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[quote=Anonymous]I think about this stuff all the time (my kids are now 11 and 9).  All the time, OP!

One thing I would recommend, and that is to ask the older generation questions--my kids ask me stuff about their lives--really, basic stuff I should know "Did grandma have chickens?" and I don't know!  My dad is dead so more than a few times I've been frustrated that I had adult years with him and never asked him something.

Anyways I don't do scrapbooking etc, but there is one thing I do for my own kids.  I go to Pages (or MS Word) and have an intermittent journal that I keep for the kids.  It's written to them, and it talks about what's going on in their lives right now, who is doing what, and also what's going on with me at the time.  So why I've made various decisions (why I switched their schools, for example).

I might have an entry just like you have above--because, you are writing about how having the kids has affected your thinking about family.  Now those interesting thoughts and musings of yours could just get swallowed up in the internet, or make it on to a more lasting document that your kids can read when they are in their 20s.  So they will get the benefit of not just remembering when they were 7 and their dad was X, but they will get the insight of what was going on with you as well.

I keep it simple and don't stress about adding pictures or anything--the bar has to be very low for it to work.

This year I wrote something in January, then had a couple of entries in July.  I've missed many events but the important thing is it's there to do periodically.

I've noticed as the kids have gotten older the content has changed some, because now they can remember things that happen to them, and especially with my oldest I'm discussing decisions and underlying motivations with them.[/quote]

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