I started my first scrapbook when I was 13.
It’s a Pioneer scrapbook, which I still buy today. The pages are yellowed, half the stuff is ripped out (a casualty of the fickle and tumultuous teenage years) and its probably not acid free.
But flipping through the aged pages, I relive some incredibly meaningful memories and defining moments in my life…(some of which I had forgotten):
the baptism when I was 10
the freehand drawings
kindergarten graduation
ribbons and awards
the homerun in high school softball
first date tickets
and on and on and on.
Someday my kids will relive the same memories from their lives. And even if my handwriting isn’t perfect or my photos aren’t always trimmed squarely, the memories will be perfect for them.
And that is why I scrapbook.
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