My cousin Ana Karen sent me this video she filmed when her family came over a few weeks ago. Usually, smartphone videos seem different from the home videos of my childhood –– back when all the moms had a big videocamera glued to their right eye on special occasions –– but this one feels like the big VHS tapes of my cousins and me that we would re-watch around the holidays.

I can imagine returning to watch this video, over and over again, with my sobris Nolito and Dahlia to remember what this time in our life was like. It’s an instant treasure. ¡Mil gracias, AK!