Nanny to Mommy

Would you like your kids to know more about their family and the ones who came before? Or, perhaps, you want to find an activity that can be encouraging for both you and your child? Learning about your family history is a great way to find out more about your roots and spend time together. But how to organize it? Building a family tree is a perfect option if you want to tell your family story in an unusual way and get children to know about their heritage.

Today, we’re going to tell you more about the idea of making a family tree and share some tips with you!

In today's tech-obsessed society, social media platforms may be the ideal venue for virtual travelers around the world to see the world's beauty, but to travel is about so much more than grabbing that perfectly balanced Instagram photo. Traveling should be interesting and worthwhile. It should enthrall and continue to inspire you, refresh the pages of your life for rejuvenation and high ground you, also continue to educate and challenge you, and most importantly, humble you. Travel provides us with our most memorable, fascinating, remarkable, unique stories, most treasured memories, and innumerable irreplaceable lessons that we might choose to pass on to someone else. It teaches people like us about ourselves and each other; it broadens our perspectives and forces us to refocus on what is important, much like a reset button. Traveling is an experience in life that you will never be able to duplicate in your tiny hometown. It gives us a different, wider perspective on how others live, greet each other, eat, converse, and quarrel, whether joyful or sad. We often form opinions based on things we've never personally experienced. We open the door to these kinds of experiences by traveling long distances; some are perilous, such as white-water rafting or trekking Everest, but for others, one thing is important: you experience something new.

Back at the very beginning of December, my family and in-laws got professional pictures taken for the first time in a while. They were absolutely stunning. If you follow me on Instagram, then you have seen some of them sporadically.

Right now, things are so around here for me and the kiddos. We are homeschooling and that has taken up a big chunk of time, but I am also purging, reorganizing, and re-decorating all the things! I recently had the opportunity to work with CanvasOnDemand for a few canvas prints. I used the images from our family photoshoot and am absolutely in love with how they turned out!

Although I am an affiliate for Shutterfly, I have been using them to make beautiful creations for years. I have been using Shutterfly to create lasting memories that I absolutely love. I love that you can stack coupons and they always offer great freebies. Like, ew customers can get a Free 8x8 Photo Book just for signing up and right now you can get free prints if you order through their app. How amazing is that?

I get all my prints from them. And I make a wall calendar for my father-in-law almost every year so he can have beautiful, quality pictures of his grandkids in his office as well as a very useful item that even has everyone's birthday already on it. I have created so many other beautiful photo gifts as well.

I have been working hard on getting better about printing pictures this year. I'm scared that technology will change and I won't be able to see my beautiful memories that I love so much. My favorite gift to give my family members is photo gifts of the kids. That way they can have the pictures they have been asking for, but in a fun new way.


Turn your photos to canvas with CanvasChamp. Their photos on canvas are great for decorating your home or office and perfect as photo gifts! They have a fairly easy to use canvas prints designer. I do wish that it would tell you whether you had a high enough resolution picture to fit the canvas frame that you would like.

This post is sponsored by TreeRing Memories. All opinions are my own.

So the mommy guilt is real in our house. Like seriously. My daughter has a beautifully detailed and decorated baby book filled with her firsts down to the exact day included with a picture. Pictures? Yeah I use to print TONS when she was a baby. But my son? I take a ton, but they aren't printed out and his baby book is only half filled because I never wrote stuff down. But I have found a cool app that helps eliminate "mommy/daddy guilt" - we all get so busy and although we snap a ton of pictures of our kiddos, it's often hard to compile them into memory books for them to look back on. TreeRing Memories helps remedy this issue.

TreeRing Memories focuses on helping moms with three specific problems:

I love giving personalized creations for Mother's Day. We live in an age where we don't print pictures anymore, but it is something that is still so important to do. Since Mother's Day is coming up and my mother-in-law casually mentioned that she really liked photobooks and that she really doesn't have very many printed pictures of the grandchildren. So I decided to make her one with Mixbook.

When creating a photobook, the thing I loved the most was how many different options there were to create the perfect photobook. Each page can be customized in a way so you can always create a different book each time. Even if you choose one of their start templates and auto add your pictures, you can still customize it in any way you like.

I received complimentary products to provide this post. All opinions are my own.

I received complimentary products to provide his post. All opinions are my own.

I received complimentary products to provide this post. All opinions are my own.

 

"AdoramaPix helps people turn their digital photographs from abstract computer files into beautiful keepsakes designed to last a lifetime. Their contemporary metal prints capture memories in rich color and vibrant detail. Because your images are infused right into the metal, and not painted on the surface, their metal prints are extremely durable. Not only will your metal image be water and weather proof, but scratch resistant as well. You can even clean it with glass cleaner. Your memories deserve to live in true, archival luxury with AdoramaPix metal prints."

 

These products are featured in our 2015 Holiday Gift Guide.

I don't know about you, but I am terrible about printing off my pictures. But I LOVE photo gifts! Especially quality canvas prints. So I was very excited to receive the opportunity to review a canvas print from CanvasPop. CanvasPop is an online printing company with a huge passion for quality art, photography and home décor.


I love that you can print photos from Facebook, Instagram, or upload from your computer. You can also select an option for them to edit the crop to best fit your needs. They also will send you a picture of your print to make sure it looks great on canvas. They also supply the hardware needed to hang your canvas, which is simply amazing because I know as soon as I receive my canvas print I can hang it on my wall.