Day 28: Breathe, Seek, Play......Scrapbooking

Oh dear me, I have been under the siege of photos and getting them into albums that I have an array of older photographs and reprints which needed to be showcased in such a way that a mere photo album could not....so another Scrapbook was born.  I haven't made a scrabook since my wedding.  And it was a very nontraditional scrapbook by today's scrapbookers point of view....it was a typical young girl scrapbook with magazine cutouts and some fancy scissor cuts..but it my prewedding/wedding scrapbook and it is as big as my wedding album. I have to say how much I enjoyed making it and cutting out and planning all the pages, and gluing mementos throughout.  Today's scrapbook was a premade one, wow was it easy....just add your pictures and write and viola, it is a mini masterpiece.  I am working on a scrapbook of my father's family.  I have a array of photos from a CD my sister and I made of pictures when my grandmother passed.  There are so many relatives, aged photos restored, stories that they carried, and now they have a special album that will be passed along for generations to come.  At one point the boys came in and Elliott say a picture and he said "I know who this is, this is PawPaw" and I told him no, that is my grandfather, we called him "Buster".  He said "Wow, they really look the same". I told him yes they do, and how his PawPaw looked like his grandfather and showed him a picture (but it was a younger version, not one that Elliott remembers of his PawPaw).  Cooper came in and enjoyed seeing the school pictures of his PawPaw wearing a tie and one of him wearing a bow tie. I affixed each picture, remembering and honoring each relative...the memories that each new picture brought.  Soon I will add the details with the pictures, words to captivate and let my children know who their ancestors are, and some memories I hope to pass along.  It's been over 17 years since I've made a scrapbook, and I can't tell you how much joy making this one has been.  I have three more (as I have tons of photos that one cannot hold them all).  Luckily, I grabbed three of them on sale at Ross with some fancy scrapbook paper...and I had to purchase some photo corners from ACE Moore.  I still have one yet to do for my boys (and their baby books still to complete) YIKES, they are almost ten...don't judge, I had good intentions and lack of time to take on the task.  This may all change as I am motivated more than ever to get my photo's in albums and how much fun I've found in making this latest scrapbook.  My pictures, albums and scrapbooks are the most treasured material things I own.  This is my job, this is my mission...a job that brings me pure joy!  Harold B. Lee once said "The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.”  I am so blessed that I am working within the walls of my home, and I pray everyday that one day my children will look back, remember and see a story of trials, triumphs, sorrows, happiness, seeing things in black and what and seeing things full of color as they turn the pages and create their own scrapbook.  May they see a story of hope, one that inspires, one that is fully of love....a collection of memories, a life lived out loud, enjoyed in the moment, captured forever...pressed not only on the pages...but in my heart.