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The kids opened their time capsules from the year 2000. We found inside newspapers, photos, hand prints, Star Wars figures (unopened) and some papers that had drawings and writings/dictations the kids had done. It was fun looking at the pictures and reading their predictions for the year 2010.

My daughter had said that she predicted she would be 13 and, she is! She said cars would be “regular” and we would use speaker phones. She was surprised though to pull out a newspaper talking about the “internet and its capabilities” and its popularity!

My son only wanted to read the sports pages from ten years ago. Yankees had won the World Series then too! He was interested to see the top books and other top items from a decade ago. It was cute to see some things he had written, particularly the names of his friends (many of whom he still has.)

Then the kids added a bit more to the time capsule before closing it back up. They each added another newspaper along with letters to themselves. In these letters, they put some goals and ideas for themselves. My daughter had fun making a list of her “favorites” but was unsure about the letter until I assured her that I was not going to make her read the letter to me and that I would not read it.

This will likely be the last time they add to their time capsules. After all, in another ten years my son will be nearly 30 and even now recognizes that by that time, ten years will not bring as many changes. It is rather disconcerting to think that the next decade will bring me to having grown children and likely grandchildren! (How did I get to be so old!!) But, I will have “treasured all these things in my heart”. And many of these are timeless treasures.