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✦ Demo Experience — This is what Emma received on her 18th birthday.  ·  Back to main site
June 14, 2042 · Emma's 18th Birthday

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Emma's Chronicle

Everything they left
for you. All at once.

Opened June 14, 2042 · Sealed June 14, 2024

Your account balance
$23,847
529 college savings · contributed over 18 years by 8 people who loved you
👵 Grandma Carol
$100/mo · 14 years of contributions
$12,400
👴 Grandpa Jim
$50/mo · 18 years of contributions
$6,200
⚾ Uncle Mike
One-time contribution · age 9
$500
🌸 Aunt Sarah
Birthday contributions · 10 years
$2,000
🏈 Coach Rivera
One-time · after state championship
$250
+ 3 others
Family friends · various
$2,497
14 recordings · sealed until today
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Grandma Carol ✦ Gone but here
Recorded June 14, 2024 · the day you were born
🎂 Sealed for your 18th birthday
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Welcome to the world, sweet girl. I've been waiting for you my whole life — and I didn't even know it until the moment they put you in my arms this morning.

You are so small. You have your father's nose and your mother's hands and you have no idea what's waiting for you. I do. And it is so much more beautiful than you can imagine.

I'm recording this because I know how fast time moves. I know that by the time you hear this I'll be different — older, slower, maybe not here at all. But I want you to know who I was on the day you arrived. I was a grandmother holding her granddaughter for the first time, and I have never in my life felt anything like this.

I love you before you know what love is. I'm proud of you before you've done a single thing. I believe in you before you know there's anything to believe in.

Whatever this day finds you — I hope you know that. I hope you've always known that.

Happy 18th birthday, Emma. I've been waiting for this moment for you since the day you were born.

— Grandma Carol, recorded June 14, 2024
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Dad
Recorded August 22, 2029 · your first day of kindergarten
🎂 Sealed for your 18th birthday
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You were so nervous this morning. You didn't need to be. You never do.

I'm 34 years old right now. I live in the house on Maple Street. I drink too much coffee and I'm not as patient as I want to be and I love your mother more than I know how to say. My back hurts when it rains. I still think about quitting and starting that woodworking thing. I probably won't.

I want you to know who I was when you were small. Because by the time you hear this I'll be different. You'll have only ever known grown-up Dad. This is young Dad — scared and proud and completely unprepared for how much a five-year-old could make him feel like everything was going to be okay.

That was you today. Backpack almost as big as you were. Waved goodbye without looking back. I cried in the car.

I love you more than any words I know. Happy 18th, Em. I hope the world has been good to you.

— Dad, recorded August 22, 2029 · your first day of kindergarten
Uncle Mike
Recorded May 3, 2033 · after your first home run
🎂 Sealed for your 18th birthday
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Kid, I'm sitting in the bleachers right now and I'm shaking. You just hit it over the left field fence and you stood there for a second before you ran — like you couldn't believe it either. I could. I've always been able to.

I've never been more sure of anything — you're going to do something great with this life. I don't know what it is. I don't think you know yet either. But I've been watching you since before you could walk and there is something in you that doesn't know how to quit.

Remember that when it gets hard. And it will get hard. That's not a threat — that's just the deal. But you have that thing. That whatever-it-is. I've seen it.

Proud of you today and every day, Em. Now go run the bases.

— Uncle Mike, recorded May 3, 2033 · from the bleachers
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Mom
Recorded December 24, 2036 · Christmas Eve
🎂 Sealed for your 18th birthday
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You're asleep upstairs. It's Christmas Eve and you're twelve and you still believe, just barely, and I can't bring myself to be the one who changes that.

I want to tell you something I don't say enough. You are the best thing I have ever done. Not because of anything you've accomplished — because of who you are when nobody's watching. The way you check on your friends. The way you remember things that matter to other people. The way you laughed at dinner tonight until milk came out of your nose and then laughed harder because of that.

I hope when you hear this you are happy. Really happy — not performing happiness, not settling for fine. If you're not, please call me. I will always pick up.

Eighteen years ago I had no idea what I was doing. I still don't. But I have never once doubted that you were exactly who you were supposed to be.

I love you endlessly, baby girl. Merry Christmas from 2036.

— Mom, recorded December 24, 2036 · Christmas Eve
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Coach Rivera
Recorded November 8, 2040 · after state championship
🎓 Sealed for graduation
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Emma. I've coached a lot of kids. I mean a lot. And every once in a while one comes along who makes you remember why you do this job.

You were that kid for me. Not because you were the most talented — though you were good, real good — but because of the way you showed up. Every practice. Every early morning. Every time it would've been easier to quit.

Whatever you do next, bring that with you. The world has plenty of talented people. It doesn't have nearly enough people who simply refuse to stop showing up.

You're going to be fine, kid. More than fine. I'd bet on you any day.

— Coach Rivera, recorded November 8, 2040
+ 9 more recordings from family and friends

Four sealed envelopes

For the moments that
matter most.

These weren't sealed for your birthday. They were sealed for something bigger — the moments nobody could predict, but everyone who loved you wanted to be there for.

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The Celebration Message
From Dad · "For the day you make it through something big"
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I knew you could do it. I have always known you could do it.

I don't know what today is. I don't know what you just made it through — whether it's graduation or a job or a heartbreak or something I couldn't have imagined when I recorded this. But I know you. And I know that whatever it was, you did the work. You showed up. You didn't quit when it would've been easier to.

That's yours. That thing you just did — nobody can take that from you. It lives in you now.

I am so proud of you. Not just today — always. But especially today.

Go celebrate. You earned it.

— Dad, sealed for this exact moment
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The Hard Day Message
From Mom · "For when you can't go on"
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Hey. I know what kind of day it is. I'm sorry.

I want to tell you something our family has always believed: we don't give up. We just get up. That's it. That's the whole secret. You don't have to be okay right now. You just have to get up tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that.

You have made it through every hard day you've ever had. One hundred percent of them. That's your track record. Don't forget it.

I love you. Call me if you can. And if you can't — just know I'm with you. I always am.

— Mom, sealed for this exact moment
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The Proud Of You Message
From Grandma Carol · "All the moments you never knew about"
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There are things I never told you I saw. Let me tell you now.

The time you were seven and you gave your lunch to the little girl who forgot hers. You didn't think anyone noticed. I did.

The time you were ten and you stayed behind after the game to help pick up the equipment. Everyone else ran to the car. You stayed.

The time you called me just to ask how I was doing. Not because it was my birthday. Not because your mother told you to. Just because you thought of me.

I have been proud of you in moments you will never know about. More times than I can count. More times than I could ever tell you.

This is me telling you now. You have always been more than enough. You have always been exactly who I hoped you'd be.

— Grandma Carol, sealed with love
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If I'm Gone
From Dad · Private · Released by your Chronicle Keeper
The If I'm Gone envelope is held by Emma's Chronicle Keeper and released when the time comes.

This could be yours

Every person you love
deserves a Chronicle.

Emma's Chronicle took 18 years to fill. The best time to start one was the day they were born. The second best time is right now.

Emma's Chronicle is a demonstration. All names, recordings, and figures are fictional and for illustrative purposes only.