Imperfect Memory Keeping
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
From deserted baby books to the tens of thousands of photos sitting on our phones, it’s easy to feel perpetually behind in memory keeping. Today, as we talk about the challenges of commemorating all the milestones, we also share our imperfect wins and how our approach has drastically changed since becoming first-time moms. Katie has a revelation about redefining what is actually worth remembering, while Ashlee shares her desire to capture the “essence” of her kids instead of data. We’ve come to the conclusion that a) we need to lower our expectations, and b) the chaotic, silly, and in-between moments are the ones that actually make up our lives. We hope this episode inspires you to keep doing your best—via quick notes jotted in a journal or by leaving the camera on the counter—to make those everyday memories the ones you keep.
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. |
| 0:07.2 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:12.7 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:16.9 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | Hey, friends, welcome to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | And Merry Christmas, in case we forget to say that later. |
| 0:35.1 | This is our last public episode of the year, but we do have |
| 0:39.2 | one more episode going out later this month in Substack, which is my sneaky little way of reminding |
| 0:44.8 | you that we have a whole bunch of bonus episodes over there if you would like to support |
| 0:50.0 | our work. And a big, huge end of the year, thank you to all of you who already do. I am here with |
| 0:56.9 | Katie today. Hello, friend. Hi. Hi, everyone. And we are going to be talking about memory keeping. |
| 1:04.8 | That phrase alone might send you into a tailspin of anxiety and mom guilt, conjuring up images of, you know, unfinished baby books |
| 1:14.0 | and iPhones with 23,000 photos on them. You have not organized or printed, which if that's |
| 1:20.3 | you, Solidarity Sister, because that is us as well. It sure is. In fact, I was just telling Ashley |
| 1:26.9 | the other day that out of six children, |
| 1:29.8 | one of them has like some semblance of a baby book. And really, I can't even fully call it that |
| 1:36.3 | because it was a Christmas gift for Harper's grandma on Harper's, like she was born December 6. So like that Christmas, it was sort of |
| 1:47.0 | right after her first birthday. So I made a photo album to give to her grandma. That counts. |
| 1:54.6 | And does that, does it? Yeah, sure, sure. I think that's the only like quote unquote baby book, but all organized |
| 2:02.2 | curation of photos more or less stopped for me after that, which is just another area of my |
| 2:07.3 | life with six children where I've had to like grossly lower the expectations. |
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