The first email I wrote to my eldest was when we were in the hospital. I set it up on my phone when she was no more than a day old. It consisted of ‘oh holy god, never again, I’m never having another baby. I’m sorry but you will be an only child’, it includes a picture of her in an incubator and her time of birth.
One of the midwives working the evening shift told me to do it for her. She said she had been doing it for years, that her eldest was nearing eighteen and she was preparing to hand over the password. She had only set up the email account in recent years and had missed all the baby milestones and recommended I set one up to record all her precious childhood memories. Since then I have recorded pretty much everything from her first step, her first sink bath to the first day she said mama.
With email and internet being so accessible nowadays and I can just send the kid’s video’s, pictures, quick little stories, and the really personal stuff that doesn’t make the blog. I love that it records milestones and memories in chronological order so if you need to find a particular photo it’s much easier to locate because you have a rough idea of when it was taken.
With a growing family, there is only so much room for storage boxes so I find this way I get to keep all their artwork in one little place too. Recently I’ve started taking pictures of their artwork and emailing it to them. It’s impossible to keep every single drawing they have created so I keep the most creative pieces and all the cards they make me, everything else I’m afraid gets dumped but not before I take a photo and send it to them. I also caption each piece with what they’ve named them.
This is ‘Mammy and Kayla swimming‘, aged 2. I can’t make head nor tail of it. I do see the waves, though…
And this one, a picture of ‘my mammies and daddies in my favourite colour‘. Both her mammy and daddy in the middle and each of our partners on the outside. She was three when she drew this, and I’m sure the one with the squiggly head is her dad!
Most of my emails to Frankie consist of ‘when your kid does this I will sit back, eat popcorn and laugh!‘. His inbox is full of pictures of destruction with the odd milestone thrown in. I have the best collection of 21st photo’s, although you guys have seen a good 80% of them in fairness.
I absolutely LOVE emailing them their little milestones, the funny things they do and say, and all the video’s and pictures I take of them. Not everything they do makes a blogpost. It’s so simple and takes me all of a minute. I don’t bother filling in their baby books anymore and if I’m honest Kadie doesn’t even have one, and babog number four won’t have one either.
Only today I inboxed Kadie to tell her she pulled herself from one side of the room to the other just to get her spiral ball that Frankie had kicked away from her. It was something so simple but it was an exciting, something to celebrate and I doubt if I had a book for her that I would have recorded it.
Set your kids up an email account, it’s so much better than a milestone book, it’s free, instant, there’s no cutting photo’s up or gluing and best of all there is no limit of space. I’ve never looked back!
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I do this for my three… I’ve never logged in to see what I have so far but I do know that it’s mainly pictures. I might mail the odd blog now that i think about it.
Ah brilliant. All their memories in one little place. I love it. I’d probably log in and out though just to keep the account active. Some email providers delete inactive accounts.
Ah ok. Will check on them today. If I can remember the passwords lol
Lols that’s the hard part. I gave them all the same one. Easier for me haha
Oh I came up with something individual and clever and IMPOSSIBLE to remember…..as you do lol
Wow what a beautiful idea. So much easier than a scrapbook. I love it. I’m gonna have to start doing it. It’s so modern and so easy. She’ll absolutely love it when she’s older x
What a fab idea! I e never heard of doing this but it’s so much easier than a milestone book! I tried to do one with lamb but just got out of the habit of filling it in xx
Such a lovely idea I don’t know why I’ve never done this!
I love the idea of keeping their drawings online too as then u dont have to keep them all.
That’s the best bit, you don’t feel so guilty dumping all their artwork!!
What a great idea!!! 🙂
Thanks you 🙂
This is such a lovely idea and something I would never think of doing. I’m going to set one up today. I love the idea, thank you for sharing xx
Awh delighted Sarah, I find it so much easy and convenient 🙂
I’m so going to set this up for my baby due in July
Oh Congrats on your pregnancy!!
I love this idea! I was so thorough with Roo’s baby book but by the time Edie arrived, I have been useless. I write them love letters instead 🙂 H x
Love letters, so cute!!
Oh my God, what a brilliant idea! Why didn’t I think of this?! Fortunately both my girls are young enough that’s it’s not too late. So glad I found out about this now. Thank you so much.
Ah great news Tori, your dead right – it’s never too late. They’ll thank you when they’re older!
This is such a wonderful idea, but I do love having a scrap book. I’m old fashioned like that, ha!
If scrap booking is you thing then its be more enjoyable, I don’t like all the cutting and gluing haha
I love this idea! My blog is their baby book but there are so many other moments worth sharing that aren’t worth writing about.
Great idea, I started a private blog for each of mine but promptly abandoned it.
This is such a wonderful idea. In a lot of ways the blog does this for me, but, like you I don’t share all the little things so I miss stuff. I wish I had done this, I never did get round to filling in their baby books…!