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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 12:21:27 GMT -5
Thanks for the info, justme! I took my DSLR and the point and shoot when I went on vacation. I only took the point & shoot when we went to Seattle because I didn't want to lug around the camera bag, and there were a couple of shots that I took that would have been amazing with a higher quality camera. Ah well....I still have the memories (for now, anyway )
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 12:21:36 GMT -5
OK...not to hijack but how do you post pictures here? ;D You need the image code of the photo, and then you just paste it in between tags that say [ img ] (only without the spaces). I like Photobucket because it's easy to upload pics and get the photo code.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 12:23:35 GMT -5
This was taken with a point and shoot. I think the quality is pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 12:24:23 GMT -5
Awwww......
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 13, 2012 12:25:19 GMT -5
If there is a picture online, you can right click on it, and go into properties and copy the URL address from there. The put that between the img with [] and the /img with []. It doesn't work all of the time. Sometimes I get an error doing it that way - so I always preview.
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Post by Formerly SK on Aug 13, 2012 12:25:55 GMT -5
OK...not to hijack but how do you post pictures here? ;D You need the image code of the photo, and then you just paste it in between tags that say [ img ] (only without the spaces). I like Photobucket because it's easy to upload pics and get the photo code. Thanks! Here's a pic of DS from our trip.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 12:26:10 GMT -5
YIKES! I need to do my roots....
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Post by raeoflyte on Aug 13, 2012 12:32:08 GMT -5
Lena--go get family photos done NOW! My MIL put off family photos for 30 years because she insisted that she HAD to lose weight.
The reality is that your family loves you the way you are right now. The kids will love seeing what you looked like when they were young, and seeing photos how they remember you.
Plus, taking the photos doesn't freeze you as you are now. You can still lose the weight, and then you'll have those pictures to show just how far you've come.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 12:33:57 GMT -5
Aww, both of those photos are awesome (the two of the kids)
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 12:34:36 GMT -5
Plus, taking the photos doesn't freeze you as you are now. You can still lose the weight, and then you'll have those pictures to show just how far you've come.
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 13, 2012 12:48:16 GMT -5
I have scrap books. Not the pretty, pretty scrap books with the matching borders and wallpaper backgrounds and such, but random obviously amateur photos mixed with bits of other things - a metro ticket, a movie ticket, a postcard, part of a map, etc.
When we went to Paris not long ago, we saw a giant bronze statue of a rhino outside the Orsay museum. Behind the rhino was a baboon, if you went around back of the statue you got a nice shot of monkey butt. So there it is, in our scrapbook. Monkey butt in bronze.
It's not the neatest, most attractive photo album, but it has lots of side notes, either typed or hand written, lots of pictures where the kids are making bizarre faces, stories about the giant mutant squirrels that tried to muscle their way into our cabin through the screened door, pieces of family history stuck in as well.
Won't win any beauty prizes but I like them.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 13, 2012 12:51:45 GMT -5
More importantly kids don't stay cute forever. You think you have plenty of time, then one day... bam! You've got a teenagery looking person who dyes her hair purple, spends three weeks in the pool so it turns some bizarre shade of seafoam green, then shaves part of her head.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 12:53:20 GMT -5
Scrapbooking is awesome, another art form I deeply enjoy and wouldn't have any patience for doing myself. I've done a couple of mini-scrapbooks in my day and they were all very neat-looking and treasured by the recipients. But they were also well outside the realm of my natural artistic ability, so they all took forever.
Put it this way: I'm a writer. I plan to write letters to my babies starting when they're born and continuing throughout their life. Probably no more than once a month (otherwise that would be a LOT of volumes to read), but often enough that it would be a major time commitment if it wasn't something I was basically already doing (I spend a significant portion of each day writing so it's really just a matter of redirecting a few mornings a month to writing something specific).
And I can understand why a lot of people would find the idea of writing to their kids that often very overwhelming. To ME, that is the most natural way to preserve their childhoods, because it's the one that comes most naturally to me. I wish I had that touch for photography but I don't - so of course it's going to seem like more work to me.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 12:53:46 GMT -5
More importantly kids don't stay cute forever. You think you have plenty of time, then one day... bam! You've got a teenagery looking person who dyes her hair purple, spends three weeks in the pool so it turns some bizarre shade of seafoam green, then shaves part of her head. What happened to her looking cute?
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 13, 2012 12:53:48 GMT -5
I'm more worried about the puberty years. If my kids look like a mixture of me during the tweens and my husband during his tweens - I'm not even sure I will be able to eat a meal with them. It will have to be like a television show where we all sit on one side of the table.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 12:54:46 GMT -5
A friend of mine keeps a blog for his daughter in which he writes to her every day. It is really nice.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 12:55:02 GMT -5
Thyme!
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Post by Formerly SK on Aug 13, 2012 12:55:58 GMT -5
I started a (private) blog about 5-6 years ago. It's a quick way for long distance relatives to get pics/stories of the kids. It has also become a defacto baby book for the kids. Some day I'll print it out and get it bound into books for them. I've done A LOT of writing/pics though, so I'm waiting for the technology/prices to come down. I've done over 1200 posts, some quite lengthy, so the project will be pretty immense.
I think once Firechick is born you will discover what works for you. Everyone has a different system for how they record their lives and yours will emerge.
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Post by raeoflyte on Aug 13, 2012 12:56:38 GMT -5
Dark--just make sure you're getting those freaky pictures too. I'd love to show those at the wedding shower. FB--we've done the opposite. Pictures with some writing--quotes, and snippets from our journals and facebook mostly. Yours will be neat to have mostly letters with some photos thrown in.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 13, 2012 12:57:23 GMT -5
It's a different kind of cute now.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 13:00:05 GMT -5
A friend of mine keeps a blog for his daughter in which he writes to her every day. It is really nice.
I was actually thinking of doing my letters in blog form also. I go back and forth on that one. Some of them are bound to be personal, or I just might not want random people reading them. I can always restrict the reading list, obviously, or disable comments - but to me the point of writing in blog format is getting responses from people. Just not sure I want that when I'm writing to my daughter.
We'll see how I feel once I've got a few letters under my belt.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 13, 2012 13:06:14 GMT -5
Write them in letter format, keep em on your computer, and get them self published in hardback book format. She'll treasure those forever. There's a bookstore in Santa Cruz with a printing machine set up to print soft cover or hardbound books on a one off basis. The prices are pretty reasonable. Only a couple bucks more than you'd pay for a regular book.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 13, 2012 13:09:12 GMT -5
Office Max will bind things for you, and put a cover on it.
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Post by Formerly SK on Aug 13, 2012 13:11:12 GMT -5
A friend of mine keeps a blog for his daughter in which he writes to her every day. It is really nice. I was actually thinking of doing my letters in blog form also. I go back and forth on that one. Some of them are bound to be personal, or I just might not want random people reading them. I can always restrict the reading list, obviously, or disable comments - but to me the point of writing in blog format is getting responses from people. Just not sure I want that when I'm writing to my daughter. We'll see how I feel once I've got a few letters under my belt. For 3-4 years my blog was open to the public. Then as the kids got into Kindy I felt their lives should be their own and not be published to the world. Now it is private and restricted to only a few friends/family. The exposure issue has definitely limited me at times (like when I ponder my parenting decisions vs my parents' parenting decisions, or when I'd have a conflict with someone at a playdate or something). But in general I like the blog format because it forces me to finish my posts and have them be somewhat "professional" writing vs just jotted notes or incomplete sentences. And I **LOVE** how much all the long distance relatives love the blog. They are always thanking me for taking the time because they feel so much closer to the kids' lives. I'm quite proud of the blog - I think it will be a great historical document in our family for generations.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 13, 2012 13:11:23 GMT -5
Yeah, but does it look like a real book, or a spiral bound presentation?
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 13:12:48 GMT -5
Write them in letter format, keep em on your computer, and get them self published in hardback book format. She'll treasure those forever. There's a bookstore in Santa Cruz with a printing machine set up to print soft cover or hardbound books on a one off basis. The prices are pretty reasonable. Only a couple bucks more than you'd pay for a regular book. Dark - this is my basic plan Whether or not I also preserve them in blog form is the part I'm debating right now. I definitely plan to get them bound up for her - and any other kids that come along. I'm leaning toward keeping them private. I don't like the idea of personal, private stories about my kid being available on any kind of public forum. Then again, I hate it when people post embarrassing photos of their kids on FB so I'm a weirdo like that
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Post by Firebird on Aug 13, 2012 13:15:44 GMT -5
And I **LOVE** how much all the long distance relatives love the blog. They are always thanking me for taking the time because they feel so much closer to the kids' lives. That's a good point. I would love to read a blog like this written to one of my nieces, or one of my friends' kids. Of course, my kids could always choose to share their "mommy books" with friends or relatives if they wanted to do so. Part of me doesn't want to make that decision for them. Like I said, we'll see how it goes. This conversation is actually inspiring me to write my first one before she's born, which means I need to do it soon
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 13, 2012 13:16:09 GMT -5
They can do the bindings that aren't spiral bound, but don't have a printable binding either. I think they are called Cover Bind, or Thermo bind.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 13, 2012 13:16:20 GMT -5
When do you plan to give them to her? Obviously, she won't be able to read them for the first several years, but after that are they something you plan to share with her while she's still a kid/teen or will you give them to her as an adult?
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