nostalgia: 2 babies, 1 shirt

What does one do with those baby clothes you just can't bear to get rid of? I'm trying to be really strict with myself as a I pass on and clear out items as Sunday outgrows them.
But when it comes to favourites, especially things both my girls have worn, I just can't do it.
Not yet.

Friday, August 2008, 14 months old

There's all kinds of tutorials on the web about framing baby clothes. Even framing them with favourite photos of your kids wearing them. I can't really imagine myself doing that, and then I really can't imagine where one would hang such a thing.

The nostalgia is all mine, not theirs, and while husband will share a fond smile I don't think he's emotionally invested enough to welcome a framed item of small clothing into our living room!

Perhaps if I had a sewing room?

Sunday, April 2011, 13 months old

I guess for now I'll keep this little shirt, and the other couple of things I can't bear to part with, safely tucked away. Taking them out every now and then to sniff, and stroke, and remember the divinity of those chubby little limbs.

We mothers are a soppy bunch aren't we? 

For some tips and ideas on keeping mementos, have a look at Martha Stewart's Memory Keeping Crafts and these two ideas from Ohdeedoh. Love that curio shelf!