Remember when scrapbooking was big" I remember watching my mom get into it, though not FULLY committed like some others who may attend conferences and spend hours upon hours scrapbooking, and she made my sister, brother, and I our own scrapbook of our life until about age eighteen.
It was never my thing, but I loved having that book! When I had David back in 2013, Justin and I were noticing rather quickly that all the photos were sent via text message, and all the videos were 20-30 second clips that just lived on our phones or our hard drives. He mentioned a few times that he likes having tangible photo albums to look through, and that he misses the fact that no one sits down to go through old photos anymore.
I was juggling a newborn, work, and first-time motherhood when I first heard about Chatbooks. Instantly, I knew that would be the way I would easily and quickly create books of photos of David for family members. All my photos of David were on my phone, and many of those on Instagram as well, so selecting a bunch and creating a Chatbook on the app was totally doable.
As time has passed, I regret I haven’t been terribly consistent with yearly Chatbooks of the boys, but I did recently create a Chatbook of photos of Luke since he loved reading the Chatbook of baby David at my parents house.

Luke has LOVED the book of himself, and I kid you not, I will find him quietly sitting in the playroom flipping through photos of himself from birth to about age two and ...