I had a chance to go through a suitcase the other day and it really got me thinking – what would be in my suitcase if someone else was looking through it?
See the suitcase belonged to my Aunt who recently passed away, and without having any children to pass her things down to, her things were passed on to other members of her family.
I really like looking at older photo’s and especially ones that are taken way before digital cameras. And the instant photos back in the 70’s in my opinion was a terrible time in the life of capturing any type of photographs!! So my choice is definitely the ones taken probably with a little brownie camera.
So my Mom had the suitcase and asked if I’d like to look at the photos? I would love to! So I eagerly put it in my car and headed home to see just what treasures that I would find in it.
And was I disappointed? Absolutely not!
But what I realized was that in this suitcase held pretty much my Aunt’s whole life story. It held the times that she was growing up on her parents farm before she was married. It held her early life when she was just married and her ‘new’ home on their farm with their first car and the first pieces of farm equipment that they purchased. It also held the many trips around the United States that her and her husband traveled and even pictures of some of the 50 states they traveled to! There were pictures of what she loved to do which included sewing projects, pictures of flowers, and every kind of cake that you could imagine.
There was also some of the best pictures of her husband throughout the years standing at their doorstep either on their farm or in the later years at their house in town with a handful of flowers that he picked someone along the road home just waiting to surprise my Aunt.
I had a couple of pictures that I really liked and I’m thinking of having this one blown up for a wall hanging. It’s my Aunt and Uncle on a road trip in their old car going to an adventure somewhere. What a great picture! 
And what was the best saying on the back of these pictures in the suitcase? Well this one really caught my eye.
The front picture is that of some flowers from their farm. These photo’s are what her whole life was made up of and who she was.
So I’m wondering just what would be in my suitcase? Probably some soap I would guess 🙂
Photos, photos, photos – what a lovely set of pictures you have there! Look how close your aunt is sitting to her husband in that car photo!
I am starting to realize that I should have made books for my children, or at least one for our family. I just kept the photos. Now I’m writing on them and separating them into boxes, one for each child. I figure I should just keep at it and decide later how to do books. I’m a sloth on some activities.
Hey Ruth don’t worry about it! I still haven’t done our son’s high school graduation scrap books and he’ll graduate from college in a couple of weeks 🙂