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Where is Caught Up?

My down the street scrapping neighbour told me, right before Christmas, that her goal over the two weeks she had off from work was to, and I quote, “get my 2008 scrapbook finished and on the bookcase shelf before 2009 starts.” I’ve no idea if she reached her goal or not, but knowing her, she probably did.

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be caught up with my scrapping. Being able to start a new year, with all the photos from the previous one neatly put away on a bookshelf. It seems like a great thing - a new year, a new book, new things to concentrate on. Neatly put the previous year in the past - focus on the new.

However, I’ll admit that I’ll never be “caught up.” I started scrapping when my son was five. While I’ve gone back and scrapped some of his younger day photos, there is so much more to record about his life. Additionally, there are photos of my life pre-kid to scrap and record the stories about [though, let’s be honest, I’ll gladly skip my high school years!]. My husband doesn’t have many photos from his childhood days and he admits that his memory isn’t the best. So if there’s a way I can preserve those for my son, I’d love to do that.

Heck, after thinking about all that I have to scrap, I’d better live for a very long time, scrap a lot faster, or else get my son interested in this scrapping stuff.

So, this begs the question … are YOU caught up? If not, why not? If so, how did you manage it?

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3 Comments

Laser Said,

January 21st, 2009 @10:36 am

Caught up! LOL I don’t think I will no what that feels like in my lifetime. I am 70 years old and started scrapping less than 2 years ago. I haven’t even made a dent in the boxes of photos from the past that need scrapping or at least going through and sorting out what to keep and what to throw out. I also need to just get caught up on the last 5 years.

Decided the only way to go about this is to start with today and with whatever time is left over today - do something from the past week. So far that is working quite well and at least I am getting something done instead of procrastinating. Spending time thinking about what I need to do just was not productive.

mflood22 Said,

January 21st, 2009 @11:20 am

Well I’m about as caught up as I can ever be. I spent my two weeks of Christmas vacation finishing the pages for 2007 and then did ALL of 2008!!! It was a humongous feat of which I’m still recovering…I have refused to take a single photo so far this year! But in saying that I’m caught up…I have books for each of the kids that started with their adoptions in 1998 but nothing from before that and doubt I’ll ever get around to it.

Bernadette1 Said,

January 23rd, 2009 @1:24 pm

I find the above comments interesting, and didn’t realize that the system I had was working so well, until just recently. Ever since my own sons were born, every picture that we took went right into the albums as soon as we got them back from having them developed. Time marches on, and now we have 120 albums of pictures, and of course all the grandchildren are in there also. It took my DH 2 years to scan all the pictures in all the albums as when digital cameras came out we just put them on the computer and backup as we went along. Also, my biggest accomplishment with my 5 grandchildren have been that I also had started an album for each of them from the date of birth, and when they graduate from high school they get 2 full albums of pictures of life as we have seen it with their friends and families and the good times that we have had together. That in itself has been quite a job. I have given to three of the grandchildren so far, have only two more to finish, and one will be graduating this year and I will be happy that I will be down to only one more to go. I also add my form of journaling with at least 10 more pages of pictures to go along with it, important dates for them along with important occasions highlighted. I have received a lot of good comments on these albums and it’s been a treasure that I am glad to hand them on their important senior graduation date. The three that have them already not only value them as their own, but their parents and all the relatives look forward to seeing them also.

I did this for a reason, as when I was a youngster money was tight, none for the extras and cameras were certainly considered an extra, and I probably have about a dozen pictures the most of my childhood days. I wasn’t going to let this happen to my grandchildren, and I am just about the happiest and proudest grandmother (and grandfather is very pleased also) to see the look of elation on the grandchild’s face and how they study each and every picture of their first 18 years. To finish the project in full, I add 10 more pages after their graduation so that they will have the ceremonies, etc. included in their albums.