In addition to The Shopping Mama, I write a family blog about the new and exciting things the kids are doing that only a mother (or grandmother) could love. I don’t keep a scrapbook and hardly ever print photos any more. I’m become so reliant on the blog as a means of sharing images of the kids that I’ve become totally lazy about making something you can actually hold and flip through. I’ve often wondered if I could just save and print my blog posts to make a memory book that way.

A friend answered that question for me when she directed me to Blurb. I was familiar with the website because my sister-in-law gave me beautiful book of pictures of Toddler Boy she created there. Blurb has a program to “slurp” your blog into a real Blog Book. How cool is that?

Here’s the process:

* Download Blurb Booksmart software

* Blurb imports and maps blog text, images, comments, and links into professionally designed page layouts

* Edit your book as little or as much as you like

* Pick the type of book you want – hardcover, softcover, etc

* Place your order and then patiently wait a week to 10 days for it to arrive

Prices start at $13 for a 40-page book which seems totally reasonable but I wonder how many posts fit on a page. (I guess I’ll just have to order one to find out.)

I see a book of our family blog in my mom’s future.