It was not so long ago in the news: in corona time more photo books are being made.
Tip for today
From this year on, make it a special yearbook, instead of a photo book with only photos.
This will give beautiful memories for later for yourself and certainly for your children and who knows your grandchildren.
What to include?
- Pictures, not only of the ‘big’ moments, such as vacations and birthdays, but also of your everyday life.
- Pictures of what your environment looks like: with details of your house, the rooms, the dinner table, the rabbit’s cage, the way to school or work, in short: the daily happenings that are very natural. Actually so obvious and so ordinary that you don’t think about taking a picture of it.
- Photos your family has saved and the ones on social media that you also appear on.
- Pictures/stories of special news moments that have touched you (of course, Corona news will dominate, but probably also the presidential elections in the States, the fact that 2020 was a leap year, the Brexit, the fact that we finally have a government, Black Lives Matter, ….). Do you know that with some photo album softwares you can even include a movie. That works with a QR code.
- The best movies/series you saw, books you have read, and best songs of last year
- Funny or special anecdotes
- Letters or cards you received, other memorabilia…

This will require some work, I still have to get started. But don’t worry, within a few years, you’re going to leaf through this with a big smile on your face!
As for me, I’ve decided to start this tradition of a complete yearbook from now onwards. I will organise and select my best photos every month, I’ll take much more photos of the ‘obvious’, gather news facts and things that touch me, …
I sincerely hope that my yearbook of 2021 will be filled with pictures of parties, vacations, dinners, cuddles of friends, …