Re: photos

[Guest guest]

<snip>I've plastered the walls with pictures. Pictures of family,

friends, places she's loved and visited, and pictures of the past.

My husband kind of looks at me incredulously whenever I purchase a

new frame to put more pictures on the wall - but it's the one thing

that I can give her that I know will stay where it is put - and will

perhaps mean something to her.<snip>

When you run out of wall space (LOL) you can do what I did. I brought

a plain white pillow case to one of those places that copies photos

onto T-shirts and coffee mugs. And then mom's pillow on her bed had a

family portrait on it. My mother loved that pillow.

<snip> Old photos are the most valuable to me. So I am in the

process of working on putting together a photo album for her to have

at her place that includes lots of the old photos - of when she was a

teenager, early married life, early family, etc. I think those will

mean more to her than any of the rest of the stuff. You know? <snip>

Ditto to me to. I went through the bulk of mom's pictures and picked

the cream of the crop photos (over 100) and had them scanned onto CD

for family + had paper colored-copies made onto 8 1/2 x 11 paper and

made an album from a 3-ring binder (the front cover of the binder had

a slot for one image and I put the family portrait shot there) - it

allowed her album to be left in the nursing home without fear of

losing valuable pictures b/c they were just copies. I had some of the

best visits with my mom as we looked through that album together.

And then with those pictures I had that mini-movie made. My folks

LOVED pictures and even with divvying them out to my siblings & I --

have a HUGE trunk of priceless photos. I think they were a little too

camera happy...