Most everyone takes photos of their children’s first ever day of school and often succeeding firsts.  What do you do with the photos and memorabilia afterwards?
These are ideal items for scrapbooks, shadow boxes, family memory pages, journals, fabric art, collages and other crafty projects.   You also can think back on your own school days and  create projects surrounding them.  For instance, I’m starting a blog on my One-Room School Heritage for my family.
Since this is Back-to-School Theme Week  at my Blisstree Parenting Posts, I thought discussion of some ways to save Back-to-School memories would be fun, too.  You also can involve …read more

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All this mention of lunch boxes in the giveaways we’re conducting at One Book Two Book brings to mind memories of my school days.  We used either a brown paper bag or metal lunch box.  (It seems metal lunch boxes are making somewhat of a come back.)
That’s all that was available then. If we were fortunate, we got a new one when school started. (With four in the family needing lunch boxes, book bags, pencil boxes, and clothes, new lunch boxes weren’t always in Mother’s budget.)
Many of these lunch boxes came with a thermos. (Occasionally Mother bought one separately.)  In these …read more