The kids' baby books:
fill in the blank pages & about as close as I'm getting right now to scrapbooking!
Confession:
I am not a scrapbooker.
I've tried.
I made one my senior year of high school.
It is currently in a box up high in my closet.
A friend helped guide me to the products I need and I did make one for Will's first year:
Correction:
I made 4 for his first year.
I had a lot of stuff saved & pictures and it took 4 12x12 albums!
They currently reside up high in the linen/toy closet in my hall.
I can't even close one of them but I refused to make 5!
I have no hope of getting 1 done for Ellie at this point.
Currently, I'm throwing cards I want to save, random news articles about my kids, a magazine picture that recently came out with Ellie in it, etc into this box:
After the 4 album per year scrapbooking event, I decided to just print out pictures and put them in an album.
This worked okay... until Ellie was born & I just don't have the time.
So here's random photos and stuff saved in a tub from 2010.
(Goodness, this is embarrassing!)
Before kids, I did pretty good about putting pictures in albums and labeling the photos:
now they are in cabinets and we never look at them.
But I have them and they are done.
I just don't love scrapbooking. It's not my thing. I don't have a lot of free time and when I do, I don't want to spend it pulling out all the fun scrapbooking stuff and setting it up and then cleaning it up...
I do love pictures and I want a hard copy of them.
But I'm not good about printing them out and putting them in albums... and if I do that, what am I supposed to do with the random cards/theater tickets/newspaper articles featuring my kids that I want to save???
Help!
I want to be more organized and I want a quick and easy way to document our family history!
What can I do?
Can I just get a tub per year like I'm doing so far this year & toss cards/etc in it and call it done?
Also, one of my huge goals is to get my blog printed out but I haven't figured out which site is best and easiest to use. Any ideas? I want very simple/user friendly!!!
Help! Any suggestions?
How do you organize your photos if you don't scrap book?
How do you organize the extra stuff you want to save?
I really want 2012 to be the year I get caught up and get organized and find a system that will work for us without eating up what little free time I have or taking over my dining room table.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
