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My Grandmother will be turning 90 this year and I am making a digital scrapbook album using Shutterfly.

To create this album I have been getting these amazing old photos in the mail from family members. Boy have the memories been flooding back. There was a picture of Conor today that made me tear up Which brings me to this thought.

All these years growing up my parents took pictures of myself and my brother. From birthday parties to school activities to both our marriages and birth of our little boys. Needless to all Christmas and family activities. No matter what picture I look at each one brings back a story or a story I wish I knew about.

We all have a story and we all have a life even if it is small, important but small. I love the line from You've Got Mail by Meg Ryan when she wonders what to do when she comes to a cross roads in her life; "Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, not small, but valuable"

And one way we tell those stories is in pictures.

I admit I take alot of pictures, one each day this entire year so far, and yes I make my darling husband and son be in them and sometime they find it fun and sometimes I force them to participate. And I hope, years from now when I may not remember the past that they will look at all the pictures I have taken and the care to record things in a scrapbook that it was all for them. And I hope my Grandmother, when she opens her gift, and other family members see that as well.

I suppose what I am saying is get out there take a picture, write something down, and make/ask those family members to be in a picture; future generations will grateful.

Have a safe holiday weekend.