Decorating for the Holidays

I'm so excited to be part of today's Decorating for the Holidays Blog Hop! Many thanks to The Frugal Housewife for hosting, and for the other bloggers who have made this a really fun experience. I've been introduced to several new blogs that I have now added to my list of "must reads" and I hope you have the same luck.

One of the things that I used to love to do, but really haven't had a chance to do in quite some time is to scrapbook. The idea of putting together our family stories so that we can remember them and share with others always made sense to me. I realized recently that my decrease in scrapbooking has been mirrored by an introduction to blogging and utilizing social media (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc). I'm still capturing the stories, the cute kid quotes and the silly photos...but now I am doing so electronically and publically. One of the tools I have started to use in 2009 is Whrrl. I can start my "story" from my phone and use mobile photos and text messages to really capture items while we are in the moment. You can also do so via their web site. Easy to embed (as you will see below) and to share. How have you used technology to share your stories?

The topic of the blog hop today was "Decorating for the Holidays". Well, we haven't quite started this in full effect, so I thought it would be fun to use this as an example of what you can do with Whrrl.

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So, please realize that this story is still in progress. Check back for more photos in this story throughout the week as we prepare our home for holidays!

Check out the next stop on the Decorating for the Holidays Blog Hop:  Insights From a Superhero's Mom! Hope to see you again here at Kids Meal Crowd.  

Edited on 12/15/09:
My apologies!  I thought I had set this post to publish on Monday, December 14th...but I ended up just saving a draft.  Thanks to all of you here for the Blog Hop -- I'd still encourage you to read this post and to visit the other wonderful blogs who were a part of this.