When I scrapbook it allows me to share with family and friends the story of our lives. Scrapbooking isn’t just for documenting the good times. It shares the good times and the bad times in our lives. It shares with someone how you feel about someone or something. When I scrapbook I am able to let all the worries, stress and just the outside world disappear. It allows me to create without limitations; I am not told what I can and cannot do. Scrapbooking is no longer just putting pictures on paper; it is a place that you can document true feelings and allows you to document when something happened and what has happened on that day.



If I wasn’t scrapbooking I do not think I would have been able to get thru the death of very important people in my life. When I scrapped I was able to let go, I was able to show people what these people meant to me and the rest of the family. It allowed me to remember the times that I had with these people and document it so future generations will know what they were like even though they have never met them. It allows my family to see who their family is. Scrapbooking might not include just immediate family; it allows me to document the growing military family that has come into our lives on our journey with the Army. By scrapbooking, this allows my children to see who we have met along the way in the journey with the military and they might never see these people again but they have touched our lives and hearts, it allows them to learn about family members that they will and have never got to meet, it documents the feelings of other family members and me of these people so they can get a sense of how they touched out lives and how they lived their lives. I also scrapbook in hopes for my children to see how important it is to document what has happened in our lives so that we never forget, because you need to live each day since you don't know what the next day will bring.