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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

What to Use

When planning out your legacy messages you will need to decide how you want to pass these messages along to your children. You might decide you want to create a scrapbook all about you and your life. You can add more messages by creating pocket pages that allow you to add more notes. If you do not want to go the scrapbook route, you could use a traditional photo album and create a little legacy book by adding favorite pictures of you alone, growing up, and of you and your family/children together, plus add notes/letters down into the picture pockets too. If you want your notes for all to see then you do not have to tuck them down in, but if you want to keep them private you can fold them up and just put them down inside the pockets.

Another avenue would be to purchase a nice, creative, 3 ring binder that represents you and add your own photo pockets and note pockets in the order you want them in.

Some people have gone the digital route through their blogs and online digital scrapbooks to create things that will allow their children to know all about them.

I think all of these ways are great, but my most favorite route (for me) is the album. I know my children would appreciate hand written notes from me, so I want to pass along to them things that I write along with physical pictures with little notes from me on them. I feel like those are so much more precious than things they can see and read on a screen. And, they can touch the paper and pictures I once touched and held dear.

There are a number of ways you can pass on your legacy, your heart, to your family. The most important thing to do is decide you are going to do it, no matter how you are going to do it!

Marci