Capture Your Summer Memories
Welcome Back to Pearls For Life; Family Yoga!!
I hope you had a beautiful summer filled with wonderful family moments, beach trips, road trips, days at home relaxing, reading and arts and crafts with the kids.
I know for stay-at-home parents, the summer can often feel like you’re refereeing a sporting match, keeping bickering kids apart and giving them enough to do to maintain the semblance of sanity around the house. It’s exhausting, but now that summer is winding down, I hope you can sit back and reflect upon a couple months well spent.
While you can’t hold onto summer, you can capture the memories.
Photo Books Make it Easy
Take time as the kids head back to school to create a photo album of your summer adventures. While you may not have the time, nor the creativity to put a scrapbook together by hand, visit a site like Snapfish.com to quickly upload your summer photos – they even give you the option of an automatic placement of photos, so you don’t have to labor over them.
It’s In The Genes
This August my grandma turned 92 and while her mind can still bring up years of memories, she has left a legacy for us. When I go into my grandpa’s study, the bookshelves are filled with photo albums – the old school kind – with the sticky pages and cellophane-type overlay. Each binder has the name and year of the country visited. It’s not an exaggeration to say there are 20-30 of them stuffing the shelves.
While as a kid I dreaded looking through page after page of photos, meal receipts, bus passes, airline boarding passes and endless scraps of paper with notes, someday it will mean a tremendous amount to me when I can no longer listen to her stories.
My father is continuing the tradition, although through the conveniences of the digital age. After every family trip or major event, he uploads his pictures and creates an album and purchases copies for all of us.
When scrapbooking first came on the scene, I looked forward to every evening after the babies fell asleep to let my creative side flow and fill pages with accounts of their first steps, birthdays, time with grandparents and anything I could snap a picture of.
I guess it’s in our gene pool.
Capture the Memories
No, I don’t look at the albums every day, but from time to time my kids will get them out and laugh and point at the pics and I’m exceedingly grateful that I took the time to capture those otherwise lost moments.
Take the time, even if you just shove everything in a shoe box labeled Summer 2014 – it’s there, your memories encapsulated, safe and ready to be enjoyed later.
photo curtesy of http://www.dvdyourmemories.com/blog/best-way-to-scan-scrapbooks-to-dvd/
