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Thursday, February 1st, 2007

My scrapbooks aren’t all picnics and parades. I try to document our life as it really is - full of happiness and joy with occassional tears and trials.

Recently, I shared a page that featured a letter I’d written to Aidan about his temper tantrums.

This is one of my earliest pages. Really. What kind of mother snaps photos of her baby girl sprawled out on the pavement, crying and reaching out for comfort? I wasn’t even a scrapbooker back then. LOL! (click to enlarge images)

This layout features another letter - this time to Dani. In black and white, for all the world to see, I admit to being a lazy Mom. Someday, when Dani’s a mom, I hope she’ll look at this page and remember that no matter how much you love your kids, you’re gonna make mistakes, and that doesn’t make you a bad parent. I hate it when I hear my friends say stuff like, “I get the Bad Mom award today.” We’re not bad Moms. We’re human Moms.

Another letter to Dani - this time about HER shortcomings:

Scrapbooking tears and heartbreak:

Frustration:

Illness:

I don’t dwell on the unhappy events in our lives, but I don’t exclude them, either. I want my family albums to tell our WHOLE story. All of the stories - happy ones, silly ones, sad ones, frustrated one - they all make us whole.

Coming up in my scrapbooking queue: a photo shoot where my friend Cara and I became so frustrated by our whiny, uncooperative boys that we literally dragged them back to our cars with clenched teeth. We were so totally frustrated that afternoon, but when I look at the pictures now, it’s downright FUNNY! The pics are hilarious, as you can see the 6 boys growing more and more resistant with each frame. LOL!

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