Scrapbooking is a great hobby and I love it, but I don’t have nearly enough time to do it justice. My kids are lucky if they get a few pages a year. It’s time consuming and incredibly expensive. Though worth it, it’s great to have an option that takes less time away from the family I’m trying to preserve memories for.

Your Birthday Book available from Amazon for less than $15 is totally not a cheesy pre-packaged baby book. It’s a birthday book! You start it at birth and fill it out every year until your child’s 18th birthday.

Birthdays provide the perfect annual opportunity to preserve moments in time as your child changes from year to year. Contrary to scrapbooking, Your Birthday Book gives you fun, fast, and casual birthday activities for ages 1-18 as well as spaces to stick birthday pics and a random images from each year, cute questions to ask your kid, and a time-capsule envelope for stashing away odds and ends (artwork, school papers, hand tracings, birthday cards, invitations, and other memorabilia) that would otherwise be shoved in a box in the closet if you weren’t a devoted scrapper. (Or is that just me?) It encourages you to complete the same four activities for each birthday. The question prompts and tone shift each year, but the essence intentionally remains intact.

What a great way to preserve memories - I love it!

We’re giving one away this weekend! Just a little reward for RSS subscribers and readers who take the time to pop in over the weekend. To enter, send an email with BIRTHDAY BOOK in the subject line and your full name and mailing address with blog link if you have one in the body to theopinionatedparent@gmail.com before midnight MST on 2/17/08. One winner will be selected at random. Congratulations Tara!