My mother’s birthday was last week, but this year I’m getting her something for her birthday and Christmas combined, so she’ll have to wait a few more weeks. I wanted to give her a little something on her birthday, though, so I made her a little 5X7″ photobook by pairing Christmas pictures of her three grandchildren with lyrics from Christmas songs. (She took almost all of the pictures… she is a great photographer and had her own business for a while!) I used a bunch of different digital scrapbooking supplies from the vast collection I amassed back when that was my main hobby.
I made a double-page spread for each year since 2004, and printed the book through Snapfish.
I also had 4X6″ prints made (a lot cheaper than the photobooks) and just put them in an album I already had to keep for myself. It was only AFTER I had given my mother her book that Parker and I were singing some of the songs (he has been asking to go caroling in our neighborhood and I am desperately trying to talk him out of it. We sing badly, both of us) that we noticed a typo. (That’s what I get for copying and pasting from the Internet… I thought I had proofread the songs, but not well enough.)
So… in the song “Winter Wonderland” we got to the verse that starts:
In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he’s a circus clown,
We’ll have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman,
Until the alligators knock him down.
ALLIGATORS! I was mortified, but Parker thought it was hilarious. And when I told him the real lyrics say “all the kiddies,” he thought I said “kitties,” and he’s so crazy about cats, that’s how he wants to sing it.
I’m tempted to make a little sticker to correct my mother’s book (and the one I made for my sister’s kids), but it might be just funny to leave it alone and see if they notice.
In other news, my husband was on the Martha Stewart Show today! (I missed it, though, because I was at work). She had him on to talk about the creative lunches he packs for Parker every day. (This morning, I was told I could have a few of the mini quiches he was making for breakfast/lunch, but “not the pretty ones” because those had to be photographed for his blog.)
Speaking of his blog, he’s running a contest now. Suggest a lunch for Parker, and you could win Matthew Mead’s new Holiday magazine. Check it out HERE.
That typo is hilarious! Frustrating for the gifts, but I think it might be worth the laughs =)
Those are great photos!
Ha! I would leave it, that’s a keeper for year’s down the road wen your kids are no longer little!