I, like you, had set a goal to document my children’s lives in scrapbooks. I am slowly getting rid of all my scrapbooking supplies though -as I realized I was no longer a scrapbooker – but a scrapbooking supplies collector. The 1st two boys have stuff through kindergarten in theirs – but the others may just have the 1st couple years. Near the end, our church even had a scrapbooking day where several ladies got together and helped her layout basic pages to get her caught up – and then she filled in some of the pages with her own journaling, etc.Īnyways – I’m still debating what to do with mine – but I do think I should at least have a handmade babybook for each of them. You can’t duplicate that with digital printing. I can imagine it will be something those 2 treasure as they won’t remember much about their mom because they were so young.

I’ve thought about switching to shutterfly – but after watching a friend of mine die suddenly and early from cancer – and leaving behind 2 young kids – it was neat to see her scrapbooks she lovingly made (and tried to catch up on near the end) by hand – with her own handwriting.

hardly anything – and my youngest (adopted) has nothing. If you had four years and two albums to document, what is the quickest and simplest way that you would approach Mom Endeavors, I’ve had this same dilemma – my older boys baby books are done – the younger kids. create my albums online via Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly.do my best to physically cut and paste simple designs and get my girls’ albums complete.I have four years of photos stored digitally. I don’t have time for cute or elaborate layouts. I figure this project is a good one to figure out. One of my goals this year is to do something with our photos. What would you do?Īs it’s been four years since I last cropped a photo, I’m a little “behind the times” in terms of products that are available and techniques that are being used. However, I don’t want my girls to follow the typical pattern of “the baby doesn’t have a baby book.” So, I’m turning to you for advice and input. Other things have taken precedence over my scrapbooking hobby. The boys, ages 13, 10, 8, and 6, each have at least one album. I was a dreamer.įast forward ten years or so. I drove miles to visit scrapbooking shops and to attend scrapbooking conferences.Īs our family grew, I determined that I would make sure that every milestone of my children’s lives would be carefully documented within the pages of color coordinated scrapbooks.

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