Christmas gifts for my brother and sister

These arrived in the post this morning and I couldn't resist snapping a picture. I'm really pleased with them. They were produced by Snapfish, and I think they've turned out really well. Snapfish had an offer on their book maker, so I took advantage of it, especially as I was planning this project for Kate and Rich for Christmas anyway, it means they're done nice and early.

I have become the keeper of the family photographs, a responsibility that I love, organising, sorting, categorizing and placing in albums, I love it. But I hate hogging all the pictures, I think it's important that everyone has copies. So Christmas and Birthday presents for the next few years for my brother and sister are sorted. This album will be the first of many, I'm sure. It's an album of pictures of mum, spanning her lifetime.

I love looking at each of these pictures and I feel really close to mum when I do. It's wonderful to remember through pictures. We can often feel sad remembering the last few months of mum's life, when she was so poorly, it feels good to remember that it wasn't always like that. All the amazing things mum accumplished in her life and all she did for others and for our family. I really hope these albums will be something to treasure. I'm sure they will prompt laughter and many tears on Christmas morning. Got to get them wrapped now, can't believe the shops haven't started selling Christmas paper yet!