What My Child Is Reading

It has been stated many times the greatest gift we can give a child is a book. Selena got one great surprise this week. Are you familiar with Shutterfly? Well, we used it for the first time when we got back from vacation. I plan on using this site a lot for ordering photos, since I am terrible about getting to Walmart or someplace to get them ordered, so they just sit here in my computer. They offer photo processing, greeting cards, photo books and more.

When we got back from vacation I had a special offer from them for a free photo book, I just had to pay shipping and handling. I had all of our vacation memories turned into a book for Selena. When the mail man delivered the book, of course Selena was interested in what the package was. When I opened it, the first thing she saw was the Clock Tower from Spokane, she looked at me rather confused. I told her to go sit down and look at her new book. Her eyes about popped out of her face as she turned to the first page to see herself on the title page where it stated simply “Our Family Vacation, 2010.” She kept saying, “I never ever thought I would see me in a book!”

She has looked at the book over and over again, making up all sorts of stories about the people, things, and how much fun she had on her vacation. It has been so much fun to hear through her words what she remembers doing on vacation. Her descriptions are so full of joy and fun. I tried to keep the captions simple enough that she can read most of them on her own, but you know even if she can’t read them the pictures tell the entire story.

I can hardly get her to put the book down. She just loves it. We just love to hear her explain, “I never ever thought I would be in a book!”

Now for my review of Shutterfly. I really enjoyed my experience working with them. It was so easy to pick out the book I wanted, the hardest part was what pictures I wanted put in it. Their editing tools are great for picture placement and there is the option of writing in the book, captions or your own story. I did put captions in ours about many of the pictures. Their prices are reasonable, and they are always offering free photos, postage, and yes, this book was free. After ordering this book, I did receive 30 free prints. They let you know when your project is finished and shipped, the time of receiving the book was within 3 days.

The only draw back was that I truly could not get a feel for how my book would look like until I got it in my hands. Even with that said I was in no way disappointed. I know that we will be making many more of these little treasured memories.

I was not asked to do this review from Shutterfly. I did not receive this book for a review. I got the book from an offer that was in my email. Once you sign up at the site for an account you start receiving specials in your email.