to leave them for my daughter Stephanie.

I was watching them yesterday and came across one I had completely forgotten about.

This is when I was around 32 years old, Kaitlyn was around 2 and Stephanie around 6. I was in nursing school and thank goodness I had a regular job to go to as I would have never made it as a guitar player or singer.  Just know that I had not picked up a guitar in about 8 years and was never really good at it to start with and I had not practiced beforehand and did not know how to play any of the songs we tried to sing except a little of the song I sung part of at the end. But this video is really not about that.

The reason I wanted to show it is show of a time when all was right with the world. I had a wonderful husband (still do), I was in nursing school about to start a new career, we had our little home and most importantly, I had my sweet, beautiful girls.

This is a time when I had it all and my daughter’s lives loomed out before them. Thank God I didn’t know what would happen 21 years into the future, the worst thing I could ever imagine.

But here we were, in happy times…..though I’m sure they were traumatized by this event. I may have sounded a bit irritable in some places….:)

Don’t ever take anything in life for granted. But you know what, I never, ever did. I knew how lucky I was….always.