Preserving Memories
This summer has gone by in a flash. Only a short time ago we were waiting for the warmer weather to come with the closing of the schools so that we could spend more time in the great outdoors. While the summer isn't completely gone, the days are growing noticeably shorter, the mornings seem a little cooler, and school is already back in session.
How does it go so quickly? Last year my youngest son was only learning to crawl, now he has mastered the steps to the slide on the playground. Today my youngest daughter turned 3 years old, and a month ago my two sons Kaleb and Asa had their birthdays graduating them to 9 and 5 years old respectively. I want to shout at them to slow down, to quit aging so fast.
One of the things that I like to do to take hold of the moments is to write them down in memory books and paste the pictures into scrapbooks. Scrapbooking is a fun, beautiful and personal way to capture special moments and memories so that they can be relived over and over again. When Kaira, my oldest daughter was young, I made and somewhat completed a scrapbook for her. It is the most embellished of the scrapbooks that I have made. Kaleb has one that is partially completed, and Kaden has one that is only just started. We have six children now and I knew that I would never keep up with traditional scrapbooking. I often spent too long on each of the pages trying to make them perfect and beautiful.
After Kaden was born, I was thinking on this problem. I was making photo products to sell on eBay at the time and the company that was producing the products for me had just come out with photo books that could be assembled and completed online. I loved the idea and completed Kaden's photo book in two evenings of work. Since then I have ordered a photo book for every child to make sure that if something happened to me, they would have at least some moments of their early years documented.
To this date, I had only ordered photo books for the purpose of making them into baby books. I had not made any others as I had been trying to keep up with all of the new babies. This year I found myself caught up with all of the baby books (which is so fabulous!) that I thought how nice it would be to make a book about a special event (other than the birth of a baby). We have had so many great events this year that I had to choose which one I wanted to make a book of. After Kaleb and Asa's Pirate Party last month and with all of the great photos of it that people passed on to me I knew that had to be it. So that is what I made and below you'll find a convenient link to the finished project. I love using Shuttefly as they frequently offer free codes for the photo books that are valued at up to $25.00. I paid only $13.99 for this book after shipping. I added a few extra pages to it and that did bump the price up a little, but it was still very reasonable. If you have a busy life and schedule but still want to record those special memories, the online photo books are a great solution.
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