I am what I like to call “the family historian”. I journal and record everything in our kids baby books and I am constantly writing in journals. I take tons of photos and videos and am always trying to remember to print them in books. I probably inherited that from my grandma, she was always taking photos and I remember everyone telling her to stop. But now we have all of these amazing photo to look back on. I want that for our family. If you have any desire to log all your special memories I highly recommend looking into Promptly Journals. We have their Childhood History Journal for all three kids and the Love Story journal where I record all of mine and Aarons relationship from dating to marriage. It’s such a special journal it’s “from first kiss to last kiss” chokes me up just thinking about it. I imagine my grandkids one day getting ahold of it and giggling about all of our first moments, seeing imperfections, and following along the special in between moments. This probably seems like a sponsored post but I promise you it is not. Just really passionate about my love for those journals.
Since having our third baby it has become very apparent that I have hardly any system for keeping the special objects that hold memories for us in an organized place. If you follow along on instagram you probably saw the stack of artwork from my kids preschool that I finally organized into a file system. While doing that project I decided I needed a better system for storing each baby book, hospital beanie, childhood journal etc. I did all my Pinterest research and landed on a memory box for the kids. I found these great boxes on Amazon and started loading up all the special items I have set aside over the years. I thought it would be fun to share what is in each of my kids memory boxes. If you have a box let me know what you have in yours!
Sawyer (age 5)
Baby Book
Promptly Journal
Beanie and blanket she received from the hospital when born
Photo book filled with photos from her first 48 hours
First birthday invitation
Sweet Wishes and Advice for Stephanie and Sawyer cards- a baby shower momento
My baby shower invitations
Two bows
Ultrasound photos
Sleeper we brought Sawyer home in
Her first lost tooth- I know it seems weird and I swore I would never hold onto teeth but I did. I’ll circle back in a few years and see how I feel about it.
Disneyland first visit button
Moses ( Age 3)
Baby Book
Promptly Journal
Beanie he received from the hospital when born
Beanie we brought him home in
Photo book filled with photos from his 48 hours
First birthday invitation
Ultrasound photos
Sleeper we brought Moses home in
A bunny lovey he really adored
My hospital bracelet from when I gave birth
Disneyland first visit button
Augustine (10 moths)
Baby Book
Promptly Journal
Beanie and onesie he received from the hospital when he was born
Beanie we brought him home in
Ultrasound photos
His hospital bracelet I still need to paste into the baby book
Disneyland first visit button
I am so glad I finally have a spot for each of their special items. I’m sure I will need upgrade to a larger box someday but I think these are great for where we are at right now. These items are so special to me and it felt only fitting that I had a spot for it all. I actually think I lost sleep while pregnant thinking about losing things from our kids childhood.