Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Time Capsule

I am going to start a new project with the boys in a few days. We are going to each make a time capsule to be opened later in life. I'm going to suggest 21 for them because when I was little one of my cousins was at my house shortly after her 21st birthday and was opening hers and I thought it was cool, but they can choose a different age if they want. I am going to choose to open mine at age 30. So far, I have only thought of a few items to include: an "All About Me" book which will cover all the favorites, what they want to do when they grow up, and their height and weight, hand and foot prints, a letter to their future selves and a picture of the three of us. I'm having a hard time thinking of other things to put in aside from a newspaper. I thought about printing out copies of the Billboard Chart for the week we seal them so that they can see what was popular when they were little. We are going to put the stuff in shoe boxes and them paper mache them shut. When they dry, the boys can paint them. I've been told by 2 people that the men on Full House did one. I was not pleased since I loathe that show. If anyone has any suggestions of items to include...let me know. I was also thinking of making copies of their swimming lesson certificates because that is something they did this summer. I'm sure the boys will come up with some good ideas about what to include. I'm pretty excited. The hardest part is going to be getting a picture of the three of us. I guess I'll have their mom take it one morning before she goes to work one morning. Their cousins are coming to town next week and I offered to take all the kids of the Bettsville Quarry to swim one day, and the boys' mom said that her sister might go along too since she'll have nothing else to do so maybe she can take a few pictures of us that day and then I'll have a few to choose from. I hope it is nice out next week so I can do that. I love the Quarry because it keeps the boys busy for hours! Right now, the kids and I are about to wash my car so I have to get stuff around for that.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is such a cute idea!! That will definitely be something fun for you to do with the boys!

Marissa said...

Put in the day's newspaper. Even if they aren't interested in news right now, they probably will be a few years from now. All of the ads and everything will be dated. Nice...

Anonymous said...

it wasn't so much a time capsule on full house, as it was a sacrifice for their "soul brothers" forever pledge. so no worries there :)