The closest I came to scrapbooking was my senior book in high school. I genuinely put a lot of time and effort into it. And, then in college, I took lots and lots of pictures and put them into albums. However, as good as I was at putting these together, I NEVER go back and look at them. I have this weird thing about drudging up the past. There are too many emotions and memories tied to things and I never seem to be in the mood to walk down memory lane. I tend to live in the present.
Plus, since we got our first digital camera 5 years ago, we just upload pictures onto our computer and put them on websites. We never take the time to print them out. In fact, I am so anti-picture taking lately, that whenever we go on our vacations or cruises I usually have Steve take the majority of the pics. I just want to enjoy my time without the pressure to record moments. Plus, I mean, what are the proper moments to record? Exactly.
This has ALL changed with having a baby. We have received a plethora of frames, photo albums and a beautiful baby book. Suddenly I feel this responsibility. About recording Brett's life. And, it is STRESSING ME OUT!!!!! I have been putting off and putting off and putting off putting all of these things together. I meant to get this all done before I started my new job. Um, not so much. So, this past week (when I wasn't working - BTW, this was my first week, and I am overall pleased with my decision to take this part time job. It's exactly what I was looking for), I started this scary process. I have actually taken tons of pics of Brett to upload to myspace and this blog, so I have a lot to choose from. So I started the process of weeding out the pics I REALLY like and editing them, some black and white, some sepia (see the new pic with the title of my blog - that's one that went into a frame that I took while on vacation), and uploaded them all to walgreens.com. This was actually a cinch. I uploaded them and they were ready in an hour. So easy!
And then I put in the hours. And I mean HOURS working on these photos and photo albums and his baby book. I finally have gotten to a pretty comfortable place. I can't record any more in his book until next month or until he rolls over or something. And the albums and frames are as full as I can make them at this point in time. Whew! I hope that Brett appreciates this later! I actually am pretty happy with myself now. I think the effort has been worth it, and I am guessing that I will probably walk down memory lane with his stuff more than I ever will with mine...
To end the blog, here are some photos I put together for this project...
5 comments:
Awwww those pictures are adorable! I think my favorite is the first one, but they are so cute! Congrats on getting his pictures into an album - it doesn't seem like it should be but I agree that it is a stressful thing!
You're in a better place than me! I hardly have anything in Evan's baby book! That's one of my goals for the summer.
Bryn was 2 when Shay was born, and my big goal (which I did accomplish) was to have her 1st year of life baby book done before Shay came alone. Shay is now 7 months old, and I have yet to take her baby book out of the package it came in. Seriously, it's a vicious cycle.
Chris is 2 1/2, and with the exception of his birth story, and prenatal stuff, his baby book is incomplete. Some pictures in, but not many, I'd say it's half done. I feel quite accomplished that I keep up on his blog. In fact that's my "journal", I'll have to cross reference eventually to complete. Though, now you motivate me.
You're supposed to write in the baby books?? LOL. I did do a scrapbook for about the first 5 months. I have all the pictures but haven't put them in the book yet...wow! Maybe I could use a Saturday night off and do it then! LOL yeah not sure when that will happen either. Good luck. once you master it I'll send Drexel's stuff your way.
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