When I stopped making Liam’s videos at age 10, there was a decent amount of discourse in our family.
I could understand that.
Family videos all started with Liam’s, after all. The point of these have always been four dimensional in concept….
- Collect, organize and celebrate life memories.
- Make these videos highly accessible and easy to find for future generations.
- Deliver the ‘feels’ accurately
- Make my kids feel like rockstars. Because life is hard enough and kids (all kids) are amazing and need to be reminded of so.
But the plan was never to stop making them after 10 years old. Just to “realign” the occurrence of them. Making a ‘middle school’ video was always the path. I kept that secret though.
The intro of this video is particular meaningful to me. Only twice before have I done an intro in front of the main video, those were Luca’s autism diagnosis and Leo’s recap of his rough newborn year. Intro videos are important. They have a high bar. I don’t take doing them lightly. To say it plainly, this intro exceeds the bar in emotion and ‘feels’.
As always, I feel so honored to make these videos. The long nights with just me and the footage is truly magical.
We love you Liam. I can’t believe you’re basically a high schooler. Where just like everything else in life…..you will be magnificent at!
Watching you grow up has been nothing short of delightful.
Happy Graduation :)
ddileo 