Tara
out my own personal struggles with documenting my families life on a personal blog I have, called The Dedman 5.
Here's my fACEBOOK post:
Tara went on to write a helpful post for all of you wanting to make sure you preserve your family history:
From Tara --
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} led me to comment about how I also use some of those things - blog, FB, baby books - to document our family, but I also do an annual photobook. Why haven't I posted about this before? Because I am so dumb. I am very dumb. For real. (Ten thousand bonus points to the person who names that tune in the comments.... and my sister can't play.)
So, here it is, an overdue discussion of how I document our lives. In Real Life. You know, as opposed to clicking through jpegs. Which we do sometimes. But, hey, this post is about hard copies. :)
Some tips, and then a few more photos of my books.
- These are AWESOME gifts for my kids' grandparents. They look forward to receiving the books.... they were worried this year because I sent the books just *after* Christmas instead of right at Christmastime as usual. [And actually, I think I will keep doing that. I liked having our Christmas Day shots in there.] I always order 3 books... one for my parents, one for Dave's parents and one for us. I will have to order more when we bring home baby #3.... that way when all the kids are grown, there will enough copies in existence that everyone can have one.
- I use Snapfish, but Birmingham Bargain Mom suggested a few others as well.... Shutterfly, Mpix, Winkflash, and Walgreens.
- Don't order the fabric covered books. Get the leather, or leather-ish option. I have mostly fabric covered books and they do not hold up as well as the leather. (Duh.) They have various marks on the covers that can't be rubbed off.
- If you can, stick with ordering the same style and size every year. They will look clean and neat on the shelf.
GO H