Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Today’s topic is a task under Remember Love. There are two subtopics to Remember Love: don’t expect praise or appreciation and give proofs of love. I have decided to start with give proofs of love in case you need an idea or two for Valentine’s Day.
Email photos of my daughter to relatives.
In November, I did this. I selected 4-6 photos of my daughter and emailed them to several relatives. For us, this is really important because most of my family only sees my daughter once a year. Even if they see her more often, it still is important to share photographs of her so that they can have updated photos. They can print these photos off if they want. I’ve set a goal to do this about every three months. I have set-up a reminder in google calendar to do this. As I set-up my reminder, I realized, it has been about three months since I last did this. Luckily, I just ordered prints of photos last night, so selecting a few to email will take only a few minutes.
How does emailing photographs of my daughter show proofs of love?
For me, the photos serve as a reminder of how fast my daughter is growing. I email them to the people that should already love her, but it serves as a tool to communicate that I am thinking of you, too. Now, I could just as easily post the photos to facebook or some other photo-sharing site. When my daughter was first born, I did set-up a sharing site through snapfish. I think only two or three people out of the dozen or so I invited actually set their account up to view the photos. I don’t like putting a lot of photos on facebook because of privacy issues. I think these photos are for family rather than for friends or acquaintances. Some of my friends like to see the photos, but most do not. Overall, emailing the photos is a message to select people that I care, whereas the other systems do not send that same message.
Do you email photos to family members? Why or why not? Please comment below.
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Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
