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Here is a confession. There is something which keeps me awake at night. We have failed to make a record of our children's lives. No albums. Not. A. Single. Page. We have sporadic pictures, every report card, and lots of other oversized papers. And each of these is organized in our inimitable way: stuffed into various unlabeled boxes.
A few years ago we switched to a digital camera. So we now have LOTS of pix, but they are all on disk. I live in fear of school projects where the kids are challenged to bring in significant pictures. What that means in our house is hours moaning and fretting and then calling Checkered a thousand times to -
A. tell us where the disks are;
B. find out how to put a disk in the computer;
C. and ask him, since I am sooooo very busy with this project, to hurry home to help, but first stop and pick up dinner for us.
How did we ever get into this mess? Long before I ever married, I was once required to put together an album to document a study trip to Spain. That was the last of my archiving activities.
One of the reasons I married Checkered (apart from the fact that I thought he was magnificent in every way) was that he had PHOTO ALBUMS documenting his cars, his boats, his friends, and his trips. Our future children would have albums!!
It would seem that neither of us mentioned putting albums together in the wedding vows.
After countless sleepless nights wondering how our kids would know their early years ever happened, I asked Checkered to buy albums for me for Christmas. Of course, I knew he would surprise me and fill them, too. It took me a while on Christmas morning to figure out who all the strangers were on the album covers - and why the original cellophane was still on the albums.
Fast forward lots of years and our beautiful daughter, Junior, started to drop subtle and then not-so-subtle hints that we needed some albums with actual pictures of our own family. I started biting my nails, eating a million calories a day, smoking and swearing, but the guilt never went away and the albums never got filled.
Then this summer Junior saw a memory book her aunt had made to celebrate her beautiful cousin's high school graduation. She begged, pleaded, and cajoled me to actually put pictures into albums. Then Junior proved again that she is an amazing girl. She joined a scrapbooking club at the library and has put together her first scrapbook. It is the first completed album in this family. She is now accepting bribes to put together scrapbooks for her brothers.
And that is just one more reason why we believe every family should be so blessed to have a daughter like Junior.
