There is something I've been wanting to do for quite some time...and I, finally, did it! You see, ever since I started blogging, I've been wanting to turn my blog into books for my girls. Well, for
Valentine's Day this year, Chris said that would be his gift to me. Oh, I was so excited! Chris knows what a sentimental person I am!
It took me several hours to figure out exactly which posts I wanted to include in my "published" work. That was probably the most painstaking part of the entire process...everything else was fairly easy. Why, might you ask, was this so important to me? Well, I started keeping journals when I was in the 5th grade. I wasn't very consistent about it, however, until I reached high school. It's so much fun to go back and read what I wrote about my old boyfriends. Hmm...maybe I
DID act a lot like Brittany at her age, after all! I wrote about the "horror" of having braces...which is what Abby is dealing with right now. Of course, I became almost "obsessed" with keeping journals when Chris and I were trying to conceive Brittany and Abby. I wrote about my journey to become a mom, including my two miscarriages and two years of secondary infertility. I wrote about the very day I learned I was pregnant with each of them...and it's continued up until now. I jotted down so many memories...first steps, first time they said, "mama", first time they slept through the night...
ALL the firsts there are to experience as a parent. I wouldn't trade my journals for anything this whole world over because they contain my
MEMORIES and they enable me to revisit them as often as I'd like. My intention is to give each of my girls all the journals I've kept for them over the years (and there are
A LOT of them!) on the day they get married. I hope and pray they will treasure them and always know how much I loved and adored them. So, that's the reason I wanted to have a hard copy of all my blog posts...to pass it on to my girls, one day.
Here's the front of my blog books...I really love the heart background! I created Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 for the time being, but I plan to create Vol. 3 in the near future.
This shows one page of the
Table of Contents.
Here's the dedication I wrote to my girls.
And here's the back cover. Isn't the little cupid in the lower left-hand corner just the cutest?
When I received my books and opened them up, I burst into tears. I'm such an emotional mess these days! I guess it made me realize just how fast time is marching by. I'm so happy I have these books to pass along to Brittany and Abby...the stories from my heart.♥
P.S. Since several of you asked, the company I used is
Blog2Print. Just click on it and it should take you right there!
