Check out the sidebar on the right. I have added a new category. I am once again doing the December Daily album that Ali Edwards started doing a few years ago. This year it is all digital. Since I can't get into my studio, I want to make sure I still did the album. After the 31 days in December are over, I will have an 8x8 book printed.
In the course of unpacking all of these boxes, I have run across so many old photos and albums. I LOVE seeing those photos. My boys love it too. This served as an important reminder to me and now I will preach to you.
Get out there and take pictures and throw them into albums! You don't have to make beautiful scrapbook pages. Get archival quality albums that hold 4x6 photos and just put the photos in the pockets. Those pictures become treasures and not in the most obvious way. You may not really want to remember Aunt Polly's church parties, for example, but the wonderful part is seeing that picture of Aunt Polly and realizing how much you daughter resembles her. You notice your children in the photo and remember them at that age. Memories will come flooding back to you.
Try to write a little about yourself and your family. People used to warn me that I would forget. I didn't believe them, but it is true! I found a journal I kept for Luke when he was a baby. I only wrote a couple of pages every 6 or 8 months, but they told me so much. I now know exactly when he first walked, his favorite foods and words that he said. This stuff is priceless!
Alright, I am off of my soap box now. Check back often for updates to my December Daily album.
Hooray! I'm doing the December Daily album too, but it is enough work for me to make the base pages, take photos, edit photos, print photos, put them in the album, and journal... I cannot bring myself to take photos of the finished pages, edit the photos, upload them to the blog, and write descriptions. There is yet another benefit of digital, just put it on the blog!
Posted by: Cameron | December 03, 2009 at 11:47 AM