Good question - even many partnered moms are not in the photos because they are too busy taking the photos. I don’t have anyone to do it - and my kids being teens means they’d rather clean their room than have their picture taken (ok, a slight exaggeration). The photos are few and far between these days, but when we do have them, I make sure they are good ones!

While I’m currently only using disposable cameras (I usually buy several at a time or an economy pack), I take pictures of every major event in my daughter’s life (e.g., her birthday, holidays, her participation in a pageant, her first day of preschool), then I label them and put them in individual mini albums. These keep our pictures organized, they take up very little space, and most important, make it easy to locate the pictures from a particular event when I need to! I have these mini albums lined up like books on a shelf in our family room and they’ve become quite a conversation piece when family nd freinds come over, plus they’re easy to travel with.