My daughter just turned 4 and I have been terrible about keeping track of the cute things she says or how she pronounces them. For example, she had this funny way of saying banana when she was about 1.5. It wasn't your typical nana or manana. It was more like maraca, but I cannot for the life of me remember it exactly. I've scoured my emails, using the search function, hoping i had somehow emailed someone about how cute it is. I've looked at all my videos and nothing. I have to be better about this! Especially now that she is 4 and I'm just about shocked daily by the things she says! And now I have little Benjamin who is turning 1 next month and I am sure he will have plenty of cute stories!
I would love to have a list of all the things each one has said year by year and when they turn 18 be able to compile a scrapbook of each year. So I am determined to start being more organized about these memories. This is where I need your help! I would love to hear about how you keep track of them. Do you have a word or notepad document where you just type them out? Do you have an app on your phone that you use? Or are you old school and write it down in a notebook? What easy and quick way do you record your memories to scrap later? Or are you seriously lacking in this department like me? Leave a comment and I will randomly pick one winner to recieve $5 to my store! Entries close at Friday(9/9) at 12pm eastern!
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I keep a document in my google docs (so I can get to anytime I remember it's there.) I also use Oh Life (or at least try) and I have an app on my iPhone called Moment Diary (free!!) that is handy for quick notes too, you can attach pix and sound clips to those too. And when you want you can email them to yourself. I know it's a lot of different things but I figure through time I will find the one that works best and till then I have many options depending on where I am and what I'm doing, the important thing is I get it down. :)
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I am now lacking on this as well. Heck, I am still scrapping 2009. I am amazed when my memory does stay on track. I guess if I were more adamant about this, I would probably use my phone and the sticky note app on it or a recording feature where I could write it down in a notepad later.
ReplyDeleteI do a bit of each! I handwrite some in a notepad, whilst others I have noted in my iPhone (using the Notes app, nothing fancy!), or even in a .txt file on my laptop. Like SandyPie said, as long as it's written down somewhere, it's all good. :D
ReplyDeleteI jot things down on a notepad. I'm very "old school"....LOL
ReplyDeleteI have a steno pad I make notes in but for some reason I NEVER write on the lines...I always write diagonally LOL>
ReplyDeleteI do a bit of everything. I have a list on my phone using "Ink Pad" (free) and a book I use called "My Quotable Kid" where I try and remember to write things down. But I also just joy them down on paper and insert them in that book.
ReplyDeleteI've been completely lacking in this department too. I have a really cute baby book for both my girls (4 months and 2 years) and I have been horrible about keeping up with it. I actually filled out my oldest's tooth chart by looking back at pictures! Thankfully I do take tons of pictures, but sometimes I forget why I took the picture! I just recently found evernote and ohlife.
ReplyDeleteEvernote is awesome. You can make virtual notebooks for anything, clip webpages, layouts, pictures, etc to an entry. I use it mostly to keep track of all my scrapbooking layouts for cts and challenges. Plus it also has a phone app so you can jot down a note on the go and sync it back to your home computer with the click of a button!
Ohlife simply emails you a prompt each day and you simply reply to the email and it saves your entry to your account. You can always logon and add to and edit each entry, or add a picture if you want.
Both of these are helping me at least keep a written log of all the things I want to remember about each day so I can fancy it all up later! Lol
My girls are all grown up now and I so wish that I had made notes of their little sayings! With there being three of them I sometimes have trouble remembering who said what so I am encouraging them to make a note of what their little ones say.
ReplyDeleteI did see a good idea on a blog quite sometime ago. The blogger had printed out little speech bubbles and written on them and then stuck them onto a sheet of scrap paper so that every so often in her Digital Scrap Album there was a page of little quotes.
I have a journal that I received at my baby shower that everyone wrote advice in. It was barely 1/4 used so I am filling the rest with milestones and cute sayings when he gets to it (baby boy is only three months)! We keep it on the side table in the living room so we see it often and remember to write in it.
ReplyDeleteI too, have a journal for the first year and something, after that I stopped adding things as I was more dedicated to scrapping pics, I hope I had continued though, my son is 6 now and I can only remember the words I wrote down. But I'm happy I have finished many scrapbooks, they always bring some memories back!
ReplyDeleteFortunately I talk to my mom almost everyday on the phone. She is several states away. The other day I mentioned to her that I was trying to remember some funny stories or sayings from my kids that have just slipped through my fingers. About 1 week later she sent me a note book. She had been writing them down for years! What a Blessing! I had no idea. I was just usually venting on the phone but she always asks me to tell a story about one of the grandkids before I hang up.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been good about keeping track of these things at all and I'm kicking myself. Sometimes I do manage to note some things by sending myself an email and then filing it an outlook mail folder.
ReplyDeleteI'm adequate at keeping track but by no means fantastic. I get the big things down, but still end up missing some things and the DH is really not a help when I ask, "Remember when....?" But I do keep track and I do it by hand. I have 5x7 spiral notebook and I write it all down. I keep thinking it might also be a good idea to scan a page or two of my writing for them. Anyway, that's how I do it...old school - pen to paper. :)
ReplyDeleteI use the Log your memory notebook. I chose the digital one to make it exactly the way that better suits me. I have it in my purse and jot ideas, words, reminders and to do lists any time, anywhere : I also keep tickets of museums, cards of restaurants etc. It is dedicated to keeping memories for further scrap and just perfect for me !
ReplyDeleteThen if I have a deadline for making a page, I capture it in my Google calendar, with a reminder ... my brain is in my computer lol !
I am just like you, not very good at keeping track of funny things that we say. My advice would be to look at what you carry around everywhere with you. Do you carry your cell phone everywhere? Take notes on that. And keep pens and notepads in the important rooms around the house, that way you are reminded to write things down. Hopefully that works for you better than it does for me!
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