Would this make you laugh or feel uncomfortable. I need a MN consensus.

[florentina1]

We get on really well with our kids and their partners. They are arranging a celebration for a significant anniversary for me and DH. 10 years ago we all went away for my birthday and they gave me a photo album filled with pictures from my life.

DH thought it would be ‘a laugh’ to give them a similar album each. Covering their babyhood to marriage. I don’t know if it is a good idea.
I know that we should know our own kids but we seem to have different ideas about how it will be received.

I think it sounds great! My mum gave me one of those To My Child books for my birthday when I was pregnant, it was all about her life and her pregnancy and my childhood. Most of it was lovely but there were some difficult things in there about my teenage mistakes so I don’t like to look at it anymore as it makes me uncomfortable which is a shame, as there’s loads of great pictures in there.

I’m already collating photos for both my kids. Idea is to give them an album when they’re 18 or 21. People don’t have photos printed anymore, all our photos are on computer. So this is going to be a tangible gift.

My aunt did it for her granddaughters 18th birthdays, but I’d already started.

I think it is lovely and don’t understand why it’s a “ laugh “

I think its a wonderful idea. Ending with a wedding shot and a nice comment is lovely too.

I think it’s lovely, as long as they are nice photos. My mum did this for me for my 40th and 50th birthdays, and I love the albums.

Not quite the same but for my DM's 80th birthday we had a large family party - we've loads of extended family of all ages. We asked them to bring a favourite photo of themselves/their family etc and we pegged them onto a line along one wall of the venue (all named on the back). Everyone loved this, proved a great talking point and generated much laughter - especially the 80s perms and shoulder pads!
The children couldn't believe what there relatives had looked like when young. Most lovely and very poignant, some cousins included photos of their parents, DM's siblings now dead and this just felt right.

A long post, not really relevant but I simply wanted to echo what others have said ... it is a lovely idea and i am sure will be greatly appreciated and treasured.

Just don’t do what my MIL did for my DH’s 40th birthday album and in an album of 200 photos exclude all but (I think) three in which I appear, two of those being graduation class or university ball morning after survivors’ mass photos.

Given that DH and I have been a couple since we were teenagers, and hence I was there at all family birthdays, weddings, graduations, as well as all his special occasions, it took a lot of selectivity and careful cropping to render me so invisible. The only individual photo in which I appear is one where I’m holding our newborn, and it’s captioned ‘Granny’s New Arrival’.

Yes do it!