While I was pregnant with our son, I had a grand idea. I thought photobooks were the way to go instead of going with regular photo albums.
I'm not crafty so while I collected mementos, I just put them in a box and didn't bother with a scrapbook.
Now, our son is 5 and the only thing I have to show are 2 photobooks. One covers his 1st bday celebration in Manila and the other covers a trip to California where we spent Christmas with my sister's family.
Nakakahiya.
The trick is really to collect photos & lay them out as you go along. This is really something that's easier to do with old-school albums where you just print & slip the photos in and don't have to worry about designs, layouts, embellishments, backgrounds and captions. You can always go back to them in the future if you feel the need for captions but with photobooks, you really have to sit down and that is something that I have not been able to do.
Yesterday, I dropped by Michael's and purchased said albums. I also picked up some photos that I had printed out in Costco, those are meant to go into frames and will go in the bookshelf. It's been a year since we moved and we can't keep putting off "unpacking" forever, sana maayos na namin yung library.