The Book of Me - Don't Leave Yourself Out of Your Family Storybooks

A strange phenomenon occurs in most scrapbooking households. Step inside and look around and you will find tons of family storybooks, with beautiful pictures and artistic layouts documenting every precious moment from birth through infancy to preschool and kindergarten, elementary and middle and high school and beyond.If the family homeschools, there may be even more scrapbook documentation of what each child did each year in school.Often in these scrapbooking families, children leave home for college with boxes of their childhood memories preserved lovingly in each family scrapbook album.But there's a missing element in those books. Look closely. Where's mom?The Case of the Missing MotherIn most of these scrapbooking families, the mother is the one who takes all those adorable pictures. She is the one to whom it is most important to capture those memories, so she insists on bringing the camera, she makes everyone hold still while she snaps another beautiful shot and she spen
d the hours telling the story of another special memory or another wonderful family year.The Book of MeIn The Book of Me, Angie Pederson points out that the mother is the missing piece of the puzzle. I read this book when my son was still an infant and I really was the mother taking picture after picture but not wanting to be in any of them, myself.I did not believe that I was at all photogenic and I certainly did not care if my face showed up in our books of memories. But in her book, and in other books I read, she points out that if you are the mother taking the pictures, you are creating a legacy to leave to your children.You better be part of it!Here's the PointYou are part of every special memory you are so carefully documenting for them. And when they look back on all those special times together, they are going to want to see you, too, as they remember you. When they look at those pictures of you, they are not going to pay attention to the nose that is too big or the
ten extra pounds or the funny thing your hair does when the wind is blowing.They are going to see "Mom" and feel the love they have always had for you! While scrapbooking your favorite family memories, make sure you don't leave yourself, because that will deny them that experience.Not only does this book make that point very persuasively, she helps you figure out how to get yourself into your own books so you can leave not just your pictures, but your thoughts, your hopes and dreams, your memories and your perspective.

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