Once upon a time I gathered some beautiful supplies and told myself I’d become a real scrap booker, turning our family’s memories into a book of art to treasure forever. I wish I could say volume 3 is underway but actually, I’ve just slipped my pictures into regular albums and have come to a realization that this is about all I intend to commit to when it comes to our pictures. It is still really important to me, however, to keep track of our memories and our photos for our kids and their kids, so I try and date the pictures and put notes on them so we’ll remember some day. Recently I came up with an idea that is nowhere near the work of a scrap book but satisfies my need for some details to go along with our pictures- an album that has room on the sides to write the date and anything else you want to remember. Quick and easy.

I’ve also been trying to print out some pictures to go into the album that I might not normally- pictures that are of the smaller details of our lives but that give more of the feel of the season we were in.

I don’t even make myself use nice handwriting (as you can see:), so there’s no excuse not to keep it up to date and it will be a fun thing for us to look back on as the years go by. I also intend to slip in mementos here and there- ticket stubs, programs, etc. And maybe some day I’ll get to those scrapbooks, but for now I like this new and slightly more creative way of keeping our memories.