Another mom asked me the other day why I spend my free time scrapping my family's photos and not doing other things 'for myself''. I kind of chuckled because I never thought of scrapping as not doing something 'for myself''. I love to be creative so this is a fun way for me to have me time. But I really didn't have a great answer for her. So, it got me thinking...why do I scrap? Selfishly, I do use my scrap time as me time, but I knew there were so many other reasons. Keeping memory of my kids childhoods that seem to be happening all too fast, documenting my family's story, doing something with all the digital pictures I have sitting on my computers, but I still wondered, what was my real motivation. I thought about it and realized that the death of my grandmother had made a huge impact on me and my decision to do something with all of our family photos. These days kids seem to know less and less about their families. Families no longer stay in the same geographical areas, they are spread across the globe. I want my kids to know about our family, both past and present. When my grandma died, she left behind boxes and boxes of photos. Photos that to this day still remain in boxes and when looked at, hold these mysteries of who is in the photo, where they were taken. The stories behind all of the pictures were lost when she died. I took the time to go through many of the boxes, take the pictures out and have them scanned, but what next? I try and scrap these pictures, but it's hard as I have no idea the story behind them. So, this is why I scrap. One day I want my family to know what these picture were about, where they were taken, who is in them. So I scrap every day events, document traditions, make keepsakes out of my kids' schoolwork - so that I have left behind something other than a box full of mysterious pictures. So with that, I thank you Grandma for motivating me to Scrap and save the special moments in my family!
My grandma passed before we could take a photo with all 4 generations, but my other grandma is very much alive and so I made sure to document this special picture of 4 generations of women in our family.
