Storage From The Memory Lane

This was an awesome day! We received our stored shipment from when we were moving from Florida to Japan. That was SEVEN years ago that we packed our stuff away.... so of course we forgot what we even put in those boxes!

Some of the interesting things were in our memory boxes. For example, this is a letter I wrote to my papa when I was little, probably seven or so. I told him about my trip from Kyiv to Dubno and how I went to the theater in Kyiv three times, and how I went on the metro and the escalator:)




Or here is a journal entry from the journal I tried to keep when I was around ten or eleven and we were spending our summer months in Dubno with Katia and Olia.



And then there were my two dresses I kept because they came with so many memories. This first one was actually a remake of my mom's dress that was made in GERMANY! It was a huge deal for her to buy this dress and it looked a bit different, sort of scrunched up at the bottom but then was redesigned for me. I wore it many times and always felt so great wearing it:)

And this second dress I wore when I was thirteen as well (it's kind of big on Katya though). It's a dress my mom found in one of our second hand shops in Lviv. It became my very fancy dress, good enough to perform my piano recitals in. I loved it.

And then there was this. It said "HORSE" on the box and we just laughed out loud. WHAT HORSE?

Oh yes, the HUUUUUGE horse that Lisa gave us as a present (I didn't remember that fact at all). She actually gave it to little Katya. We apparently decided that there would be no room for a horse in Japan, so we packed it away. Not knowing it would be packed away for SEVEN years, of course.



Robert was reveling in his memory boxes too. He found lots of pictures, letters, stuff that he forgot he had and was so glad he kept. Although some things were kind of like "why in the world would I keep that?" At least he was glad he kept his jacket.

Oh, this was hilarious to find! Apparently when I was ten-eleven, I wrote this weekly comic newspaper for our family! It's amazing:) And creative! And I can't believe that I was this good (not at drawing though..my cat still looks exactly the same). Oh, it was refreshing to read that:)

Finally, these are the glasses that I remember we had growing up. They are beautiful. My mom bought them the year when I was born and I still have all six of them. For now they are sitting on a shelf, but I do intend to use them as they bring me good memories.

I am not able to share any pictures of Robert's memories as he had them on his phone...so I am sorry:).

This right here just reinforced my belief how important it is to keep some things in a special memory box for the future. We were able to sit down with our kids and have them pick out three items each from our boxes and ask us to tell us more about those items. It's amazing what sort of new facts and experiences we were able to share just because of those keepsakes:).

Lyana.