[Parenting] Create an app for recording messages for children

Been meaning to get this off my chest. My dad passed away suddenly. My oldest son wasn't even two. My second son was born two months after he passed. Neither of them will have real memories of their grandfather. I constantly try to reinforce memories of my dad with my older son (by showing him family videos, talking about him often, and so on) but I wonder how much of it will all be 'manufactured' memories... What I would do to go back in time and tell my dad, hey - *do you have any messages for your grandkids? Any advice for when they're older? For me??* Every time I think of my dad, I wish I had more from him, and so thought...well, what can I do for my kids. So I started recording messages for them, e.g., talking into my phone on random evenings about what happened that day, what they did that made me laugh. I hit record, ramble on and on, and save the audio or video. I've even sent emails to my kids accounts that I've set up, that I hope they'd see in the future, so they'd know how much I love them. It's an effort to do all this, so I whipped up an app to make it easier for me and my wife to just do it and not regret it later in life. Technology these days is incredible. There are a bunch of instagram reels and tiktoks about all this stuff, about how quickly time goes by, especially when you've got little kids, and how important it is to savor the moment you have with them right now. My older son is now 3.5 years old...where has the time gone by! The other side of this is that...I see my mom getting older and I get damn scared about how time really is flying by, and how one day, the world as I now know it will no longer be that way. So I am trying to get her to record as much as possible as well, every random little moment. If you've been meaning to do something like this, don't put it off. Just hit record on a random Saturday night. Talk about nothing. It may be the one they'll have on repeat someday.