Tell me 5 meaningful stories you need to document/scrap.

Great ideas!

I want to do memories of elem. school (went to 3 different schools even though we never moved. Bussing was the reason. It would be unthinkable now, but I started kindergarten in one school, then because of bussing had to go to a different school right in the middle of the school year. Then went to that school through 4th grade, then they made us go to another school.) I ended up loving each school, and the only hard move was the new school for 5th grade. I got good at making new friends!

Also want to do middle school, high school, college and law school.

Our house in Michigan and PA. All about the kids lives and what we love to do as a family.

1. I need to finish the album working on, the story of us, for our 25th anniversary.
2. My childhood
3. My husband's childhood
4. Finish my daughter's album of her trip to Europe (she's started it)
5. Our Florida vacation

1. I'd like to document "the home place" - my paternal grandfather's home that was built in 1827 and has been in our family for about 90 years now.

2. A cousins album - I have many cousins on both paternal and maternal sides and was raised knowing them. I have been surprised to meet people who don't know their cousins. Mine were an integral part of my growing up years.

3. The cats I've fostered. I have pictures of all of them and notes. Maybe this isn't an important story but I'd still be interested in looking back on them all and I have such cute pictures.

4. All the different places I've lived. I came across a complete list recently. My dad (who died in 2009) must have told me the places because my mom doesn't have his recall for addresses. We were a Navy family and moved frequently. (Another take on this and probably a separate layout is that I have four brothers and we were all born in different states .)

5. I'd like to do some layouts and stories of family resemblances. Like, my brother has a strong resemblance to my great-grandfather on my father's side. I resemble my mother but I favor her sister Carol even more.

Tracie, I was G-Girl on Two Peas but you know me as Lisa Browning, or libro55.

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1. definitely would love to scrapbook about my job, I have been a Childcare Provider for about 29 years now.
2. how I was a foster child and met my family many years later and all that each of us 4 siblings have been through.
3. what my faith means to me.
4. need to scrapbook about the place I live, what I love about the small village we live in.
5. and definitely would like to have an all about me page every year and where my life is at each time.

great question!

I forgot this... it IS an important story.  What a nice thing to do.  We have a rescue Aussie but have never fostered.  You are a good person.

I want to document my son's recovery but I am having a difficult time "going there".  In order to get to where he is today, I have to scrap through the bad times and I just can't bring myself to go there yet.

You all have really got me thinking. I am in the process of doing a book of my dad's passing but it's turned in to his life. I have so many books to finish from school books to the birth books of my 3. Book of our animals they are all getting older. My friend from school passed last year and doing a mini of her. but, the reason i am thinking of her she left alot of journaling for her son and it was so fun to see. I want to do that have a book of me take pics of my hands and journal the me. The stories of my love of my husband we have been together 32 years. Oh Scrapping booking....

You all have so many good ideas to "borrow"!  
1. Complete some more pages in my ancestry book. I need to do some more research, but have sort of come to a standstill there. But I have 
    more photos that I need to add.
2. Re-do my son's baby book with more journaling this time. His old sb is in a book that I bought at a Hallmark store and the pages have
    turned yellow.
3. Try to tell the story (ies) of how alcohol has affected our family thru the years. This will be a hard one to face, but I think it needs to be
    written down somewhere.
4. Maybe a "bucket list" for myself. Maybe just a 2-page l/o about the places I'd like to visit (if I win the lottery) or some things I'd like to
   get done before I sign off.
5. And, like some of you, make a few l/o's about the things that I'm grateful for and love about the people around me.

Great question to get us thinking Tracie!    Maria

GIRL THAT ONE IS HILARIOUS!!----

I want to do that too...

after I finish desert

1. All the jobs I've had (from grocery store clerk to DJ, to newscaster, to ad exec, to clerical too!)
2. Famous people I’ve met
3. Concerts I have gone to
4. The places I’ve been (more of a list since it is so long!)
5. Favorites (right now) Movies, books, colors, styles, etc.
6. Cars I’ve owned (LOVE cars!)
7. All the places I’ve lived (that's a long list too!)
8. Collections I have! (so, should each get a page? I collect antique wedding cake toppers...which is funny since I never married, but have been engaged a few times!....antique plates with pink roses on them, antique linens, Old postcards, which was a hobby I did with my late father, oh, the list seems to go on and on.)

What a great idea for a thread. This is good to think about...

Well, broadly, I would like to finally finish my son's first little album, collecting the best-of for his first few years, and do more journalling in it. I'd also like to get my wedding photos (on film) scanned digitally so I can adjust them and print them; the color is way, way off for them so they need serious processing and better quality printing than what I initially got.

But stories? That's an awesome question.

I really need to get the confidence to put myself in my books. Being the youngest in my family I am pretty much the afterthought so there's not a lot documented. I guess I want to reclaim that and define my story for myself. I also want to do a private-ish scrapbook that addresses some of the not-so-beautiful moments of my life.

Great thread, glad it was bumped! There are many idea here R that I will use, especially @elaynef!

My main goal is to scrapbook our infertility journey and premature loss of our son. But like @thekatsmeow, I'm not ready even though it's been almost 5 years. It's funny, I know how well I am doing in my day to day life, but the action of putting it on paper makes me realize how deep the hurt runs.

I had to think about this a while too!
1. A you right now layout for each of my kids...the journalling is done but I need to pull it all together
2. Pivotal moment in my life layout. About 9 years ago I lost a significant amount of weight and have kept it off and looking back I can see that it was such an important moment just deciding that I wanted to change that I want to record that.
3. My mom and our relationship
4. Stories about my oldest son who starts Grade 12 this year (!)
5. Story about our family roots in relation to my Grandma's cabin at the lake. She passed away this past December and so much of her is still around when we're there

I want to scrap my journey to running my first half marathon and how I need to get back in shape and start running again. I ran the Disney Princess half marathon this year with a friend and it was a pretty emotional experience for me.  I'm not very athletic at all and not in shape at all now. Anyway, I do want to tell the story.

  Thanks for this post TracieClaiborne. Might be the kick in the pants I need.