I mentioned in an earlier post that I had ordered a book of my blog from www.blog2print.com. Well, I got it a couple of days ago, and I love it! It literally only took a couple of clicks to make, and it had every blog post I had written for a year. I could’ve taken posts out, but I left them all in. I also could have added the comments in the book, and next time, I probably will. One other thing I might change next time: there’s an option to either condense all of the pictures onto the end of each post, or print them where they actually were in each post. Doing the former saves you some money, because I guess printing the post as it is would require more pages. And I don’t know what the price difference would have been, but I think it would probably be worth it.

Speaking of price, the base price for (I believe) 20 pages is about the same as a regular photo book. And if the page number goes over that, it’s a small price per extra page. I ended up with over 120 pages, and it really didn’t cost that much. If I had made a scrapbook of all of those memories, it would have cost a small fortune for all of the supplies. Plus, it probably never would have been finished. Or included half of the things the book does. And I could have split it into smaller books, but I don’t really know why I would….that would also cost the same (or more).

What I got about two weeks after I ordered it was a beautiful, hard cover book (and not hard cover with a paper cover that will get ripped up in a week….the picture and design are printed directly onto the hard cover) with all of the pictures and stories I had published. I will DEFINITELY be doing it again when the time comes.

Oh, and it is a lot of fun to go back and read things I wrote a year ago, or even two months ago. Like the first time the big two had a “camp out” with T. Because that was the beginning of the end….Ivy now asks at least every other night if she can sleep with daddy, which they do probably once every weekend.

And now I have a permanent record (the good kind) of the last year. Really cool.