It happens before you know it. A year or two passes you by and then, you bring out the scrapbooks. You peruse through the 2,000 photo archives you have and try to figure out what your child was like 2 years ago, what they were doing, so that you can accurately portray them in their rock, PAPER, scissors SCRAPBOOKS.
In the era of technology, text messages, IM's, emails and digital photography, we have an insane amount of memories on our, well Memory Storage, on our computer. What we need to spend a little more time doing is creating memories and then hard copy documenting them.
My kids are constantly asking to go through photo albums or scrapbooks and look at their growth. I cannot very well sit them down at the computer and say, ok, start here at shutterfly.com, then go over to flickr, then on to the hard drive and look at photos of yourself there...with no story, no input or journaling to accompany them.
It is a lost story if the journaling is absent. Just a lonely photograph.
I'm merely suggesting that we take a moment to, at the very least, print photos out and put them into a photo album that has a "notes" section in the margin. After all, in 2 years, I won't remember where I have those 2,000 photos and then....the memories, their childhood will be lost....in cyberspace.
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