Unknown Home Video, No Label At first, but NOW There Is!

August 3, 2012.

Yesterday was quite busy.  I cooked a couple of things for my meals/snacks, then spent a while on piddly things, yesterday afternoon, straightened up some more of the living room, and had my supper. Realizing that I had earned some relaxation time, I put a home video into the TV set, that had absolutely no label at all. I didn't know what in the world was on it. But, of course, I just had to know this minute! 

I turned it on, sat with bated breath wondering what I'd see. The first item was a beautiful baby with brown hair, a crawling baby, recently learning to crawl, and then a few minutes later, I heard her Mommy's voice urging her on. I thought I recognized at once, the baby's face, but the sound of Mommy's voice made me very sure of the baby's identity…  It was Esther!

(She was one of my beloved grandchildren; whom I saw being born! What an exciting experience it is to see a child being born...               Something never to be forgotten.)

Then that little episode of her crawling was followed by another episode of a later date, and many more. Most of them were of Esther and her eight-year-old sister Naomi playing: Naomi carrying her (all older siblings think this is the greatest of pleasures!), reading books to her, showing her the pictures, keeping her nearby, sort of like a shepherdess herding her sheep, trying to coax her to say 'book', 'dog' and other words, and keeping the baby’s attention.   

Then there was the Christmas Tree being decorated by Uncle Joe who came to visit his sister and nieces. Esther by that time was 'helping' for a few minutes, then coming very close to the camera, wanting to 'smile for the camera', without knowing how to say that, then doing a puzzle of large pieces, but that was too boring. So Uncle Joe finished the rest of the six-piece puzzle!  

Next Scene:

Here comes a birthday cake for Uncle Joe, and his opening up his presents. After that, there were a couple of birthdays later on in the springtime. There was a joyful Birthday Party for Naomi with six or seven girlfriends. Esther was in her high chair, enjoying watching so many people! And then, of course, there was the Birthday Cake with the lit candles for Naomi to blow out! ~ and some of them just wouldn't stay 'out'. ~ "Mommy! Are these Trick Candles?" 

The rest of the movie was of Christmas Day; Mommy, Naomi, Esther, Daddy, adolescent step-brother Joey, everyone having a good time looking at all the presents that Santa had left around the Tree. Such a lovely morning of opening all the presents, taking turns so that everyone knows what each received, then the next round of taking turns opening. Next comes the awful mess of torn wrapping paper scattered all over the room. Clean-up time comes afterward.

That was a most wonderful video, and it was such a delightful surprise for me last evening! Now I am wondering why, oh, why, was there no label on it? Being very curious, I just had to see what it was!

There is now a label! 

I’ll see you at the Corner Post…