4500 Pages of Text Messages & Example 1

Before Bryce took over Adri's phone, I downloaded all of our text messages between us that were still on the Apple server, which in this case went back to 2017, but no further. Still, when saved to PDF that amounted to over four thousand pages of texts.

It's a lot to wade through; she texted multiple times a day for almost 20 years. There's a significant number that are not pleasant, times when she was at her at her wits' end on a given day, or complaining about this or that, but there is also the mundane, the daily checking in and questions and well-wishes and observations about little things. It's a lot, and again, much of it I don't want to necessarily revisit, at least not right now.

But I decided today to go through them, anyway, trying to cull out all the great things she said about her children so I could compile all of that for them. I think it's something that they'll enjoy reading one day... their mother's thoughts on them: her love, her devotion, her  pride.

I'm on page 445. Almost 10% done after working on it all day.

I'm also culling out some stuff she said to me that is insightful or meaningful and saving that to a separate document for me.

I'm going to share some occasionally (I mean, you knew that was coming, right? 😉 )

Here's the first one:

10/5/2017 6:26:58 PM

 

When Wes cuddles me he’s so light, it’s like nothing is on my chest. I love it. I want a picture of me and him, like the one you took of me and Bryce. When we sleep like that Bryce lays next to me and holds my hair,  LOL.  I love our naps! ok xoxoxox