Being Caught Up is Overrated

Occasionally, I’ll hear scrappy friends declare they are caught up on their scrapbooking. I have no interest in being caught up. If I am caught up, then I have nothing to scrapbook. The idea of that depresses me.

I think we want to be caught up to some extent because we are afraid of forgetting the details. There are strategies to get the details recorded and scrapbooked later, that I am not going to go over today.

What I found over the last few days of scrapbooking is that I had more story to tell the further from the moment in time in which the originally story occurred. I scrapbooked some photos of a going away play date with one of my friends. Since that play date, we moved away (far enough we can’t participate in this play group very often) and another mom moved away. Another baby was born since this play date. I was able to include these stories on the layout, too. If I had scrapbooked this play date a year ago (the play date was in January or February of 2010), those stories would not have been recorded. [Note: I am not sharing the layout because there were about 20 of us between the kids and adults and I don’t want to mess with getting everyone’s permission or blurring out everyone’s faces to post the layout.]

My point? Being caught up is overrated. Some details might be lost, but other details might come up that better tell the story.

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Stephanie