Mothers are the record keepers. Father's are record keepers too but I know mostly mothers who are the record keepers. I have to admit that I do an eye roll when I hear of how photo shooting and video taking take a person out of the moment and it's better to live it than record it. Maybe. As a mother, I can now say, that it is only in being completely present that you can capture most of what you capture. It's something we find in the art of many photographers. This is not to say that all photos mother's take are museum worthy images, what we choose to write about, not of much interest maybe to those out of the inner circle but it's not for anyone else, it's for us. 

These days, when I read what a mother has written about her day or see photos of a child through his day, I am interested and grateful. These are baby books, family films, Christmas letters all given away. While I have heard and read how harmful, annoying, boring, even dangerous it can all be, I stay interested because I always have been. I read and re-read my baby book and wanted to see my husband's when I discovered he had one filled. I once collected vintage 8mm and super 8mm films of family vacations that happened long before I was ever on earth.  I will stop and listen to anyone's family stories and a family tree is always fascinating to me. 

It is a generalization but... it seems that mother's can be counted on to write and save {things}while fathers will photograph and capture the sounds, movement and images on any device that is available to them. Trying to save a moment in time that will never come back of the person who carries your own heart. It's not an easy job to be the record keeper. I go over the day in my head before I fall to sleep. Like a mint after a satisfying dinner, a little explosion of sugar. But our minds go, media fades, the stories become lost, the family trees end...but I find pieces of some here and there and save it, read it, listen, watch someone else's memories for them. Babies, families, struggles, love, life. How can I not be interested.