How to Put an Ex-Husband into Your Children's Scrapbook Albums

Divorce is a common thing now days and so is scrapbooking but to put the two together isn’t always an easy thing. If you have already started the albums before the divorce you may have the urge to go back and redo the pages. You may not have started a scrapbook at all and want to start but are unsure of how to use the photos that contain your ex-husband because of what your child is doing. Because he is their father it’s not easy to cut him out of everything and for your child’s sake, don’t cut him out of everything. These steps will help you to put your ex-husband into your child’s album without having him in the center of it all the time.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

How to Put an Ex-Husband into Your Children's Scrapbook Albums

1. First thing in putting your ex-husband into the album is to not take away from your child’s past events. For example if you had a family picture taken just minutes after your child was born, not putting that picture in or cutting your ex-husband out of the picture will keep your child from seeing this moment in their life.
2. Next, if you don’t want to have your ex-husband be the center of the page, look for photos of the event where he’s in the background and not center stage with your child. Depending on the number of photos from the event this can be an easy thing to do. If you don’t have many photos of the event and a relative does, look through their photos and make copies of them for your album.
3. When you’ve picked out the photos that you want to use, put the other photos you won’t use into storage and safe them for a time later in the child’s life to give the photos to them. This will allow your child to have the photos you didn’t use and you won’t ever have to look through them again if you don’t want to.
4. When you have your photos and page done for a certain event and you’re doing the journaling keep it positive. Depending on the photos and event you may have to write something about your ex-husband, keep it positive and focused on the child. For example, when your ex-husband held your child for the first time, he was probably extremely happy and very proud, you don’t want your child to miss how their father reacted to their birth.
5. Once you have completed all the events that included your ex-husband your child will have a glimpse into their past when the two of you were together. It will make them happy to know some of the things they did when they were little and not miss any important event since you put your ex-husband into your child’s scrapbook album.