“This is your life, mother”

 A great idea for this mother’s day is a scrapbook depicting your mother’s life up until this point. It’s like a chronological tour of her life ’til now. The hardest part of this book will be finding all the pictures and keepsakes you will need, but you still have about 2 weeks to gather everything you need from aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and close friends.

Here is a list of basic items to get you started (these can be personalized according to your mom’s taste):

• a scrapbooking kit (any craft/hobby store should have one)
• Mother’s day embellishments, stickers, rub-ons
• Memory and Date embellishments, stickers, embossing
• Personal pictures (from her childhood to current) school photos, high school prom, graduation, wedding, following baby’s birth, vacation pictures
• Mom’s favorite and best recipes
• Mom’s accomplishments
• Poem for first page that describes what your mother means to you
• Her ambitions from when she was young (“I want to grow up to be”) and then what she became
• Past cards from husband and kids (mother’s day, birthday cards, valentine’s, etc.)
• Personal notes to mom from family members, friends and you
• What your mom means to you page

The book should start from the earliest information you can gather to today. The setup of the pages will be left up to you, I use a similar setup as pictured above. The page arrangement in the book will depend greatly on how much and what information you have on each item in her life. This is a great site to get ideas on different layouts for your pages. This will be such a special from-the-heart gift, it is sure to be treasured and showed off over the years. Another cool thing to do, is every mother’s day from this point on, you could incorporate more parts of the book; displaying such items from the previous as vacations, special moments (births), valentine’s and Christmas. Once your book is complete, wrap it in your favorite Mother’s day paper and wait for the tears .

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