Speaking Of Crafts

I may be telling my age,  but when my boys were born,  mothers as a rule didn’t consider making a scrapbook,  at least in the sense of the ones made today.   We bought what was called simply a ‘baby book.’  The contents were pretty much pre-written,  and we (mothers) just filled in the spaces with our answers or remarks and added a photo or two.

There was a space to paste a photo of the baby at birth and blank lines to fill in the date and time of birth,  weight and length of the baby at birth, plus various other pertinent information.   Of course,  we always included a footprint and a lock of hair.    If I remember correctly,  a record of shots and immunizations was listed in this book along with various happenings over the first few years of life.

It is fun to go back and browse through our children’s baby books and although we have a number of photos scattered around the house which were taken throughout the years,  how nice it would be to have it all arranged in an orderly scrapbook.   (Now that sounds like a great project, but at this stage in life,  it’s one that I probably won’t get to.)