You all need to do this :)

ASmallWonder

Set up an email account for your kid(s) and send them emails about all the cute, funny, amazing things they do.  Big memories will stick with you but the daily funny stuff really won't and once you get beyond that baby book (if you've been good about writing in it at all lol) all you've got is your memory.  I started Aiden's when he was about 1.5 and I just read back through them and already, just 2.5 years later, I had forgotten that he used to call light switches "butts."  I forgot that he used to say "Oh gosh!" but it sounded like "Oh gorsh" which is exactly how my grandmother used to say it.  I forgot that when I was pregnant with Quinn he told me he was going to teach him how to be a super hero.  Right now I know that Quinn laughs like Karen from Will and Grace but I don't know that I'll remember that when he's grown.  So I email them to tell them about what his life is like right now so we can all go back and relive it

Nix55

That's a cute idea, but I can barely even manage my monthly photos and baby book. MOTY

ASmallWonder

Nix55 said:

That's a cute idea, but I can barely even manage my monthly photos and baby book. MOTY

I know what you mean but trust me - the emails are SO easy.  Think about how much you email or text your family.  I always have time to type out "You snorted when you laughed today and scared yourself!"  I don't write novels - they're truly tiny thoughts that I just want to get out there somehow

Nix55

I could do text to email. That I could handle.

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ASmallWonder

For me the pictures and baby book are overwhelming lol  The pictures take forever for one good shot (and usually Aiden is trying to photo bomb them.  Naked, for some reason).  The baby book is like "You want me to remember all the little shit from the whole MONTH?  You ate food and we probably went places.  That's all I've got."  Plus I have OCD with the baby book and it has to be the same pen which I usually can't find.

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CL8badB said:

I think i will do a weekly email or every other week. I just feel that doing one every day will lead to 1000s of emails!! I cant handle an inbox like that. Even if they are super short! Lol

Oh shit, I don't email them EVERY day!  Lord!  I don't even do them on a schedule.  I just try to think "That was some funny shit - I should tell him."

amie444

Already doing.

ASmallWonder

CL8badB said:

@elmoali‌ HAHA! I dont know why but something about your OP made me think that you meant every day! :P I know what it is... Js just SO amazing that id be writing every day!

Probably because I was saying "all the daily stuff" but there isn't necessarily email worthy stuff every day lol  Today I sent Aiden an email about his older woman loving ways.  I even sent an email for his future partner explaining to her (?) that the man she loves is a little boy down the hall from me, holding his blue blanket tight and who wanted just one more kiss before bed....how I hope I grow to be a mother who understands and values him as his own person but that I hope she'll be patient with me because today, I'm just a mom to a little boy who is my entire world and he thinks I hung the moon for him.

ASmallWonder

From mine to theirs

peachnectarine

That's cute. We have a little notebook that I use to write down the funny or cute things that he does. My mom had notebooks for my sister and I when we were little. We recently read them and they were so funny and it was great to read stories that we didn't remember.

whitney2302

My dad used to carry around these little pocket calendars.  He's a contractor and would use it for appointments, measurements, phone #'s, etc.  In the back he would always write funny things that my brother and I said or did.  They are pilled in his desk drawer and we've always loved going back and reading them. 

I'd never thought of the email idea!  Much easier to do with the technologies of today!

ASmallWonder

My mom kept a diary when we were little and I love reading them but I am thesuck at physical writing.  I just never do it

WasNotWas

I love this. I think boys would appreciate this more than super detailed baby books...and daddy/aunt/uncle/whomever can participate!!

Mufflerlove

What would worry me is what if email .. Or at least the provider of the one you choose .. Doesn't exist in 18 years?
It is a cute idea though. I would probably lose a notebook.

ASmallWonder

Mufflerlove said:

What would worry me is what if email .. Or at least the provider of the one you choose .. Doesn't exist in 18 years? It is a cute idea though. I would probably lose a notebook.

I've thought of this and the only thing I can come up with is that you'd have notice and could forward them to a new account or print them.  I chose gmail because my money is on Google still being around.  *fingers crossed*

itsStackie

Great idea!!! And good addition @WasNotWas‌ except my MIL will show me up on the e-mails. Lol.

WasNotWas

itsStackie said:

Great idea!!! And good addition @WasNotWas‌ except my MIL will show me up on the e-mails. Lol.

But you have the password!!

WasNotWas

OMG I am dying...I set these up today and MH has already sent an e-mail...he was like "I haven't heard back from him"

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numbersgirl08

Love this idea. We already have an email account set up for our dog (don't ask haha) but somehow I had never thought to set one up for N! And I might be a little crazy. All 3 of us have firstnamemiddleinitiallastname@gmail email addresses so then I started getting worried that other kids we have won't have that email available, so since we know what our boys name would be, I went ahead and set up an email for our hypothetical son. I figured there's at least a 50% chance we will need it since I know we'll have another child. Or maybe I'm just crazy. Shrug.