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Interrupting memories

Besides trying to remain a devoted blogger/personal journalist, I neglect to stay connected with many people via picture profiling. I confess, I often wonder if I am in some way neglecting my responsibility to keep my distant family and friends informed with constant photo uploads of my life and my children. But then I recall one of the most important memories of my life lacked any footage or photography, because we didn't have iPhones when I got engaged, and it didn't take away from the memory or the recalling of that moment to others. Instead, it allowed my fiancé and I to be fully in that special event.
I just read an article by Greg Morse that speaks perfectly to this new phenomenon of "live-streaming" our days. Morse explains that our camera usage reveals three truths about our current condition: people fear death, seek immortality, and forget eternal hope because they are "memory hoarders." Let me give you a taste of Morse's own wisdom...
"We miss precious moments not because we didn’t have our phones, but because we did. Like kids texting at the dinner table, we forgot to look special moments in the eye. We pass on the first take of life in favor of a later viewing, trading the real for the replica, and in so doing, counterfeiting our joy."
"Our incessant filming often disrupts the very moments we attempt to capture. To record our children playing, we stop playing with our children. To stop. Grab the phone. And proceed. Is often to introduce periods into life, mid-sentence."
"There exists a glory for the Christian in letting precious moments, after being fully tasted and delighted in, pass without regret. He alone need not obsessively stuff memories and prop them up on display like some do wild animals. This is not the closest we will get to heaven."
(all quotes from desiringGod.org)

I certainly have a tendency to capture special moments for nostalgia, and I don't believe there is anything wrong with collecting small souvenirs from the past to recall those gifts we still have in the future. However, when it becomes a hoarding of memories, then we forget to live in the present. I need the reminder to put my phone away so that my company doesn't lose the treasured moment. There are so many memories of joy and laughter that exist merely because I didn't interrupt them with the click of a button. All that said, here are a few moments from our fourth that I now see were better unscripted, rather than taken as s forced pose (cause boys don't want to stop and pose anyway). That's  another reason I love boys!

This is Roman asking to hold Luca.

My response, "no, but you can touch his head" :)

Sweet boy just hopped on our moving wagon without a hiccup.


Ro Ro can eat his weight in watermelon and edamame

Summer days are the best with watermelon!

Show off those melon-building muscles Levi!

Luca's first trip to the pool was pretty cool

At home sparklers and fireworks were a hit

Party of six! Crazy!





Annual blueberry picking was rather hot this year, so we only got a small batch to enjoy

This picture was worth taking cause I didn't interrupt anyone to take it!
~Interrupting Buster

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