A true labor of love
@1creekgirl (40654)
United States
November 30, 2020 6:55pm CST
My husband, with my help, is making two photo/scrapbooks for our two children for Christmas.
Sounds easy right? I've decided it was easier to plan the Normandy invasion.
First he had to go through about eight photo albums and a huge box of loose pictures.
The albums will be his life story with all the grandkids, too.
Then I took pictures of the pictures with my cell phone, cropped them and ordered two prints of each one from Amazon Photos.
Easy, you say. It was so complicated. We ended up with 2 of each, 3 of some and four of some!
If I didn't already have Migraines, this would have pushed me over the edge.
Now he's working on putting them in the albums. I think the kids will appreciate it although they'll never know the hours of work we've put in.
Can't wait to see them open the albums at Christmas.
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@LindaOHio (158786)
• United States
1 Dec 20
What a great Christmas gift. Do you have a scanner? That would have made the process simpler.
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@1creekgirl (40654)
• United States
1 Dec 20
I have a scanner, but printer ink would have been much more expensive than ordering on line.
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@1creekgirl (40654)
• United States
1 Dec 20
The kids will never realize all that went into it.
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@JudyEv (326858)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Dec 20
@1creekgirl I'm sure they won't.
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@kaylachan (59063)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Dec 20
Sometimes the simplist gifts take the most work. At the end of the day, it's well worth it. At least I like to think so.
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@1creekgirl (40654)
• United States
1 Dec 20
I always think labors of love are very meaningful.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
2 Dec 20
i've found that most oft what sounds easy 'tis more'n likely a bear! so glad ya'll got that tended'n he now proceeds to make the albums. they'll be most 'ppreciated fer certain.
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@1creekgirl (40654)
• United States
3 Dec 20
I do hope these will be very special to our children.
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@MarshaMusselman (38723)
• Midland, Michigan
1 Dec 20
Hard work but we'll worth it. I'm sure they will treasure the album's.
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@Tina30219 (81549)
• Onaway, Michigan
1 Dec 20
That is nice your husband is doing this for them.
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@AllAboutAMA (108)
• Indonesia
1 Dec 20
extraordinary! very happy your child has parents like you.
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@1creekgirl (40654)
• United States
1 Dec 20
Thank you! I hadn't thought of it that way.
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