Travel Photo Journals

Don’t forget those travel photo journals!

January is a time for preparation and changes.
This month finds many people starting diets, setting goals as
well as budgets, and just giving themselves permission to
“start over”.

One area that I have chosen to focus on this year is my
box of photographs that have been neglected over the years.
I have been told it is best to start with your most recent
photographs and work backwards. The details of your most recent
photos are still fresh in your mind, and you are not as likely
to get overwhelmed.

For my family, our most recent pictures would be our Christmas
photos. There are so many things that you can do with photos now.
From calendars to mouse pads, your photos are easy to convert
to unique gifts to give for occasions throughout the year.

My favorite gift from my mom year after year is a photo calendar
that she lovingly assembles with photos from our entire family.
I hang this calendar over the changing table in my toddler’s room
and we talk about photos of his cousins, aunts, uncles,
and grandparents daily.

This can be a great “journal” of your family’s travels as well. If
you assemble a calendar for 2008 of your family memories
in 2007 and so on, it is fun to look at how your family changes
over the years and also what you were doing. If you use that
calendar to write important milestones or even daily or weekly
events, you also have a journal of your child’s life!

I encourage you to take photos of your family while traveling on airplanes and in airports. This photo is of my son-playing hide and seek in the airport gate area with a little German toddler.

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Taking photographs of the flight and the journey is an often-overlooked part of family
vacation photos – and can be great memories! The bottom photo is of me on my first international flight when I was only 3 years old. I treasure this photo and am glad that my mom always had the camera ready!