The Past Revised

Over the last few weeks I have been spending quite a bit of time thinking about the past. During the summer I finally broke down and signed onto Facebook - within a few weeks, I had been contacted by one of my old high school classmates - after almost 30 years. Very shortly there after a few more followed until we now have 12 out of the 29 who graduated.

This past weekend, six of us got together - some I had not seen since the last day of school in 1978!! The years have gone by and we have all matured and our lives have gone on. We met for lunch and in some ways nothing and everything had changed. You might not quite recognize the face, but the mannerisms and the speech patterns remained the same after all this time.

I wanted to find a way to show everyone both my family and also one of my favourite hobbies - scrapbooking, so I created a little introduction book to incorporate both loves.

Here are some pictures of my little book:

And here is a picture of the six of us:

Meeting everyone again after almost 30 years was a little nerve wracking and also exciting - we are full of plans to see each other again - and Facebook continues to make it easy to be in touch with our busy days.

One of the funny outcomes of the weekend and my little book is that one of my old school mates had never seen modern scrapbooking and is now making plans to take classes in Victoria! (Ah, I have converted another one!!!)

The saying of "no matter how much things change, they always stay the same" comes to mind - I feel that I was able to bring two parts of my life together - my friends of my youth together with my current love of scrapbooking - the past meets the present.