Emails To My Future Son: A Way to Preserve Memories

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While I was pregnant, I read an article about creating an email for your child and writing to them. I thought it was a great way to preserve memories. When the child is older, you’ll give him or her the password to the email. They’ll see all that you wrote and recorded for them. I finally started writing a couple of months before my son’s first birthday.

Creating an Email Address

Gmail makes it so easy to create an email address for your child or baby. I used Gmail since this is what we regularly use. I also cc’d the emails to me so I can save them in my own email in case something happened.

I usually write every couple of weeks about what events happened, what new things Avi has learned/done, dreams for the future, and funny moments like putting books in our hands to read to him. I’d attached pictures in every email so he could see what I’m talking about.

Gmail makes it so easy to look back at our photos to remember what happened. I back up my iphone photos to my Google photos then I can go back to see what photos to upload and also what has happened since I last wrote to Avi.

I can’t figure out how to share videos directly between Google photos and gmail but that’s ok because I’ve also added my son’s email to my Google drive family plan and I’ve shared my Google photos with him.

I like using the monthly paid storage for Google drive instead of my phone’s iCloud because it’s accessible across different devices and it’s easy to share the storage space with family members. The only hard part is I’d sometimes get lazy because nothing significant happened or I’d forget to write to him for a while.

Electronic Memories

So far, it’s been a good way for me to preserve memories to tell Avi in the future. I can quickly send an email to Avi from my phone while in bed or in the car when my husband picks me up from work. I don’t have to worry about printing photos, writing and making mistakes, or running out of space.

I initially wanted to create a baby book, journal or something physical for him. However, I did not want to add more junk in our house. I also figured it’s one less thing to bring with us when we move.

In addition, if there’s ever a fire or natural disaster, I can easily retrieve our photos and emails online. The only problems I can foresee are if someone hacked into our accounts (this is why you need strong and updated passwords, etc) or if the entire world’s servers go down (then it’s the end of the world!).

If we do have more children, I’ll create one email for each of them and send separate emails. I could also send them one big email too when there are events that involve all of them. Keeping memories like this may not be for everyone. However, this one way that may be useful for busy parents like me to keep track of our babies’ milestones. 

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