I have slowwwwwly started to think about trying to get some of our sentimental crap taken care of. I know logically it’s not crap, but sometimes when it’s everywhere and needs to go somewhere, it can seem overwhelming. Maybe that’s why its alllll over.
I’m starting with Broderick, because I figure that he has the least amount of stuff to try and take care of. And within that category, my first step was finally finding and ordering a baby book for him. (He’s only almost 18 months old, after all.) I wanted something really simple and cute and not super baby and just basic. I found this one, which I love, and I’m excited to start filling it out and putting some pictures in it.
Since I need pictures for his book anyway, I also started our family yearbook for 2014 so I didn’t have duplicate photos and so I could in theory take care of another item on my sentimental clutter to-do list. After much debate, I chose the “Year of Us” theme from Shutterfly.
I also had to try and figure out when some of these big firsts happened because I have kept track of some of them in our five-year memory book and some of them in my head. Helpful, right? Thankfully, that’s where Facebook and my text messages come in. I have a lot to go through but I have been looking to my texts to see what happened on what dates so that should I accidentally delete said texts, I will have the milestones written down somewhere.
The “on this day” feature on Facebook has helped a lot too, including telling me when he first slept through the night for the first time. It’s also a fun reminder for me to see what has happened over the course of my Facebook life. And let’s be honest, was there life before Facebook? I’m just not sure…j/k. Of course there was. I have sentimental clutter to prove it.
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