What a surprise!

I came home Friday afternoon to 5 big black garbage bags of video tapes from our entertainment center area that Adam and Logan had cleaned out! My first reaction was something like, "What have you thrown away?" I imagined all my family tapes and precious memories carelessly tossed aside and I was a little panicked at the thought. But they assured me they had carefully examined their selections of what to keep and what to throw away. Still, I had to look. So I emptied out each bag and sorted through, only to find that they were mostly right. There were a lot of old video tapes of long forgotten tv shows; and so, not many were kept from the reject pile...only a handful of movies and tapes I thought might be worth saving and several to pass along to some other folks who might want them. The "favorite" label on one of the old tapes was one that had been marked over many times where it had been recorded and re-recorded multiple times and finally just said "movie". There were a bunch of unlabeled tapes which I dutifully looked through. I mean, how could I throw them away not knowing what was on them?! Most were more of the same and several I wondered what I was even thinking to have recorded and saved it in the first place. But I did find a couple of treasures... Adam in the famous box routine, Adrian doing Tooty Fruitie, and Cory's mission pictures, which sparked a debate as to whether Cory, the master cleaner and thrower-outer, would want that tape. My vote was yes, but Adam and Logan said no. So, now the family room is cleaner and more organized thanks to the boys' initiative and I had a nice trip down memory lane!