This week I was really glad to have the large collection of scrapbooks I have. DD #2 is in 6th grade now and for health class she has to do a project called "My How I've Grown." In it, she's supposed to have a picture from when she's a baby and then at 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old plus at present. In addition, Mom or Dad is supposed to write down some memories about the student at those ages. OK, I gotta tell you, after spending 10 years in a state of sleep deprivation from being pregnant and mothering babies and toddlers that I can see I've forgotten a lot. But thankfully I recorded some stuff in the scrapbooks to fill in the gaps in my memory.
All this takes some of the sting out of the guilt I feel that the scrapbooks are not "equal" for all the kids. Guess what? There are a lot more pictures of our oldest daughter than there are of the little ones. Sometimes I wonder if they will resent that later on. Some years I took fewer pictures and made fewer pages because of business or tiredness or depression. I could never keep up the pace I started with the older kids and I already have a storage problem with what we do have! So yeah, it's unequal. I should get over feeling bad about that because plenty of people don't have ANY scrapbook pages so at least my kids have something. That's what I learned while doing this health project. Now I'll just have to remember it!
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Christine! I am SO PROUD OF YOU!! Recently I saw some of my paper scrapped pages...in one of my Dad's albums, and they were actually part of a Spanish class assignment, so ALL of the documentation is in Spanish and the photos are from when Cam was 18 months old...he's 13 now, and I haven't practiced Spanish since...that class? I am glad Dad has the pages, I can scan them later :D I have way fewer pages of kids from back when I paper scrapped, but I don't feel badly for it and neither should you! Having the memories at all is wonderful, having any pages is great, but being WONDER MOM is the most important (i. e. any mom who takes care of her house, kids, job, etc...and is still sane enough to do anything above and beyond like school snacks, scrapbook pages...)
~aj
My scrapbooks have saved me more than once on assignments like that one. I fully admit that my memory isn't what it used to be, and with 5 kids I just can't keep straight who did what when any more LOL Our youngest probably has the most pages done about her as I was well into digital scrapping by the time she came along 4 years ago. The kids' books aren't all 'equal' in size, but they don't care and I doubt your girls mind all that much either. ;)
i know that with my 2nd, there are lots less pics taken and scrapped. I guess seeing all those wonderful moments just wasnt as exciting as it was the first time. I only have the two kids but oh, I have forgotten most everything except the conditions of the birth... how odd.
Be glad you have what you have for them. I have no baby pics at all since our stuff was stolen out of a storage unit and its weird to not have those things to view.
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