Since this is my very first post on my very first blog I can trust that no one will be reading this tonight. Therefore, I will just rattle on about myself until I have readers who will want to read something amusing. In fact, I will interview myself.
Why collection of memories?
I am a scrapbooker. In fact I love my scrapbook. In it are all the pictures, things, stories, art, and sounds that make up my memories of my family (though, it is admittedly almost all about the kids.) I am so into it that my husband likens my obsession to that of a collector – he says I am a collector of memories. I guess he is right and I am happy to be that.
Why write about scrapbooking?
Because it is such a great way to remember the good days. There are almost no pictures from my childhood so even before I became a mother I knew that I would take a ton of pictures of my kids and remember all the cute little stories for when they asked what they were like as kids. But I see too many magazines/shows/idea books that focus so much on how many different kinds of papers or embellishments you can fit on a page with one picture on it. That is not me at all. And I hope that there are plenty of other mothers who want pages that have lots of pictures, words, and objects on them to really tell the story of the day not just to see how many dollars worth of things they can glue in a 12×12 space.
Why should anyone read this blog?
Because I will show how a scrapbook page can really capture a memory and how a mom on a budget can preserve the lives of three little people (or more) without it looking like it came off the Wal-Mart clearance shelf. And because I am sure that my life is crazy enough for me to come up with some amusing stories to tell for the in between times.
That’s it for today – enjoy.
