Time Capsule

Motivated Mom and I have been cleaning out closets this weekend. One of those closets contained some boxes we have been holding onto for College Dude.

Popping the boxes open was like opening a time capsule. (Language Lass, pay attention here.)

There were the stuffed whales that, up until fifth grade, College Dude simply could not got to sleep without.

Then there was the wooden Brio train set. I can't even begin to count how many times Motivated Mom, College Dude, and I assembled and disassembled that train. College Dude never considered the layout a success unless every piece of track was used.

Star Wars ships and figurines filled multiple boxes. I thought back to the countless times College Dude and his friends had saved the galaxy.

There was College Dude's first guitar. He had undertaken the learning of an instrument with some uncertainty, and then discovered he had a knack for it. Motivated Mom and I never understood how that came to be since neither of us can carry a tune.

...And then there was the box with amputated body parts (fake of course- or we would have noticed the smell long ago). These were the props College Dude had used when making his own movie. That movie made it through several cuts of a contest and nearly got College Dude on television.

I guess we should take pictures of these things before College Dude comes to collect them. The memories are worth a million bucks.