You Pinspire Me
Full disclosure: I was compensated for this post, but all words, thoughts & ideas here are mine alone, and, for the record, I really, REALLY love the OneDay App. Go download it. Now. It’s FREE! Plus, you could win a $150 gift card to Amazon by downloading it. Keep reading for deets!
When I was still at my last place of work before the kids came along, we used to say that our whole office would be in terrible trouble if the boss ever got hit by a bus, because 3/4 of the knowledge that we required to do our jobs well would vanish in an instant! Have you ever thought about what your kids would know about your life if you suddenly got hit by a bus? I know, not a pleasant topic, but one that I’ve considered more than once.
I’ll be honest, I don’t want them reading my diaries. I don’t want anyone reading my diaries. What a terrible, horrible, melodramatic soul I was in elementary, high school, and university! NO ONE needs to read that crap. Trust me. You don’t need to know which table my first-month-of-university-crush sat at in the cafeteria, or which girl he was seen sitting next to in PED-222. It’s for the best that we skip over the conversations that I had with him, verbatim, about pancakes vs waffles.
I do, however, want the kids to know about my university experience, about my life as a teenager, about our wedding day, and the days that they were born. What if I never get to tell them these stories? What if I don’t get to tell my grand kids these stories?
That’s where the One Day app comes in. You read about it here last month and saw the awesome little interviews that I got out of my kids with it – well, this time, it’s all about ME. Well, actually, it’s not about me – it’s about me making deposits for my kids. Whether I’m around or not around a couple years from now, ten years from now, 30 years from now – I get a real kick out of thinking about the kids watching these as they grow up.
Yes, folks, I DID forget to say the ACTUAL DATE AND YEAR in which I was born. Duh. #performanceanxiety
I told you last month that I wouldn’t share any of the videos that I had made of myself, but my rubber arm has been twisted, and it is with great anxiety and much self-criticism that I share this interview of myself with you. I’m sorry (for you) for the 12 minute length – don’t feel like you have to watch it through! However, I do actually love the thing as a whole piece if I can convince myself that it’s not me.
I highly encourage you to download the app to your iPhone or iPad – it’s so so much fun to do with the kids, and a real experience to do for yourself, too! (I had never really considered some of these questions before – they really made me pause and think!) If your kids are a bit older than mine, you can have them turn the camera on and interview you for a change – maybe it’ll even make you less self-conscious than it made me to sit in an empty room & talk to the iPad! 🙂
If that hasn’t encouraged you to download it – maybe this will – there’s a $150 Amazon GC giveaway listed below in which you get FIVE ENTRIES if you download the app – so go ahead – you know you want to!!
Jenn vanOosten
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Such a great way to preserve cherished family memories for years to come. I often wish that I would have interviewed my grandparents about their lives growing up. I thought about it many times but never got the courage to.
I am so with you there, Brandy!! My grandparents died when I was pretty young (THEY weren’t young, they both survived past 90!), so I don’t know nearly as much about them as I wish I did!!
Was nice getting to know you with the video, Jenn 🙂
Hah, thanks, Mona! Hey, you go download the app and interview yourself and then I can get to know you, too! 😉
It’s hard to think of ONE thing. I have lots of questions that I would have loved to have answered by my Mom, who died too young.
I would love to share (and manage to make them believe) that they truly are okay just the way they are!