And I like the way you scrap your letters to your daughter. They will make a wonderful book for her when she grows up!

I can see you are terribly in love with your husband! Great blending and design.

Love your little hearts! I wish I had been as aware when I had my children long, long ago. Great journalling, Kayleigh--and I love the name you chose for the baby!

First of all, you gotta take a million pictures to get one good one!!!! And you gotta take what you can get and laugh about it later! And, as an aside, my grandchildren don't know what I really look like without that camera, so I have to learn to put it down and just play with them!!! I love...

Great watermarks and design! Also excellent advice!

Love the simplicity of your layout and the orage background!

What a great story! I can see why you wanted to journal it! Love the stitching and, especially, the title.

Great template! And you are right--you don't realize how fast they are growing until you look at their pictures.

Kayleigh, you should make a book! Your layouts are wonderful and wise.

Breathtaking page! You are such a young mother to have become so wise! I wish I had realized all those things when I was raising MY babies.

Great journalling! Yes, we can take all of these layouts of what everyone learned and make use of the lessons! Love the font you used; it goes with the silly hat theme!

Fabulous journalling! Love the picture of your young self added to the page. (And that dog is beautiful!!!)

Wonderful! Love the stitching holding the note to self on there!

Journalling reads: If I had known then what I know now, Id have laid aside grading papers for other peoples children, cleaned house less, worried less about money, etc. and played with my children the way I play with my grandchildren. biograffiti_note2selfadd-DL-Oscraps font-Underwood...

Love the torn strip--I agree that it is so symbolic of what happened with your family when your husband deployed. I can't imagine bringing home a newborn without a husband's help. You are some woman! Thank you for giving up your husband at such an important time so that he could help keep...

Love your layout. You are wise beyond your years! When your children have moved on with their own lives, if you don't get to spend time together now, you won't know who that other person is who helped you raise your children!

I realized the importance of those pictures after my mother passed away almost five years ago. Now my kids, and especially my grandchildren, don't recognize if there is no camera in my hands! Now I just need to get someone to get pics of me! Great journalling, and I love the through-the-years...

You are on a roll, Girl! And so wise at your young age! I don't think I'll be that wise if I lived to be 100! At 17, as at my present age, I just had not a clue!

And you are very talented at that scrapping! Perfect life-lesson journalling! I love it!

Great journalling! So true! Love the way it's presented in your layout, and the elements you highlight it with are wonderful!