Do you do scrap booking? I think Mama did scrap booking before scrap booking was cool. My life wasn't chronicled on pretty pages of nice books or CDs, but rather in a plain paper book which has become worn and tattered over the years. Neither were there photos of birthday parties or vacation trips, but rather
Mama kept things I had made in school, learning to write my long name and colors,
the perfect attendance and honor roll certificates I received the first four years,
and art work I had made.
By the time I graduated from elementary school, there were newspaper clippings I wanted to save and the program for our closing day ceremonies.
Of course high school graduation was something to be remembered.
I carried scrap booking on past high school and saved clippings of the marriages of friends.
Maybe not all mothers have time now to sort through their children's schoolwork to save parts of them, and maybe not all children want their things saved; however, I'm very glad to have my old scrapbook to look through now and then.Smiles, Charlotte
