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About Emily Anderson & Her Blog
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My Favorite Family Activity
Our outings are usually not without stress (five kids under age seven), so probably our favorite thing to do is pizza night cuddled up watching a favorite movie — Cheaper by the Dozen or Nacho Libre. I really just enjoy making memories with my husband and kids, and going someplace extravagant and expensive is not what is important to us. A night at home will do just fine.
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How Blogging Changed My Family Life
Blogging has changed the way I view things. I tend to look at all things as an opportunity to catch and record a moment. I get my blog printed into a book every year, so now we have three years of blog books that are so fun to look back on. Had I not been blogging, I would never have recorded so many of those moments.
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A Unique Feature of My Blog
Every Thursday, I host a linky party called "Embrace the Camera." This all began when I was looking back through pictures one month and realized I was hardly in any of them. I then turned to pictures of when I was a child and realized that I hardly had any memories captured with MY parents. I wanted to change this for my kids. So, this challenges me to get in front of the camera at least once a week with one child or all of them. I've been doing this consistently since May 2010 and I have so many memories recorded now. AND, my kids will never be able to say, "You're not in any of our pictures." I realize most moms don't enjoy being in front of the camera, but when you think about doing it for your children, it changes things. They don't think those awful adjectives that you think about yourself — those thoughts do not even cross their minds. It's so important to record that we were actually here. Because one day, we won't be, and what will your family have left of you?
