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"Mother Load" - Page 2


© Jody Hart Lehrer
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Jun 26, 2000


In addition to the journals, I keep extensive, fat, almost-bursting, scrapbooks with all of Hannah's "art" from daycares to preschool, to creations made at home and abroad!

Finally, I am a serious photo-scrapbook keeper and, in fact, am teaching classes on scrapbooking in my spare time (what spare time?). There are three full oversized photoalbums, decorated with colorul background papers, die cuts, stickers, stenciling, hand-cut designs, caligraphy, and more depicting Hannah from her birth onward.

I know that I am zealous about this archiving business, but I want Hannah to know that should God strike me down tomorrow, she and I spent thousands upon thousands of hours of time together as mother and daughter. This, my new friends, is as it should be. Enjoy your daughters!

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