I've got it in the bag!

After two years of research, scanning, and writing, it's finally done. I've finished and published Bud's life stories book. For six and a half years I've listened to his stories about his life and I've collected them and transcribed them. I went through boxes of old photographs and scanned them in. I matched to stories to the photos and complied them into what will be wrapped and put under the tree for Bud's Christmas present this year. I'm anxious to see how he responds to the book. I'm sure there will be tears. He has for years said that someone should write a book about his life. And now his dream has been realized. The past few years his memory has gone down hill fast and I wonder if when he reads it he will be shocked by the stories or think that I got it all wrong. And then I wonder if I can just show him the book every day to remind him that I know all the stories already when he gets on one of his rants about life...

Here's a preview: But, it doesn't do it justice. To see it in person in my hands it's so much more... It's also interesting to note, that Debbie said that she hadn't see most of the photos from when he was young. My parents have so few that I've seen them all...