And it's not a my disclaimer is that it's not a it's, not complete, you know, there's not like it's, not a beginning and an end to sort of baby book because that's not really the kind of scrap booker that I am. You had posted and shared your daughter anna's baby book on your block, and I just thought that was amazing because of all the little bits of life that you included in it, I wondered if you would be willing to show us a couple of your favorite pages from her book and maybe tell us why you love them so much sure I went, I went back through it. If that picture had just been on there with some pretty product, it would have meant nearly as much as with that with the story there to remind me so I think you're absolutely right.

Exactly, and I think that's kind of what I was alluding to it that one page that I said I totally forgot the story until I went back and saw that lay out. So in terms of philosophy, I think it's it's the combination of the two that I love but really making sure that the words aaron there has has become more and more important all the time. Those are the things that I really like to see along with the photos. So over the last eleven years, he's twelve, now almost thirteen, a cz I've continued on in this kind of memory keeping journey or adventure, the focus on the words have become more more important to me. Really the kind of thing that, um where I started you know is is telling these little everyday life sorts of stories and when I go back and look at his baby book it was a lot of ah just pictures of him and the ones, the pages that I liked the most for, the ones that actually included more words. Hello allie you nicole how's it going it's going well how are you? I'm well good good we're so happy that you're here I was just talking about how you've been so inspirational the people to really tell their own stories to document both the big and the small things in life and I just want to be fun to hear from you about what your philosophy is in memory keeping and how you figure out which moments you want to document it's a very good question it can seem so overwhelming I think to people especially if they're first starting out or just you know as you go through your life how do you how do you decide which stories to tell? I mean, I was thinking about a little bit about it today and I feel like for me like my philosophy is kind of grown and changed over time when I first started it was because I had a baby and so my son simon was eleven months old at the time and I really was thinking I just wanted to make a baby book and was interested in documenting the everyday stuff and that was.

Sharing Your Story by Ali Edwards