31 Days :: My Scrapbooking Evolution

This is the third day in a series: 31 Days of Memory Keeping, check out all the posts here.

Those of you who have been reading my blog for a long time know that I used to be a crazy scrapbooker.

In fact, before I had kids, I would often wake up at 6 am and scrapbook a layout or two before getting ready for work.

I went to scrapbooking conferences.

I taught scrapbooking classes.

I created hundreds of layouts.

I bought more scrapbook paper than I will probably ever use.

Now instead of waking up to scrapbook, I wake up, nurse, pump, shower, make breakfast and nurse again.

I haven’t paper scrapped in about a year.

I miss it.

And I suspect that someday I will make some paper layouts again. Just not in the next few months.

But remember, paper scrapbooking does NOT equal memory keeping.

In the past year I have made at least ten photo books. I have journaled. I have taken thousands of pictures. I have made a Project Life album.

My memory keeping is thriving.

It just looks different.

So don’t think for a second that if you don’t paper scrapbook or if your first child has a bigger scrapbook than your second (or third or fourth) that you aren’t memory keeping!

Perhaps you are just memory keeping differently.

Or perhaps, you need this series to give you a kick in the pants.