Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. Christmas is coming up quick, and I have a great thoughtful gift idea you could put together in a snap! I’ve mentioned before that my husband and I LOVE to travel. One Christmas he gave me the best gift to remember all the places we’ve gone. I thought I’d share with you in case you wanted to do something similar for Christmas this year.
He found a photo book deal going on and wrote up a little poem about all the fun places we’d traveled. He also included pictures of us from our travels and then created a world map and U.S. map marking the places and dates we’d been there.
Then he made a blank journaling page and put it as the remainder of the pages in the book. The blank pages include a spot for me to write the destination and date traveled, a few lines to write some memories, and a blank spot to include a picture of us there.
Now after each little trip, be it near or far (and lately they are NEAR since we are med students…), we include it in the book. I don’t write a ton of detail or put more than one picture since I do that on our family blog, but I love having a record of the places we’ve been all in one place.
Mixbook is having a FABULOUS deal on Groupon on photo books right now. Hop on over and make your own version of “The Places We’ll Go.” It is sure to be a hit and such a fun way to relive memories. And if you want another idea, pair it with 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and 1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die (this one has been more do-able for us!) and you can start crossing off the list and adding them to your book. My husband gave me both of these books WITH the above travel book and we love finding places to visit from the book.
After we’ve been somewhere, together, we mark it off in the book by writing the date we visited! {I REALLY hope I can make it to all of them…someday!}
Have you ever had a thoughtful gift made for you? Did you make one for your spouse? I’d LOVE to hear what you did!?!
