Both Les and I and the kids all have memory boxes (Will has some stuff waiting to go in a box when we find one). We got them at Ikea when we were in Australia. Memory boxes are for the big stuff, bulky stuff and things that don't belong on a scrapbook page. They contain stuff like;
- the silver cutlery sets the kids were given as babies
- the newspaper from their day of birth.
- art work
- special toys now moved on from
- ultrasound films
- Hospital tags.
- Merenia's ponytail from when we cut her hair short
- pregnancy diaries etc.
- Saskia's outfit that she wore after she was born
- Teeth (we participate in the 'Tooth Fairy-to-Parent buy back programme' aka T-F2PBBP)
- special mementos
- cards from our wedding/valentines/aniversaries
- newspapers from significant days (9/11, Obama Election etc)
- The book we made when planning the wedding
- The flag that they took to F3J
- ornaments I was given as a kid and want to keep but not display
- material from my wedding dress and the veil.
- and so on.
I try and make careful choices about which art I add in to make sure I have a cross-section or media, age it was made at and actual subject. Over time I will cull some of it or the box will get too full. Most of the kids art especially the really good stuff that doesn't make the grade for the memory box is photographed before it is destroyed. Every so often I print out a variety in various sizes with digital frames already applied and make a 'art-gallery' LO.
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