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This came across my Facebook feed yesterday and I thought “OMG. Why in the heck didn’t I think of that?!?”

Create an email address for your kids

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I, like many parents today, am on my phone, tablet, and/or computer pretty much 24/7.  I also have the WORST. MEMORY. EVER. There have been so many times my kids have done something ridiculously hilarious, smart, crazy, stupid, endearing, or otherwise that I’ve wanted to document in some way to be able to tell them later in life because I know that I won’t remember. Now I have an easy way to do that without having to remember to write it down later or print a photo for a scrapbook that I’ll never finish! Send them an email!

Also, all that macaroni art, random certificates of achievement, the amazing rock that Mac found under the deck, and more… no more storing everything in a box for the kids to just throw away when they move in to their own house. Take pictures! Email them! Then they have them forever without taking up space and they can share them with THEIR kids (assuming technology doesn’t change TOO drastically in the next 20 years – ha!).

And I will surely be giving grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, dear family friends, etc. the email address. It’ll be perfect for when they want to send a special birthday wish or congratulate them on a job well done. No, it’s not the same as the beautiful hand written cards I have from my Grandma Norma that I still cherish (and used to recreate her signature as a tattoo), but I would love to have more messages from my loved ones helping me relive my youth (again, sucky memory). I’m excited to give that to my kids.

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