Missing Memories

I realised today that I’m doing a pretty poor job of recording and documenting Mathew. I’m determined not to be one of those parents that bores people to death with baby photos or clogs up the internet with ‘look what he did today’ videos, but I think I’ve gone a bit far to the other extreme. I checked my phone and I’ve taken a grand total of 14 photographs since the day he was born. It’s good, in a way, as it means I am very much enjoying each moment and being present in it rather than stepping away from reality to record it, but it would be nice to have the odd snap here and there to look back on in future times. Trouble is that I just get lost in what I’m doing when I’m with him and I don’t think about things like cameras. I don’t want that to change, either, but I do want to get better at recording things. It’s all about finding the happy middle ground. I just need to get into the habit of grabbing the odd image where appropriate and then the portfolio will grow bit-by-bit.

I was watching ‘Countryfile’ on BBC1 at the weekend and they had a report from a Primary School where a company have set up some motion-triggered cameras so the kids can see what different kinds of wildlife wander around the school grounds when no-one’s looking. Maybe I should set up some of those around the house, then we could just go about our everyday lives, knowing Mathew’s growth was being captured without us having to actively pick up technology and click a button.

I think I may have accidentally and accurately predicted exactly what every house will be like in about 5 years’ time.

RC 12-2-19