I think I know now...

Today I got a special  gift from Papercrafting Princess today and I was so excited!!! My daughter was standing there bewildered by my excitement.  I know she's seen me get packages in the mail before  & has seen me acting like a complete fool. I guess today it brought about a question for me.  She asked,  "Mommy why do you love scrapbooking so much?"  I really didn't have to think about it.  I said, "Because  I love taking pictures and I like decorating them and writing notes about what happened during that time.  And it has become even more special to me because I have children and time goes by so fast and sometimes you forget little things."

A few weeks back I had said to Tamika what if after the kids grow up I get bored with scrapbooking or even before that?  Scary thought for me.
 
Just a while ago I was leaving comments on LO's over at SB.com and  stopped by to visit

Cndgay

she's been scrapping for like 50 years! I was looking at some LO's she did going back to when her and Bob met and fell in love and it really made me feel all emotional inside.  Those memories and the ones we create as scrappers are like part of our legacy.

I remember as a child when it was thundering & lighting my grandmother would have all the kids sitting quietly by candle light while God did his work.  My cousins would play games and I would pull out all the photo albums.  Seeing my grandmother  and her sisters and brothers with big afros and different styles of clothing.  I would dream up in my mind the reason for the photo by what was going on.  Sometimes if I could I would ask questions.  I think that's when it all began.  I wanted to tell a story with my photos for who ever looked through my albums would know.