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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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:shrug I am trying to go back and make digital books of my big kids..from 2001 thru 2006ish...but :blushI get weepy looking at how little they were then. :sulk
Oh I feel like a basket case? :cry Anyone else attempt this?
 
Yes I do! I had some for you on Monday and more on Monday when Erynn's road trip photos magically synced to my phone and I had some for Trista on Tuesday! And I have them all the time when I compare how much my "babies" have grown!
 
sushimommy said:
Yes I do! I had some for you on Monday and more on Monday when Erynn's road trip photos magically synced to my phone and I had some for Trista on Tuesday! And I have them all the time when I compare how much my "babies" have grown!
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you are one tenderhearted lady, I am honored to call you friend, that was so sweet!
 
It is probably no secret around here that I am a crier. Happy tears included! I think as a mom those bittersweet tears of reflection are pretty common for me, especially when looking through our albums. My kids tease me because I always cry on their birthdays. It's that combination of sadness at how fast they are growing and happiness at what great people they are becoming. It must be why scrapbooking has always appealed to me. It dials into all of those feelings. :)
 
I'm not trying to retroscrap at all, but yes. I always get weepy. Always. Especially since his early years were the years I had NO idea they were going to be my only baby years, so I get weepy about not taking everything in back then.
 
I cry all of the time, happy, sad, angry,...it doesn't matter..lol. I'm a serious basketcase.
 
Yep! That's me......and I just don't feel that old! #mybabyturns29thisyear #aughhhhhh
 
I cry at those silly FB videos... always been a sensitive person. And yes I do tear up occasionally when scrapping photos of mine when they were little. I don't scrap those very often.

One thing I always cry about it talking about my son becoming an Eagle Scout... I can't say it, see the photos, any of that without my eyes filling up with tears.
 
I don't get weepy usually with photos of the kids but will spend hours just staring at old ones and remembering those times. I do get weepy about pics of family members who are no longer here. They are sad tears but they are also joyful of the memories they evoke.
 
A little while back we were on the subway. My 6yr old made this look that took me right back to holding my newborn & watching him fall asleep in a milk coma. I started crying right there on the train. Tears of love & gratitude for being a mom. They grow up so fast.
 
yesterday my daughter was bored, and was going through some traditional (not digital) PL books. then, i pulled out a huge stack of old paper scrapbook pages i had, that never made it into albums bc they weren't really organized. so she put them into albums for me.

then this morning ... i caught her going through all the albums. these are old photos ... baby through about 5 years. and yes ... seeing my babies & reading the journaling got me. and really, just seeing her so into looking at the pages and really reading the journaling got me.

sigh.

this is what it is all about. good stuff. happy tears! ;)
 
When my six year old GD moved out with her Mom, I turned to scrapping her first 6 years as my method of grieving. Many tears were shed.
 
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