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Mothers are Historians!

December 21, 2010

As we approach the end of 2010 it is good to be reflective of the year, remembering the good and bad times, and see how we grew from them. We can be thankful for the lives that are no longer with with us (Jeff lost an uncle this year).

We are on a school break for a couple of weeks…who can concentrate with so much excitement (Christmas) going on? ;o)

One of my goals this next week is to get ALL of my photos that are on both of my computers and put them on a flash drive AND a CD. I always need a back up of my back up. I also want to make a copy for each of the kids to take with them when they marry.

A couple of years I have gotten the year’s pictures burned onto a DVD as a slide show with music and subtitles, I’m hoping to find time to do that again. Windows Movie Maker is pretty simple to use, I also use Sony Vegas.

As easy as burning pictures to CDs and flash drives is, there is still something about a scrapbook! I have about 6 years worth of blogging and pictures online, which has taken place of most of my hand written journaling. So this next year I want to set aside a few hours a week and sloooowly, get my writings and pictures moved to SeeHere.com (I like their sale prices the best!). If I can get it all moved there, laid out and ready to print into a book I can save it until they run a big sale.

I have old fashion, cut and glue scrapbooks for my kids up until about 5-6 years ago. I want all my kids to have their own set of memory books to take with them when they get married.

As a mother I feel that is it part of my duty that I keep a good history of our family. As I get older and memories fade, and when the rough times hit I want to be able to remember God’s faithfulness…and I want my kids to remember!

This is actually Olivia taking pictures, it helps that both of my girls are always snapping pictures…just like their momma!

At the very least, you can buy a cheap digital camera, or borrow one and have the pictures put on a disc. You’ll never regret doing it, but you might regret not doing it!