Well last night we finally got a chance to go through some of the boxes that were in Silje’s closet. When I thought we were going to go through them, Knut came home and offered to take the kids to his parents (Elias too!) and take me to Mable Murphy’s for supper. Sometimes it’s tough to honor your husband when he just comes home and changes your plans, but that was not one of those times.
Knut had more fun going through the boxes, though, than he thought he would. It was getting past 11pm and I told him we better wrap things up, and he looked disappointed.
It’s tough going through your memories, and deciding what stays and what goes. Knut decided to set aside some of his old things for David and Elias in a few years, like his how to draw robots book and 15 ways to make a paper airplane. David also got his old wallet, his old Randy Moss Vikings football jersey and otter football pillow too. Some blank books made it into the kids’ craft drawer, which I’m sure they’ll be thrilled about when they find out.
But as always, when you go through boxes like this, you always wonder “why did I keep this????” We found so much in his boxes like ribbons…lots and lots of ribbons from 4H, county fairs, state fairs, cross country ski races, field days at school…also metals and trophies. I even saw a ribbon with his picture on it with “Good Listener Award” given to him by whatever teacher he had in 87-88 school year. It was so precious I wanted to take a picture of it for the blog, but Knut said I was being silly.
But I did swipe a picture of one of his books that he wrote in his childhood days. Wow, he wrote a lot of books. The one pictured is called “The Life of Knut Corn” and it’s about a nice corn stalk who grows big and strong until the evil farmer comes to cut it down.
He had about 100 “book it” pins along with some other pretty cool ones that his mom gave him from the 60s. There was his first Bible, and lots of pictures. There were ton of senior pictures left over. I told him I wanted to turn them into a deck of cards, which he thought was funny. There were pictures of band trips, choir tours. He kept saying “look at Sam [Hintz] in this one! He looks so funny! There’s Chad [Walkup] in Washington D.C. and here’s Doug [Rogness] on choir tour. Of course…he’s helping the bus driver change a tire.” Then there were pictures when he was out in Bible Camp in Montana. He told me in one of them he was dressed up like a farmer. (He had to tell me this, you see, because I couldn’t tell.)
Yes, all those boys looked pretty funny. I was surprised to see pictures of Knut when I first met him. Wow…he looked really nerdy. Then I saw pictures of me when he met me. Even nerdier. Nerdy must have been “in.” Either that or we were really meant for each other!
So what was thrown you ask? I know you’re all dying to know, so I made a list of things Knut decided we could throw:
old calculous homework
acceptance letters to colleges he didn’t go to
his first ATM card (with his name spelled wrong of course)
high school graduation cards (I know all of you who gave him one are disappointed)
MN driver’s manuel from when he got his license
2001 map of Phoenix (when he stayed down there one summer to meet my whole family)
rubber bands for his old braces
a stack of 200 minute pre-paid phone cards from his first year of college (you know…when he was in the wilderness of Montana and I was in Chicago, and we had to just call and write. Yeah, those 7 cards meant a lot to us!)
The rest of it got organized and stored in the garage, and Knut even said that was kinda fun.
And, to those of you who just read all of that…you’ll be rewarded with infomation as to what the kids are doing. Well, Elias is starting to teethe now. He’s being kinda fussy (for him. His fussy is like what David was like as a happy baby.) Silje has been “copying” her books lately. She insists on practicing her letters, and will take a pile of computer paper, and a pile of books, and spend hours copying every word from the book onto paper. I tell you, this girl is ready for school! And David? Well, I don’t know what to say since the poop story. I am letting his hair grow out a little, to see if I like it without the buzz cut he normally has. I’ll have to post pictures later. It’s not long like a girl, or anything. Just a bit more trendy I guess. So that’s the kids. Hope you enjoyed it.
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