After reading the article, I felt like there was something I could do and that really needs to be done. So for FHE last night, we read part of this article together, and I taught my family that it is just as important for us to preserve our own history, as it is for us to search out our family history.
Over the years, I have collected pictures, and other memorabilia for each of my kids and stored it all in plastic totes. (What a mess!)
Last night we set a goal for the kids to get their important documents, pictures, and other favorite memories organized into a binder. Something like this...
They really do love looking through their old photographs, and funny things they have saved. We all had a good laugh at their kindergarten "self portraits" and stories they wrote about our family. Here is a picture of each of us you might find in our personal histories...
