breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 31, 2017 16:24:49 GMT
My 12 year old and 10 year old have been alive longer so of course they have more pages than my 4 year old... but my 10 year old has been helping me "organize" my scrapbook albums and noticed that I have 2 albums for most years but 2004 (when the 12 year old was born) through 2006 plus my "heritage" stuff and my childhood pages fit in one album. Actually the 10 year old was only alive for 9 days of 2006, so her stuff is in 2007 and she has nothing to complain about. It's the 12 year old whose baby hood was not well documented.
In my defense, I was not a scrapbooker in 2004-2005 (I didn't really "get it" until 2008 when DS (kid #3) was born and he was probably the most photographed baby ever born) and there were weeks in 2005 where I didn't pick up the camera (the horror). Digital cameras were fairly new, I was exhausted, I was used to film and not taking a 1000 pictures of every event and the pictures I took are not that great... also instead of taking color photos and converting them to black and white on the computer, I took them in black and white or sepia (DD was very red as a newborn) and they are stuck that way.
Are your kids scrapped equally? Do they notice if they aren't? Do you scrap bad blurry photos just because it's all you have? I think I am going to have to look for my old blog (circa 2007) and DD's baby book to see if I can do a better job... I was seriously sleep deprived in 2005 and don't remember much of anything!
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Post by destined2bmom on Jul 31, 2017 16:39:36 GMT
Ah no, I figured that one out when I began consistently putting scrapbooks together. My oldest will tell you that I am the paparazzi. He actually hates having his picture taken now. My youngest, poor kid, has had half of the pictures that the oldest had done. Because well, the oldest is in most of his pictures. I know, bad mom.  |
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kitbop
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Post by kitbop on Jul 31, 2017 18:34:49 GMT
I try, but my daughter, my youngest, loves to be centre of attention and is in competitive dance so of course she gets 3 layouts to every one of her brothers. Plus, we didn't have digital for either of my boys' babyhoods, so I don't have the volume of pictures or the quality. I would have to get negatives digitalized...and honestly plan to do this someday! I feel a little bad, but NONE of them will want ALL their layouts...and I think it may equalize that way  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 18:43:59 GMT
Mine are 18, 15, and 13. I gave up on the notion of anything being done equally a long time ago.
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Post by melanell on Jul 31, 2017 19:12:38 GMT
Right now I have far more scrapped of DS #1 than DS #2 because it was easier to find scrapping time when I only had one kid. Plus, I had a larger dedicated scrap space back then, AND I had more money for printing pics and buying supplies. DS #2 hasn't noticed yet,but if he does I'll tell him that when DS #1 is off to college and I only have one kid demanding my time, I'll work more on pics of DS #2.   |
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Post by disneyer on Jul 31, 2017 19:40:01 GMT
Not even close. Oldest didn't have a lot of photos as she was mostly pre digital. 2nd child is not athletic and not social at all. Third has the most since she does sports, clubs, groups and at one time she did dance. They don't worry so I don't worry.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 31, 2017 19:44:16 GMT
I have two boys. Up until 17, they were scrapped equally (at least I took the same amount of pictures-not all years scrapped yet). My oldest does not enjoy the camera as much unless he has been drinking. My youngest hasn't met a lense he doesn't love. He's a clown and pretty confident at the same time.
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Jul 31, 2017 19:45:55 GMT
Yes! I have 3 kids, 20, 15, and 13. Oldest DS has allot cause he's the reason I started scrapping when he was just a few weeks old. And he was an only child for 5 years. Then DS 2 came along and I took so many pictures and was chugging along with his scrapbooks until I had my DD just 20 months after he was born. Well after scrapbooking 2 boys, I was over the moon to be able to scrap pretty pink, flowery girl stuff!!
To this day it is unequal unfortunatly. DS was very active in marching band and Jazz band in high school, so still lots of stuff to scrap about him, even through high school. DD loved being the center of attention when she was small, and now as a teen is very active in lots of things and of course never says no to a selfie with mom. Now as for middle DS, he's very laid back, quite and reserved. He decided not to join marching band in High school, even though he played drums since elementary, and really doesn't wanna do anything. There is way less opportunity for pics with him, and even when I do try he makes a face, and it's so darn hard to get him to cooperate. So less pics=less pages.
I do make an effort sometimes to focus on his pages and just scrap him. But let me tell you, I always find myself wanting to scrap DD more then anything else. And no, they haven't noticed yet!
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Post by pennyscraps on Jul 31, 2017 19:45:59 GMT
No, they really aren't. Their first 5 years are equal, and they both have K-12 school albums that are alike, but the hobbies and in between stuff and post high school is NOT equal. I try to even it out as I can...but it's impossible really, to me, to keep them "even steven". That is hard enough with Christmas gifts! |
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 31, 2017 19:53:55 GMT
No, they really aren't. Their first 5 years are equal, and they both have K-12 school albums that are alike, but the hobbies and in between stuff and post high school is NOT equal. I try to even it out as I can...but it's impossible really, to me, to keep them "even steven". That is hard enough with Christmas gifts! My boys found a Christmas list of gifts purchased with a total running off to the side one year. They realized that the "Santa" gifts kind of evened things up. I am rarely more than $5 difference. |
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Post by janamke on Jul 31, 2017 20:21:49 GMT
My kids...ages 13, 10 and 10...are not and never will be scrapped equally. They understand that this for me, is a form of creativity and sanity. I'm doing it because it makes me happy, not so they will have full albums of equal length. My oldest has over 140 finished scrapbook pages from her first year, monthly recaps, noting everything from eating and sleeping habits to favorite toys. My twins, have a 1/3 finished album from their first year. And so it goes. I never, ever duplicate layouts either. Currently I do a mix of 12x12 and project life. My girls are into competitive gymnastics and dance, while my son does Boy Scouts. I'm not at boy scouts so photos are few and far between, while my girls just have more chances for photo ops. No one seems to mind. At least not yet.
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Post by dasmith2 on Jul 31, 2017 21:12:54 GMT
I didn't start scrapping until my 4th baby, so I had a lot to catch up on. I hardly have any baby pics of my dd, so not many child pages of her, but she's a selfie queen now, so I have plenty now to scrap about. I think it ends up evening out somehow
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 31, 2017 23:09:31 GMT
My biggest regret is doing family albums instead of albums for each kid. In about 2007 I decided to do individual albums and someday I hope to split up my family albums.
So since 2007 what I do is photos that only pertain to one go in that one's album. Joint events like Christmas I split the photos and the ones of one son go primarily in his book, etc. For a birthday, for example, I will do a one pager for the other one's book - the one who isn't having the birthday.
So going the long way around, doing individual albums it hasn't mattered because each child has their own albums with the things that are most important to them.
Often for events that both are getting I do a similar layout for each one's book. I do scrap blurry photos if it's all I have and I want to scrap the memory for them.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 31, 2017 23:10:46 GMT
Are your kids scrapped equally? No, but because there is quite a spread between oldest & youngest. I figure it means I still have time to make up the difference. Do you scrap bad blurry photos just because it's all you have? I have, sometimes. But I'll stick a photo overlay on it, or some vellum. And I'll take the time to tell the story that is important to me. I have four kids. I think unless it is glaringly obvious that I favored some more than others (like if one kid has two pages, but all the others have multiple albums) then it won't matter if kid A has ten more layouts done than kid B. I think we worry about it more than they do. |
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Post by fuji on Jul 31, 2017 23:49:51 GMT
Mine aren't. I definitely have more pictures of DS (the youngest). Cell phone cameras improved considerably and social media became much popular in the time between DD and DS's graduations. He also was much more receptive to being photographed than she was.
The biggest difference is in their sports pictures. I bought a much better camera as DD was finishing her career and DS was beginning. DD and I recently talked about this, and she is totally fine with it.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 1, 2017 3:31:04 GMT
My biggest regret is doing family albums instead of albums for each kid. In about 2007 I decided to do individual albums and someday I hope to split up my family albums. So since 2007 what I do is photos that only pertain to one go in that one's album. Joint events like Christmas I split the photos and the ones of one son go primarily in his book, etc. For a birthday, for example, I will do a one pager for the other one's book - the one who isn't having the birthday. So going the long way around, doing individual albums it hasn't mattered because each child has their own albums with the things that are most important to them. Often for events that both are getting I do a similar layout for each one's book. I do scrap blurry photos if it's all I have and I want to scrap the memory for them. I only have two kids, but I do a book for each kid. Each event gets scrapped twice, but pictures do vary to focus on the kid who will get the book. |
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Post by grammadee on Aug 1, 2017 3:31:36 GMT
When I started scrapbooking, my kids had already finished high school, two had graduated from college and one from university, and one was married. I made them each a scrapbook of the highlights of his/her life: school, sports, special activities, plus family tree and traditions. Doing this from the future looking back it is easy to be fair.
Now I scrap activities with my dgk's, and I see some of them more than others. Some repeated activities like hockey and dance are interesting being seen several times. The day to day routines don't get as many photos. But over the year, things seem to balance themselves out.
The only time I am concerned about the appearance of "fair" is with the family calendar. Each month has a photo of one or more of my kids, their spouses, and the dgk's. Counting dh & me, there are 21 in our family to spread over 12 months. I try to make sure they all get close to equal play. Also I try to rotate certain months, so the same family doesn't claim the December page every year. Sometimes it is a challenge, but although they joke about sending me the perfect calendar shot and go through the calendar each Christmas looking for themselves and trading a bit of trash talk, they all seem happy enough with the outcomes so far.
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Post by steakgoddess on Aug 1, 2017 3:54:13 GMT
I organize and mostly scrap chronologically. So of course there's more layouts of the oldest than the youngest.
I don't worry about equal amounts of pages.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 1, 2017 12:03:11 GMT
My biggest regret is doing family albums instead of albums for each kid. In about 2007 I decided to do individual albums and someday I hope to split up my family albums. So since 2007 what I do is photos that only pertain to one go in that one's album. Joint events like Christmas I split the photos and the ones of one son go primarily in his book, etc. For a birthday, for example, I will do a one pager for the other one's book - the one who isn't having the birthday. So going the long way around, doing individual albums it hasn't mattered because each child has their own albums with the things that are most important to them. Often for events that both are getting I do a similar layout for each one's book. I do scrap blurry photos if it's all I have and I want to scrap the memory for them. I only have two kids, but I do a book for each kid. Each event gets scrapped twice, but pictures do vary to focus on the kid who will get the book. This is what works for me also but you managed to say it in one sentence! |
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Post by LisaDV on Aug 1, 2017 12:31:03 GMT
Are your kids scrapped equally? Do they notice if they aren't? Do you scrap bad blurry photos just because it's all you have? I think I am going to have to look for my old blog (circa 2007) and DD's baby book to see if I can do a better job... I was seriously sleep deprived in 2005 and don't remember much of anything! Probably not. DS14 is now to the point and has been for a while where he's not keen to pose for me and doesn't like me just snapping away. DD12 will still stay doing whatever while I take the photo. She also still strikes pose after pose or at least funny face after funny face. Since I display many of my pages before they go in albums, I will notice oh, I have 3 of dd, but none of ds. I'll go do a ds. Or the reverse has been true as well. YES, I scrap the bad, blurry photos usually I turn them to black and white. Don't beat yourself up over the lack of documenting of your pre-scrapbooking days. Heck, don't beat yourself up over missed documenting now! It is what it is! They have some memories preserved, and they'll survive not having it all. I feel, if we were able to document all the memories, we wouldn't have the time to create any with them. The creating of them is way more important. |
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Post by Prenticekid on Aug 1, 2017 16:29:31 GMT
My adult children (jokingly) make sad faces about the fact that my grandchildren have been scrapped much more than them when you look at our family albums. However, they each have a childhood album, a wedding album and a 30th birthday album that covers their entire lives to that point. Luckily, they actually realize how much scrapbooking means to me and how much it makes me happy and keeps me in a good mood! LOL They aren't the least bit angsty about it who is scrapped more; however, they still play the "mom loves you more" card! LOL
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 1, 2017 22:22:55 GMT
I struggle with this. I started scrapping when I had my first baby. DD and DS have individual albums from 2000-2008. In 2009 & 2010 those years were painful for me. So I just stuck photos in a family album. Then in 2011 I met DH. He came with three little girls. So since then I have only done family albums. I find that two of the kids are now teens and not happy with having their photos taken. My 17 year old DD has never met a camera she didn't like. Her entire bedroom is wallpapered with photos. She texts me pictures all the time. I try to keep it fair in my books. But alas, with five kids it's damn near impossible.
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Post by refugeepea on Aug 2, 2017 1:53:28 GMT
I've given up on scrapping my kids individually. The original plan was scrap them until they were five. Do individual school albums that are minimal. Everything else goes into the Family Album. I'm not done scrapping any of them up to age five and I've nixed the idea of school albums.
My poor third child will luckily never care. He has special needs and it's difficult for me to scrapbook him. Not that I'm embarrassed, but I'm terrible at journaling. My kid who did soccer and basketball; easy. The girl who does plays; easy. Explaining my excitement at his small milestones that are huge to me? Difficult!
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Post by stinkerbelle on Aug 2, 2017 16:30:07 GMT
my children are currently 23, 18 and 10. i started scrapping with a trip to disney when my oldest was 7 and his sister was 2 (and my baby wasn't even born). we didn't take the 2-yr-old so right off the bat there was an entire album featuring him and no pages of her.
fast forward 5 years and i'm pregnant with the third and our house burned down, taking all the scrapbooks and negatives with it. when i finally got back to scrapping, i had a brand new baby girl, so most of my pages were about her.
right now the only child living with me is the 18-yr-old, so most of my pages feature her.
this is a long rambling post to get to my point which is basically it evens out in the end. and if not, in my specific case, the kids have never shown an interest in pages about themselves so if they don't care, i don't either.
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Post by dald222 on Aug 2, 2017 18:34:50 GMT
I have mommy guilt from my beautiful son :)my beautiful daughter has a completed baby book :)I had severe post partum after he was born  I used to worry but I read it wasn't my fault :)our full sports album is my son & husband only |
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Post by loco coco on Aug 2, 2017 19:48:45 GMT
I only have 1 and I cant imagine scrapping for 2 kids. Props to you mamas!
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Post by dald222 on Aug 2, 2017 19:57:55 GMT
the truth is I have 1000s pics/ stuff of my family I have 1000s of heritage pics/stuff too :)I realized that I could never do them all some yrs back :_)my son has always loved my layouts :)so does my daughter she scrappped too I figure that when I am gone they will be happy to have any pages I did & not say why did I not scrap something |
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Aug 3, 2017 2:35:58 GMT
No I'm equally behind on all 4 kids ugh!!
Oldest is 26 and youngest is 19 and I'm so behind its depressing!
I started doing a pl album for each kid and myself.
I started with photos from 1990 and I'm up to 1995 I have such a long way to go it's overwhelming!
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Post by katmandu on Aug 4, 2017 16:06:44 GMT
I only have 1 and I cant imagine scrapping for 2 kids. Props to you mamas! Ha! Me too. One kid = not having to worry about any of this. I take a million bagillion pictures of him too, so I can't imagine how many pictures I would have if I had more than one! |
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Post by Linda on Aug 7, 2017 16:33:53 GMT
Not something I worry about. My kids are 25, 17, and 10 - I've been scrapping for 15 years and using a digital camera for 11 or 12 of those (got my DSLR in Mar 2007 - photos picked up both quantity and quality-wise then) I mostly scrap family albums but each kid has a first year album (3 volumes each but not the same number of layouts in each album) and I've done individual albums here and there for stuff like soccer and scouts and yearly portfolios when we homeschooled. My oldest probably has the most overall layouts at this point. There are definitely more photos of the girls than of him though - I was broke and using film when he was small and rationed picture taking accordingly. In any given year, one kid will be more represented than the others but which kid varies by year. This year? My youngest has the most pictures, my middle the least....the little one still likes her picture taken and she's active in Girl Scouts and school (and I'm usually there to take pictures), the oldest sends me pictures from Okinawa (and he's even in them now and then), but the middle one is camera shy AND I'm often not with her when she's doing activities away from home. She flipped through my 2017 album earlier in the year and commented that she wasn't in it - I replied that she needs to be IN the photos to make it IN the album and she has since allowed a few more pictures |
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I used to worry but I read it wasn't my fault :)our full sports album is my son & husband only 
