Yay! I finished Robin’s hospital scrapbook! I think it turned out well. I don’t have super-cute and involved layouts and decorations, but it’s still interesting to look at as well as read.
Here are a couple of my favorite pages. This first one I especially like because I used string to point to the things that were on Robin. I think this helped emphasize how bound he was and how it made people feel that he was unapproachable.
This one took a lot of time. At Doernbecher there was a family relations person who hosted luncheons and craft times. One of the things she had was “story beads”. She had made a list of common things families with babies in the NICU went through and paired a unique bead with each event. The idea was that you could string all these beads together to represent your child’s story. I decided to be super elaborate (of course) and made it a timeline. Each silver bead is a day starting with February 26th (the day I was put on bed rest). Each event I put immediately after the appropriate day. Finishing that up took a while (I just *had* to run to the bead store, now didn’t I?) but then, since it would be too thick and awkward in the scrapbook, I scanned the strand and deleted all the scanning junk around the beads before labeling all the beads! In the photo I’ve included the actual bead strand above the finished printed version. The strand will hang up in Robin’s room someday.
I’m leaving it out for a while so people can look at it, but then it’ll be packed away and brought out only once in a while until all the kids are older.