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  • My husband has been working on a journal for the past 7 years about our DD. Its over 50 pages typed and covers events from school, holidays, birthdays, vacations, trips and several pages covering the day she was born. He wants to give it to her when she gets older after he has added a few more years to it. Wondering if she will really enjoy it and recognize the effort that went into it.

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    06.02.08, 12:49 PM [ Flag ]

    • That's a great thing. If she is old enough she may appreciate it.

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      06.02.08, 12:51 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • overachiever

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      06.02.08, 12:51 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I think she'll fully appreciate if/when she's a parent herself or maybe when she gets married. I wouldn't give it to her as a teenager.

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      06.02.08, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I am sure she will -- esp if he saves it for something like highschool or college graduation or something. if he gives it to her when she is 13 she may disappoint him in her response. but it is a wonderful loving thing to do and she will definitely be touched by it.

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      06.02.08, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Trust me, she will. I cherish a "baby book" my mom made for me thru ages 0-12.

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      06.02.08, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • she will when she has her first child

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      06.02.08, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • At age 8 she might not truly get it, but when she is older, it sounds like something she will cherish. What a sweet daddy.

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      06.02.08, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I would give it to her at her high school graduation. I think it is a beautiful gesture and I wish I had my act together to have done it for my dcs.

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      06.02.08, 12:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • wow. I think that is awesome. but she probably won't "get" it until she is much older

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      06.02.08, 12:53 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • interesting. I've been keeping a hand-written journal for our dd (who's 5), but haven't formalized it quite that much. she knows I'm doing it, and she's asked me to read parts of it already. I don't think about formally "giving" the books to her (there's two), they're just there for her to read through whenever she wants.

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      06.02.08, 12:53 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • ah, i'm jealous that you have a dh like this

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      06.02.08, 12:56 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • np: frankly he sounds like a freak, and overly involved in the dd, perhaps at the expense of the relationship with his DW. why else would she be posting here and asking if this is a good thing?

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        06.02.08, 01:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • are you using blurb.com to publish it? i'm going to do one for each year (so i say...).

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      06.02.08, 01:02 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I created a gmail account for my son when he was born five years ago. I send him email every once in a while. (Now his brother too.)

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      06.02.08, 01:05 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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