Our Easter pic one year
I was on a mission to find the Goldsmith fam video today. After we had to scrap the paint the front door project due to weather. It's breezy and coldish. Even bought the paint, but there will be other weekends for that.
A couple weekends ago I looked in the the plastic bin of the kids baby stuff, including Patrick's stuff - thinking the very first VHS tape we made was in there. Alas, no. This afternoon I looked through the videos in our room, in the space under the TV and sure 'nuff there it was along with all the other videos - mostly sports tapes of the kids. But that first one is special as we had to borrow and rent cam corders (they were the size of TV cameras back then) to get pics of our kids.
The first time was for Jud's baptism at age 4 months - we got all of our parents in there, along with Schneid, who we named as one of Jud's godparents along with Paul's sis Jean. The 3 Fox girls were there - big hair for all as it was 1989. Paul's sis Carol and her first husband Carol was there too.
I think I put Dad in charge of doing the recording at church - since he was not Catholic (you may recall he was CountryClubian -playing 18 on most Sundays, and pitch during the off season). He did a pretty good job. Fr. Stessman presided. Amy was quite a ham at age 3 - very dramatic with the candle and some interesting faces for the camera. Jud was a little angel for the most part. (considering the rest of his early childhood especially)
After the ceremony - which I think we did mid afternoon on a Saturday in April, so Mom and Dad were back from Florida, everyone came back to our house for a meal. The camera mostly shows people around chatting. Paul and I took turns shooting the "action". or lack thereof. If I could go back and do it again, I'd ask pithier questions - get some footage of each of our parents. But ah well...who knew...
We also borrowed our neighbors, the Tyners camera a couple times those early years. They were swell neighbors - let us borrow their Ford pickup too - to haul stuff to the compost site. And they loved the kids. Anyway - we have a lot of somewhat boring footage of our children watching TV. I know - stupid. We did get some footage from the park, where Amy took a dive on the "swinging bridge". Paul always asked the kids how old they were each and every time we filmed them.
The sweetest footage is of our baby Patrick. So very cute - and so very left undone. It was all taken before we knew he was sick. He's perfect - looks much like the other two and yet, not. His hair is darker. It makes me wish I could have experienced his life with him, as with Amy and Jud.
I'm glad our children are "all growed up" yet I kinda miss lil Amy and Jud. Maybe someday we'll have grandkids we can spoil. But not too soon!
A couple weekends ago I looked in the the plastic bin of the kids baby stuff, including Patrick's stuff - thinking the very first VHS tape we made was in there. Alas, no. This afternoon I looked through the videos in our room, in the space under the TV and sure 'nuff there it was along with all the other videos - mostly sports tapes of the kids. But that first one is special as we had to borrow and rent cam corders (they were the size of TV cameras back then) to get pics of our kids.
The first time was for Jud's baptism at age 4 months - we got all of our parents in there, along with Schneid, who we named as one of Jud's godparents along with Paul's sis Jean. The 3 Fox girls were there - big hair for all as it was 1989. Paul's sis Carol and her first husband Carol was there too.
I think I put Dad in charge of doing the recording at church - since he was not Catholic (you may recall he was CountryClubian -playing 18 on most Sundays, and pitch during the off season). He did a pretty good job. Fr. Stessman presided. Amy was quite a ham at age 3 - very dramatic with the candle and some interesting faces for the camera. Jud was a little angel for the most part. (considering the rest of his early childhood especially)
After the ceremony - which I think we did mid afternoon on a Saturday in April, so Mom and Dad were back from Florida, everyone came back to our house for a meal. The camera mostly shows people around chatting. Paul and I took turns shooting the "action". or lack thereof. If I could go back and do it again, I'd ask pithier questions - get some footage of each of our parents. But ah well...who knew...
We also borrowed our neighbors, the Tyners camera a couple times those early years. They were swell neighbors - let us borrow their Ford pickup too - to haul stuff to the compost site. And they loved the kids. Anyway - we have a lot of somewhat boring footage of our children watching TV. I know - stupid. We did get some footage from the park, where Amy took a dive on the "swinging bridge". Paul always asked the kids how old they were each and every time we filmed them.
The sweetest footage is of our baby Patrick. So very cute - and so very left undone. It was all taken before we knew he was sick. He's perfect - looks much like the other two and yet, not. His hair is darker. It makes me wish I could have experienced his life with him, as with Amy and Jud.
I'm glad our children are "all growed up" yet I kinda miss lil Amy and Jud. Maybe someday we'll have grandkids we can spoil. But not too soon!
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