fawn&forest

Welcome to Memory Keeping week! As I mentioned in my previous post, I have become borderline obsessed in the memory keeping department.  I am not a 'scrapbooker' (which is the latest craze it seems) but a run-on sentence writer of motherly love mixed in with saved receipts, garment tags and other seemingly useless but meaningful scraps.

One of my favorite memory keeping books is the Moleskine. It is simple, unassuming + fresh. The history of the Moleskine itself is also quite special + it is available in a wide variety of styles + formats. 

To document each of my pregnancies, I have used small sketchbooks, dedicating each open set of pages to a week in the pregnancy. In addition to weekly entries I have also written about our family, preparing for their arrival + decorating the nursery. Along with each weekly entry I have glued a small picture of me + my progressive belly. I will write more about photo-journaling later this week. But as you would guess, my husband takes a snapshot of me with a post-it note (with the corresponding week written on it) on my belly. I then include the post-it note in the book along with ultrasound images, doctor appointment cards + strings in accordance to the baby's aproximate length each week.

I could not stop there! To document the first years, I have used large blank notebooks. As it is, I have filled 2 Moleskines for the first 2 years of Eliot's life. Mostly writing + as I mentioned before, scraps of this + thats. In the first year, I would write a weekly entry about what exiting + monumental event happened (which of course, something huge really does occur each week!). In the 2nd year, I made monthly entries, taking notes on post-its to remind me what actually happened, later taking the time to write a month's worth of memories + other funny things I would certainly have forgotten if not written down.

Could I reasonably stop there? Nope. Now that Eliot has past the 2 year mark, I have continued in a 3rd Moleskine. 

The best friends of my Moleskines? A mechanical pencil + a lovely cup of decaf.