Annual "year box" tradition

Nine years running now we have painted a box to hold our memories and scraps from the year.  The kids always love this -- both the painting, and the looking through of old mementos.

Strider pulled out a few of the boxes from several years ago, and that was fun, too -- to see all the things that seem so far away and yet so yesterday.

This tradition is providing a fun way for me to see the kids growing, too, as I take the same pictures from year to year.  Here are a few from former years:

And now look at them!

Time flies!