We came. We laughed. We ate. And we scrapbooked on paper and digitally / journaled / worked on baby books…
We had such a fun get-together to kick off 2012. The stated meeting description was “Scrapbooking”, but — while we were all productive — it was fun to look around the table and see everyone taking a different approach to preserving memories.
Personally, I’m all over the place (could that be why I’m perpetually behind???). I have traditional photo albums, I make photo books using an online site, I scrapbook, and I have baby books for each of my girls (which I may or may not have actually started).
At times I feel a little guilty that I’m not ordering double copies of photo books, or making each girl a scrapbook…but I just can’t add anything else to my “preserving memories” plate. I rationalize that, when the girls are older, one can have the photo books, one can have the scrapbooks (or however they divide things up). And (if I ever get them started), they’ll at least both have baby books.
How do you manage your photos and mementos? Do you have separate books for each child? Does that become more important as children get older, as they may be involved in different activities?
Thanks for a fun — and productive — night! Looking forward to getting our kiddos together in February, in celebration of Valentine’s Day!
Trying to figure out how to preserve these great memories is so hard! Right now we just make an annual photo book online and get one printed. I figure my kids can always get all the pictures they want (since they are all digital) and they can come visit me anytime they want and look through the albums. It will be a good reason to make them come visit their parents when they are older!
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