What a wonderful video

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I have just watched this video from scrapbook lifestyle by Pattie duffner called 'love notes to your kids' talking about how important it is to put journalling on every page. it nearly bought tears to my eyes - I was so moved by it and I totally agree with what she says - this is what scrap booking is all about.

I must say I find it easier to do this with recent photos and recent memories as they are still fresh, but it has been hard doing Jessica's album as I cannot remember everything that happened up to 18 years ago or what the children thought or what i thought. I wish I had known about scrapbooking then- my pages would be so much more memorable and thank goodness I have discovered it now so that I can record all these special times..

I had been waiting until the end of the year to do Liam's 'a year in the life of album' - but really I should start now because I really can't remember how we felt then. I have the things he did in the diary I kept for the album, but that does not tell me what he ate or wore or said. I need to make a start on this album ASAP.

Here is a quote by Anna Quindlen in Ali Edwards new book which really sums up how I feel:-

"...but the biggest mistake I made is the one most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is perfectly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only by photographs. There is one picture of the 3 of them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate and what we talked about and how they sounded and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the little things a little more and getting it done a little less."