Friday was a quiet day, I did some laundry and sorted my way through a project. Far Guy warmed up meals out of the freezer for supper...he had a Impossible Sausage dish and I had Hotdish..the one with potatoes, veggies and hamburger topped with cheese.
It has been a while since I sorted for our Grands...I have three ring binders for each of them filled with "stuff" they might appreciate someday. My Mother kept a few things that I did not keep. I have been shoving things for the Grands in a container and it just needed to be sorted and put in its proper place. Far Guy helped and in no time at all we were done!
I also have photo albums for them all...it is a project I started Up North...I have sorted some more photos to add to that project sometime this Winter.
Do you keep similar things for a bit of family history and hope it is appreciated someday or do you just shred it all?
Far Side
Most of the childhood photos and memories were left with the X when I fled. Some of the photos of the kids did make it back to me when my boys took them from boxes their step mom had put in storage.
ReplyDeleteFamily stuff for my childhood is/was in the possession of my mom and my dad had a few things in his stuff and when he passed, my brother sent me a few things.
I have a mementos drawer that I put stuff in that I can't bear to throw away. There are cards from my mom and various other important people in my life over the years. But without any living children, they only mean something to me.
ReplyDeleteLove this...yes, I keep, probably too much of their memories to pass down...
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Donna
This is such a wonderful thing to do. Your grandkids are all so Blessed in being the recipients of such a special gift. This is something that I do as well....hoping mine will appreciate all that I put into these books.
ReplyDeleteI did. I got all the photos double printed, so extras of them went into their own album. However, not all of them appreciciated it. I also made a box of homemade Christmas ornaments (that I made) for when they get their own place. Again not appreciated nor wanted. As for grandkids, we have two, and we rarely see them unfortunately. You are brave to sort so many albums, but you are also blessed to have so many grands and family.
ReplyDeleteI do keep those things, at least for the ancestors beyond me and my hope is to create a book of sorts along every line of my family tree. Thus far I have completed one and started a second, out of a few dozen lines. I'm not confident at this point that I will accomplish that goal without some concerted effort on my part.
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ReplyDeleteI used to have a photo album for each of my children (I have 5 who are all grown) and for a number of years I would print 5 of each pic so they could each have photos of their siblings included in their book. Then about 5.5 years ago I made a major move to another state and decided it was time to give each of the kids their own book. Now it's up to them to add to the book or not. I kind of miss doing the albums, but I hardly see them now~~they're scatter throughout the US and Alaska, so it's better this way. I also gave them the box of goodies a saved while they were growing up. Hopefully they thought all that was important.
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DeleteI do keep things but I am not organized like you.
ReplyDeleteI have photo albums of my two kids from when they were young. Jill keeps photos albums of here two, my grands. Tom has extensive genealogy records. Yes, we keep stuff.
ReplyDeleteI have a baby book that's filled in and a lot of random pictures and various "keeper" items, but they aren't organized. You are so good at that! What a gift for them! :)
ReplyDeleteI sure wish I had done that. I did have a box during the the growing up years that I put things in for them. As far as family things, when my Mom died unexpectedly so many years ago we never had a chance to get family photos and papers as my Dad had his girlfriend move in two days after Mom's funeral. She cut off all communication. I happened to be driving by one day on my way to my sisters and saw a box by the burn barrell.Curious, I stopped and inside were all of our family photos and a quilt, (the first one I ever made), was waiting to be burned. I grabbed it all and put it in my car. Later my sister and I sorted the papers and photos and gave some to our brothers. My Mom had never used to quilt, saying it was too good to be used! :-) We lost so much of our family history and it makes me so sad.
ReplyDeleteYou are so blessed and so are your grands, to have you make the books for them.
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy
That was no coincidence. You were led there that day to find the box.
DeleteI keep everything. Our history is who we are. If one generation drops the ball, part of our history is lost and cannot be found. Records can be obtained, but the stories die with the teller.
ReplyDeleteI have a box of school memories - it includes items from both my children and my own school days. There is also a box of memories of my mom and dad, that includes a shoebox my aunt (Dad's sis) collected. But I've not done anything specific, it's just a collection.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter has kept lots of things for my grandson, and mentions creating a scrapbook, but as far as I know, she hasn't done anything (yet)
You have a much larger family and that's a lot of work, but I'm sure they will appreciate the binders and albums later.
I made a scrapbook for my daughter , which included photos of her from baby until she left home, as well as all her school report cards and awards. I gave it to her a couple of years ago, and it had her in tears. Well worth doing.
ReplyDeleteI am impressed you got all that done - - - and done quickly! I need to hire you to help me out. I mostly have pictures for the girls and grandsons. I need to get them printed into a book for them.
ReplyDeleteOver the years I have hoarded all these sorts of things, but now I am discovering the family is not really that interested. Oh well .....
ReplyDeleteI keep things.
ReplyDeleteI have made scrapbooks for each of my kids and also each of the grands. As well my kids each have a box with every award they ever got, favourite toys ( that were not too bag) , school work, you name it I probably kept it. I hope they'll want it all some day.
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Sorting out stuff can be exhausting, but satisfying as well
ReplyDeleteProjects! I did scrapbooking through my children (high school). I have done digital scrapbooking of the grands "Grand Moments". I think it is time to start 3-ring binders for some of the random things that may be of interest years down the road. Winter will bring on more sorting here of old pictures and negatives. Stay warm!
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to keep things and pass them on . Sometimes it's a challenge. My son wants the photos but there are many that he will not know.
ReplyDeleteindeed i do....and sorting thru mom's stuff was able to make sure siblings have all pictures she had with history notes etc about who people are and how they are related...it's my job now...
ReplyDeleteYour binders & sorting are impressive!!
ReplyDeleteI am a sentimental fool and kept many of my kids special things. I gave each of my three their box filled with art projects, school and sport achievements etc. Another box with their homemade and Hallmark Christmas ornaments.
So far I am the keeper of our immediate family photos, although I have gifted a few photo books. I would like to share more of them. Haven't saved/done much memento keeping for my grandkids. Just trying to enjoy memorable activities with them. It is a different world they are growing up in...
Sadly, there is no one left after my brothers and I are gone. None of us has any children. I stress about all the keepsakes and old pictures :'-(.
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