My mother loves whipping out photos of her grandchildren to show off to her other grandmotherly friends, and is often hounding me for photographs of Alex.  "You take so many!" she says, referring to the hundreds of photographs I post on my personal website and here on Blogging Baby.  "I never get any updated ones!  I need updated ones!"

Similarly, because we live so far away from my daughter Alex's birthmother, we don't get to see her as often as we used to.  And as I write this, I feel like I'm way overdue in sending her pictures of our family.

So tonight, as I was surfing the web for journal ideas, I came across this site that sells not only journals, but brag books -- small photo albums designed to be thrown into a purse or handbag, and whipped out at a moment's notice.  I love these leather polkadot ones (though not necessarily the price).  Looking at these beautiful albums, however, inspired me:

This year, for either Christmas, Mother's Day or birthdays, I think I'm going to give each of Alex's grandmothers, her godmother and her birthmother a brag book, filled with photos.  Actually, they don't even have to be filled, now that I think about it -- by leaving some of them empty, each special woman can add photographs of the other children in their lives who are important to them.  And clearly, small albums like these are available at photo shops, drug stores, art supply stores and many other locations, for a variety of costs.

I have no idea why I didn't think about this before.  Perhaps I just needed beauty and a stunning price to shock me into inspiration.