August 18, 2009 9:18 PM
Do you have your husband's baby book?
Btw, when my sons married, I gave their Baby Books and some special mementos to their wives.
It just seemed like the right thing to do.
Did you MIL do that too? Or if you are a MIL, have you done that?
Comments
My MIL gave me my husband's baby teeth (eeew). Not exactly the same thing...a baby book would have been nice. LOL!
Posted by: Rachel | August 18, 2009 10:56 PM
My mil gave me my husband's baby book and I kind of wish she hadn't. We really enjoyed looking through it together, but I really feel like it is HER book of memories, not mine or even his. Also, I'm a bit nervous about anything happening to it now that it's in my keeping. I keep my babies books so that I can look back and remember their babyhood..I can't imagine giving it up, but maybe I'll feel different in 20 years!
She also gave my husband a bear that was his when he was a kid and his special Christmas ornaments. It means a lot to us to have those special items.
Posted by: Jessica | August 18, 2009 11:33 PM
That's so sweet. My MIL did that when I married her son. It's been neat to compare his growth chart and milestones with our children's.
Posted by: Leslie | August 18, 2009 11:52 PM
My husband's baby book is still in his mother's bookcase. I like to look at it when we visit.
Ooooh, that reminds me, I need to figure out what my mother has done with my baby book...
Posted by: Courageous Grace | August 19, 2009 12:20 AM
I'm not a MIL yet. And I've never kept up baby books. But I do have a good photo album made of my son who just graduated, starting from birth and kept current. I'm working on a second one so that I have one to keep because I plan on giving him the originals if and when he marries.
Posted by: beckie | August 19, 2009 8:04 AM
Hmm, no I can't see myself doing that. I'm not sure why it seems like the right thing to do, though I don' think it's wrong to do. I see the baby book as a Mother's set of memories structured around sets of stats and events . . . I guess at some point I would want these to be passed down to my children's families, but I think it will be fun to bring them out when I have grandkids to compare and contrast.
Posted by: Monica | August 19, 2009 9:27 AM
My mother in law still has the baby book, but she gave me copies of a few of her favorite pictures of my husband as a child so that I could put them in my childrens babybooks. I have a page in both for "pictures like daddy" where I tried to pose them in ways similar to my husband's originals.
Posted by: Lauren | August 19, 2009 10:29 AM
Good LORDY my MIL has given me so much STUFF from my husband's childhood that I'm inundated with STUFF. I've got clothes (all of it is well over 30 yrs old), so many newspapers, magazines, clippings, pamphlets, brochures...all because they mention his name. Photo albums- which include SO many of his ex girlfriends (some of which she still likes to remind me of).
And she expects me to allow my one son to play with all the toys (think rusted metal cars with small parts... he's only 20months old) and wear all the clothes she gives me. She's offended if I tell her something broke or doesn't fit.
So believe me, I will remember this when my children get married. I will give them their scrapbooks (they will all get one scrapbook) and that's it. When I die, I will leave them their babybooks, but as a previous poster mentioned, those are mine.
Posted by: Dirtdartwife | August 19, 2009 11:26 AM
Just a small definitional clarification:
A “Baby†book is a parent’s collection of photographs and other keepsakes to remember the important times when their child was younger.
If the parent no longer keeps the said item and passes it to the child, it is no longer a “Baby†book but just another photo album with pictures of when the child was young and historical document relative to health and life milestones.
The descriptive adjective used to describe said book/album is all about perspective.
Just FYI, my dear old mom hired a really good photographer, Mathew Brady, but I never sat still long enough for the pictures so they were nothing but a blur, so he eventually decide that photos of still subjects would be better for his career. Who knew?
Posted by: Resident Old Married Man | August 19, 2009 11:54 AM
My MIL started working on completeing my husband's baby book when our daughter was born. She never started one for her other two sons.
Posted by: Susan | August 19, 2009 1:37 PM
Funny you ask. My MIL just dropped of Carey's Boy Scout and Eagle Scout tub. It has alot of fun stuff in it. She's also given me a framed pic of him when he was a boy and a toy. But not the baby book. That's ok. That's her boy and I know someday she'll want us to have it. (What I reallllllly want is her wedding album. It is so classic and PRICELESS!!!) But how do I say "Hey, when you die, can I have your wedding album?) lol
-Shannon in Austin
Posted by: Shannon Best | August 19, 2009 11:03 PM
