Kids’ Birthday Interviews

On your kid’s birthday, ask him twenty questions and write down the answers.  Make one page opposite the birthday interview page that includes a picture of him that year.  Each year, ask the same questions and make the picture page to go along.  Keep them over the years to see how they change over time.  Eventually, you’ll have one scrapbook that covers all that luscious growing up!  I’ve made a birthday interview printable in case you want to use the questions I use with your own kids.

Okay, now get ready, because I’m going to TESTIFY!  {Entering soapbox now}  When I was 13 I went to a bride’s night for our church youth group.  We were teenage girls with a mission: plan our dream weddings in under an hour (and we didn’t have Pinterest!).  We all had little forms we filled out about our dream future wedding.  We clipped pictures from bridal magazines.  We gushed over beautiful dresses and jewelry.  We giggled over the qualities our future men would have.  And we wrote it all down!  I still have mine.

Here are just a few of my 13 year-old answers:

What will your colors be?  Pink and white, but mostly pink

What style of ring do you want?  A big, fancy rock

Who will perform the ceremony?  My dad

Where will your honeymoon be?  A world tour where we visit every country

What food will you serve?  Everything.  Pizza, pop, cake, pig in a blankets.  Everything.

Have I convinced you?   You have to write this stuff down people!  This little piece of paper is priceless to me!  I love hearing my 13 year-old voice!  I love that pizza and pig-in-a-blankets pretty much qualified as “everything” to me!  I love that I didn’t even know the names of the cuts of diamonds, or have any clue about who officiated at weddings, but I was certain that my Dad was at the center of my world.  I love that in my 13 year old dreams I’d have deep enough pockets to travel to every country.  Almost none of my answers came true at my real wedding, but by then I had changed.  I grew beyond needing a fancy rock and a world tour, and having it written down not only helped me see my growth, but also gave me more than a few grins and chuckles.  I have stories to tell my daughters as they dream about their weddings.  By the way, I did get married in the exact place I had dreamed of, my dress was very similar to the one I cut out, and my husband has all the qualities I was looking for in a man and more.

Moms out there, write this stuff down!  They’re only little a little while.  {Exit soapbox.}

Hope you enjoy the birthday interview printable, and have lots of fun making and preserving awesome memories with your kids!