It’s time to do a month-in-review of April. I love to take a memory inventory at the end of the month and document it all to add to our family albums. This is my 17th (SEVENTEEN!) year of doing monthly roundups. I started this routine in January of 2006, and it’s my most helpful tool for meaningful and easy memory keeping.

I put together this questionnaire back in 2002 and sent it to all of my family members on both sides of our family. They all filled them out and returned them to me via email. I still have all of their responses saved. It would be fun to send it out again after all of these years and compare the answers.

April is ending in just a little over a week, so I'm here with a check-in to help you get ready for the monthly roundup! I'm finding it helpful to take inventory of my photos and memory keeping before the last day of the month hits. Then I still have time to capture some great moments before it's too late.

I have a brand new video tutorial to share and it’s full of tips, ideas, and layouts using my newest Expecting and Baby collections. I hope you enjoy it!

A challenging but gratifying project is to document your own baby years and memories. If you have your own children, you may find yourself only focusing on their memory keeping. But your story is important and definitely worth documenting!

I had so much fun designing the baby collection, and I knew I needed to add a whole lot more to cover pregnancy and more baby memories. I’ve been surprised at how hard it is to find these types of designs for scrapbooking. I’m excited that the expecting cards and 40 weeks cards also come in transparent background.png files so they can be used as stamps as well.

I’ve got the month of March all wrapped up and I love the month-in-review approach more than ever! If you aren’t familiar with my monthly roundups, check out this post. There is even a video tutorial included! I had a lot of great photos from March, so a two-page spread was a great format.

It’s time to do a month-in-review of March. I love to take a memory inventory at the end of the month and document it all to add to our family albums. This is my 17th (SEVENTEEN!) year of doing monthly roundups. I started this routine in January of 2006, and it’s my most helpful tool for meaningful and easy memory keeping.

As I’m getting ready to become a Grandma for the first time, I have to admit that a lot of my thoughts are centered on babies. We are all pretty excited around here and can’t wait to meet our grandson in early August!