My mom gave us a lovely gift for our anniversary this year: a copy of Our Family Book of Life. My sister and her husband received a copy as a wedding gift last year (note to self: buy card), and I was gushing over what a great idea it was, especially for a wedding present.
It's a keepsake book for recording the events on the family's sacramental life: weddings, baptisms and confirmations, ordinations.... There are commentaries on the Sacraments. There's places for photographs, and a place for recording the family tree. The entire book is rendered in calligraphy. The authors also have some suggestions for ways to use the book in family devotions.
I'm looking forward to starting our record and putting in some wedding and baptism pictures. I suppose we're no longer newlyweds, but this is our seventh anniversary, so that seems like a fitting year for such a beautiful gift.
I will just have to avoid any tempation to delay in the form of perfectionism, such as, oh, I must brush up on calligraphy before I start so I don't wreck the beautiful lettering in the book with less-than-perfect ordinary writing.
I want! I want! Actually, the good Brothers of the Printery house have a lot of nifty stuff I want! I just ordered a whole bunch of their blank note cards with 12th century woodcuts, mostly of the Holy Mother.They were like $4.00 a box!Did you Conception Abbey is the Abbey where that priest was killed by the crazed gunman last year? I didnt know that recently.