Naptime Blog

How do you preserve precious, once in a lifetime childhood memories?
It seems to me that babies are born then you blink and they’re a year old then you turn around and, boom, they’re two years old! Where does the time go? When I’m watching my kids grow and learn, I think I’ll remember their special moments, but those memories are replaced by new milestones and easily lost in the back of my mind.

To keep memories fresh I try to take tons of photos and videos. I have grand ideas of scrapbooking and making photo books, but I haven’t found the time yet. But, at least I have the digital photos and video clips. They tell such a story. I look back at photos I took mere months ago and can’t believe how much my little babies have grown and matured in such a little amount of time. As a matter of fact, this is how I got into blogging. I wanted to blog to document my boys’ lives for family and friends and, most importantly, for my boys when they are older. Sometimes when I’m blogging on the boys’ private blog, I type things that seem mundane, but months later I thoroughly enjoy reliving those wonderful moments.

Another thing I like to do is make cards and keepsakes with the boys’ hand and footprints. There’s nothing more pleasing to a parent’s heart than to open a gift made with love by their young child. My kiddos are still too young to take the initiative, but I enjoy helping them make Christmas cookie plates, ornaments, cards, etc. with sand, rocks and, of course, their sweet little hands and feet. The photo above is of my husband’s birthday card the boys and I made last year. The boys crawled around outside and found the leaves and the sand is from their sandbox.  It cost us close to nothing but will be cherished long after the store bought one is forgotten. It may not be pretty and it may have greasy, grubby fingerprints on it, but it’s absolutely perfect to my husband and me.

How do you stop time long enough to document your children’s lives?

Shannon
Potamus Prefers
http://www.potamusprefers.com/

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