Random Scrapbook Pages

Just posting some of my favorite scrapbook pages. No idea what I've used on them, when I did them, when the picture was taken or what the journaling says. If you click on the picture though it'll get bigger and you can see a close up of them.

Some of them were done using traditional scrapbooking supplies. You know, paper, glue, stickers etc. I even used my handwriting on a couple I think. Most of them use my computer for the journaling because I am a Reid by birth and there fore I am long winded. My handwriting isn't the best for fitting a lot on to a page and I have a ton of computer fonts so I go that route.

Lately I've been doing digital pages though. It's so much easier and cleaner and the boys can't cut up the paper I was just about to use on a page. I can just hit save and close my program. Plus if someone wants a copy I just have to print them off one instead of trying to recreate one for them. It's been great. So much easier to do it digitally.

I do miss my paper though so I flip flop back and forth. This move did make me realize I have far too many crafting supplies for one person to have unless they own a store. It's just not right the amount of stuff I have. OMGosh.

I do a lot of pages on stuff that normal scrapers don't even think to do pages on. I get really odd looks often and rude questions a lot. It doesn't bother me though. I don't want someone reading my books to think everything Cody and I have faced was just peachy. It hasn't and it won't be.

When my kids read my books later or (god forbid) I die before they really get to know me, I don't want them to think we were like the Cleavers. I don't want them to think life was so easy for us. I don't want to be unrelateable. So I put everything in there. Good, bad, funny, horrific, downright depressing... It's real. It's our lives and I'm not just scrapping the sunshine and daisy moments.

They'll know how hard it was when Cody was deployed to Iraq. How many times I cried myself to sleep. How many times we emailed (over 1400.. Yes 1400). Just everything with that ordeal. They'll also know I don't resent him going or him being in the military.

When they ask why we don't have many pictures for oh 4 months or so after Kyra's death, it'll all be in my scrapbooks. I didn't handle it well, I wasn't a person for 4 months. I didn't do much but be a ball of flesh. I was a bad mommy for a while. I can admit it, I learned from it, I got help. I wrote it down. Hopefully they'll learn from that mistake as well.

Cody helps with my scrapbooks a lot. He helps me organize my stash, he knows the names of products, he's just fantastic actually.