I knew I wanted to share about my pregnancy and where we lived in the book as well as the highlights of her first year. After all the time spent growing her was a pretty big moment in our life. So I had plans for four pages of information.
The first is a map of where we lived at the time she was born (we have since moved out of state twice).
I used a tourist map that had been sitting in our glove box for over a year and a half. Upon inspection I was able to cut it into a 12 x 12 square and was able to mark almost all the important places that I wanted to showcase.
I used scrap red paper, tooth picks, and glue to make the flags. I broke the tooth picks into thirds, and used the two pointy ends. Then I cut little triangles out of the red paper, wrapped the widest edge around the tooth pick enough to hold it into place and glued them together. Then I glued the flags into place.
I marked our home with a little house shape, used dotted lines to show the military base my husband was working at the time, used dotted lines to show our favorite walking trails (I walked almost everywhere while we lived in California- I miss being able to do that!), and used arrows to show the direction of places that we would go to often that weren't on the map.
I have flags showing:
The hospital Mia was delivered at
The movie theater we went to ofter
The shopping center
Other tourist-y places in the area
It was so easy to put together compared to the first page- lots less writing and it took a lot less time too! It's also my husband's favorite page in the book so far.
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