It is my birthday week and I am all about making my own dreams come true. Even as I am waiting for the bookshelves I’ve ordered to house our collection of books, I thought it might be a nice idea to create a memoir of photos to see and enjoy. Sure, we have digital cameras and fabulous phone cameras, and can see our photos on our computer any time. But then, few things compare to the joy of actually holding a large photo album in our hands and reliving memories through those photos. A case in point is our wedding album. I’ve seen most people roll their eyes when it comes to wedding albums and videos, but for us, they’re precious memories of family get-togethers—more so now than before, since many of those loved ones have passed away. The album idea was triggered in my mind when I was spring-cleaning last week. We have a large stack of photos and photo albums. Even when my son was born, we had one of those point and shoot cameras, and those days, it was wickedly expensive to buy and develop film. We got our first digital camera in September 2004 (yep, a […]
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