There is NO way I can possibly select a
WINNER from these amazing comments.
Thank you all so much for opening your
hearts in response to Dawn's post and question.
I have used a Random Number Generator
to grant comment
#89 a FREE seat in the 2010 session of Library of Memories that
begins Thursday, February 4th.
Congratulations Norma-ann!
My greater purpose for scrapbooking would be
to soothe my own panic! My baby is turning 1 in 10 days. My bigger babies are 7
and 5. Everyone is growing so fast! Time is going way too fast. I want...no...I
need to get some of the little moments scrapped so I can have them, to remember
them, when things are no longer the same. I love my girls so much. I really
just want to remember...every. little. thing.
Posted January 13, 5:57
pm
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encouragement where people can reconnect to their individual purposes and find
a kinder, gentler approach to the organizational and creative processes of
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you need to move forward in what is a very exciting time to live.
The
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myself to teach you how to embrace technology and all the excess that has come
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Here are just a FEW of my favorite
comments. If you have a minute, read and enjoy!
Comment from Sara:
This is tough...originally, I thought
the purpose of scrapbooking was demonstrating what we did in our life, in the
order we did it. I still feel the pull to explain what we were doing and when,
but now, I think the greater purpose is to explain to my kids who my husband
and I were before kids, who we are now because of having kids and what our
family cherishes. I want to capture my kids doing the things that matter to
them, not just opening gifts or celebrating holidays (things which yes we do,
and yes, are fun, but are not "who we are"). I guess I look at it
more of an exercise in family identity so someday, we can all look through our
scrapbooks and remember what we were like, way back when.
Comment from Aggie:
Ever since I can remember, I have
always been at odds and ends with my Mom. It wasn't just because it was a
"teenager" thing -- maybe we were so alike yet so different that as a
kid, I tended to repel her. Only when I became a mom myself, and communication
lines opened, did I understand myself, and my mom. And how much did I learn from
hearing her stories. It is as if we have parallel lives. If only things were
different when I was young. Now that I have a daughter, who I know is so like
me in a way, my heart goes out to her in a way that I can foresee (or am I
scared?) that in the future, I will just be a Mom to her and not my friend.
Scrapbooking is in a way my solution for that. By recording everything about
me, my life, OUR LIVES, her life before she can even remember, I am putting
stories in my pages. She will be able to look at them in the future and connect
reasons behind the stories. That's my higher purpose why I take time to
document the everyday, why I document M-E. Because someday down the road, once
my kids go through that stage and would want to stop listening, I won't talk -
but my albums will :)
Comment from Aimee:
As a child, I loved the Little House
books and Anne Frank. As I always loved reading about other people's lives. I
loved skipping to the middle of the book to see the pictures that went with the
stories-it made everything more real. Memoirs are still my favorite type of
book. As a college student, I was a history major. I loved imagining how people
lived, what they were thinking and feeling through different historical events.
Scrapbooking incorporates all those things for me. It is our memoir, our
pictures, our history book.
Comment from Betsy:
One day I was at a used book sale. I
was suppose to be selling but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to cruise to
find a title or two. I had just rounded the 2nd corner when I spotted it. It
was THE book. I couldn't believe it. The book was called "The 50
states" and I had won it in 2nd grade. Oh I loved that book (I never
really won anything so it was special on that account) but the book was cool.
Neat snippets of information, cool pictures, stories about states, there were
even these "transparencies" that overlaid the photos. OH I was taken
back looking at page after page, reliving the reports I did with that book,
reliving the games my sister and I played with the maps, reliving the time
spent reading the book. I was instantly a child again. I was overwhelmed with
the emotions this book brought out in me, I finally paid for my purchase.
Walking away I realized why this book was so special to me. There was power in
it. It had everything my scrapbooks did, cool pictures, snippets of
information, neat stories (and even an embellishment or two (transparencies
anyone?) The book transported me to a place of my childhood, a place of the
past that I wanted to remember. When people ask me why I scrapbook, I share
this story with them that there is an amazing power in my books. Where else can
you bring memories back to life?. In a moment I can relive a child's first
steps, or once again see Grandma's smile. I can enjoy the joy of a favorite toy
or the sorrow of loved one's passing. And being a scrapbooker I have the power
to create those books for those I love.
See? Wow.
Thanks for sharing with us.
