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My favorite thing right now about memory keeping is all the choices! So many different things to use and create with. I think those choices let you put yourself into the memory and share a little about who you are. I mean what would we do without all these great products out there? HA!

Myfavorite part right now is the fact that there are so many different ways to preserve and document the memories. Anywhere from the actual layouts to blogging, and I am enjoying all of it! I love that my girls are old enough to appreciate what I have been doing and they are now doing some themselves and loving it too. It has been very much a bonding experience for all of us. Thank you for always being an inspiration, Ali.

I think the entire world is on to your givaways, Ali. Crazy!!!

For me the coolest thing about memory keeping is that I am keeping a record of those everyday things that make up our life. With four girls, there are a lot of things I want to remember. Memory keeping helps me do this, and I get to be creative at the same time.

My favorite thing is creating a lasting record of my thoughts and passions now (at 19) rather than in retrospect. I think my memory keeping is more genuine if done "in the moment" -- it might be too easy to go back and sugar-coat this time in my life. By capturing my values and experiences now, I am creating a record not only for myself but for others, perhaps in the future.

Hi Ali,
I have to say that my favorite thing to do lately is journaling the little every day details of my life. Sometimes the journaling is just bullet points of errands to run or little funny things my 6 and 10 year old do or say. I'm also enjoying journaling about how my life at their current ages is/was similar or different from theirs (as well as my mom and dad's or other generations).It has really been a fun process! Next we are going to answer the prompt, "What Olympics holds the greatest memory for you & why?" Or "Who is/was your favorite Olympic athlete and why?" I'm sure to get a lot of fun things to journal from that one!!
Suz :)

My favorite part of memory keeping are the photos and the journaling as I am finding that I'm already forgetting some of the details that made that moment so memorable. As my almost 6 year old goddaughter would say, "Auntie Jean, you're old"... and I'm only in my early 30s. :P

I love the way that each story can be preserved- my kids have a detailed history of their lives. With or without pictures... I have been doing alot of LOs that are all journaling. I love the feeling of satisfaction when I have written down a poignant memory & scrapped it!!

I look at all my scrapbooks and think, I am leaving a legacy for my son. My mom died when I was 14 and I have so little of my childhood. I want my son to remember what we did, what we love and what makes him so unique. Scrapbooking is my creative outlet, it is my happy activity that I love and no one can take away.

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is learning digital!!!!
Betsy

Hi, Ali. My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is the fact that I will be leaving all of these wonderful memories for my family and loved ones for many, many years to come. :)

reading my journals and remembering those days past - what was said, what i felt, what we were wearing, where we were at. i love rereading through them more than looking through the pictures.

Honestly, my favorite is taking the pictures! I love the photography aspect of it! It is so fun to snap away as my kids are playing or eating or even sleeping!

Lately, my favorite thing is making a mess!
There is something about both scrapbooking and summer that I find very freeing. I am the kind of person who needs to spread out to feel creative, and last week I was actually working on layouts in the middle of the hallway, as my sea of paper and photos came cascading out of the office behind me! It's great fun and makes me want a drippy popsicle.

1972 people before me ? It was the year I was born, probably my lucky number !!!
I hope I win !

I forgot to tell you that journaling is the most important thing for me (and just after, playing with design)

My favorite thing about memory keeping now...I've always kept journals. What I love about keeping them now is that I incorporate my writings into my scrapbooks with pics from now & then. My 7 year old & I were recently looking through a journal I wrote at 10 years old. I wanted to live in a mansion (that didn't happen), drive a pink corvette (again, a big nope), get married(that happened!), have girls (that happened too!) & I wanted to own my own store. My daughter starting quesitoning me why I never did that-how did my plans change...a great time for me to reflect & an amazing opportunity to talk to my daughter about how life..and I still really want that store!

My favorite thing right now is going through old books and remembering what we have done and where we have been. We really have been around the past few years. :)

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is my son't face when we look through his albums. He's only 3..but he gets it. He says, "Wook at me mommy!" "That's me when I was a baby!" The expression on his face and the enthusiasm that I hear in his voice just proves to me that it is something special. That our lives as we live them is what memories are made of. Love that. :)
Mel *in Oklahoma*

My family has always been big on telling stories from the past and laughing together over fun times we have had. Over the last few years we have all had a lot of stress and saddness--my parents divorce, my mother's illnesses, financial troubles etc. It has been harder and harder to laugh and harder to keep telling the stories. I hope that by keeping our stories in the form of pictures and writing we will never experience another period of absence from storytelling and laughing.