Family Interviews for Fun
January 21, 2009 in Family Life
I thought it would fun to sit down and do a little interview with Lane.
The questions started with a few favorites: movie, food, drink, color, clothes, and place to go. (Lane’s favorite food? Snack. Love it.) I also asked:
- What do you like to play?
- What do you like about Mommy?
- What do you like about Daddy?
I wanted to make this a family tradition, so Doug and I answered interview questions too. It was fun to see what we answered the same. (Favorite TV Show? The Office. Food? Sushi. Place to Go? Get coffee.)
For us I also included the questions:
- What things are awesome?
- What do you like to look at?
- What are you looking forward to this year?
- What was great about last year?
- What do you like about each family member?
I am looking forward to doing this each January, and keeping the pages in a collection.
My friend Lynette found this idea at Let’s Explore and passed it along. Lynette does other fun things too, like throwing a kids’ pajama party in the morning, so all you have to do when your kids wake up is put them in the car and go to a party. So fun!
There are a lot of ideas that I read about and bookmark for later, but then don’t have time for. I want to encourage you to try something this week that you’ve been wanting to do!
Oh, I love this idea. Thank you so much for sharing it. I am such a sentimentalist-scrapbooker and this is perfect.
Thank you so much. (can you tell I’m sappy about this kind of stuff?)
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I’m gonna start doing something like this.
Fun! Last year we bought blank board books and each child made a book about himself. We had a page for his birth story, one for how he’s like other family members, one for what he wants to be when he grows up…it was really fun, and a great keepsake!
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It’s so funny you would post on this. Last night my husband was ‘interviewing’ our daughter. He asked her what Mommy’s favorite color is: pink, Daddy’s favorite color: blue, the cat’s favorite color: black (he IS black), her favorite color: red. Then … she told him that she’s the princess, Mommy is the queen, Daddy is the king, and the cat is the clown!
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What a fun idea. How great it would be to see these answers evolve over the years. and the hand prints grow! Why do they have to grow so fast??
What a neat idea! Thanks for sharing.
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That is a great idea! The funny answers are always the best!
This is a great idea!
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Cute idea! What a neat keapsake! This would be a cute scrapbooking memory to include on a scrapbook page.
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This is a great idea and you’ll be glad later. I have a memory box for both of my kids. Over the years I have placed notes they wrote, school papers, funny things they said that I wrote down, artwork, etc.
It is a representation of their past. I am still adding to it and our oldest is in college.
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Great idea. My daughter, who loves to talk, would loooove this.
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We do this sometimes, too! Another question we like to ask is, “If you could name yourself, what would your name be?”
We also do Father’s Day & Mother’s Day interviews:
* What’s the best thing about Daddy?
* What’s the worst thing about Daddy?
The answers are hilarious. (The worst thing about Daddy this year was “all those ratty t-shirts.” Yep.)
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“sitting on mommy’s lap” and “daddy’s here” . . . oh my gosh! PRECIOUS! This is a darling idea. Thanks for passing it along.
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It’s amazing how much our children change over the years, yet how much they stay the same. I was just reading in my little girl’s baby book (she just celebrated her 3rd birthday) and I read about how when I was pregnant with her she used to get into the most uncomfortable positions, and when I’d try to move her she would kick me.
Reading that, I had to laugh because now that she’s 3, she has perfected the art of saying the word, “Mo-OM!” and she is as stubborn as they come. Everything is, “No, Mommy, I do it mySELF!” So, simply put, she is the same at 3 years old as she was in the womb. It’s her way or the highway (well, as much as Mommy lets her get away with it!)
What a great idea to do an interview with your little one. I think I may try to do that with mine once a year (maybe around their birthdays?) and stick it in their baby books.
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Truly an awesome & easy project :>
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This is fantastic! I think I will have my budding journalist take this idea and make it her own! I love it!
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i am always grateful for my grandpa, who used to record a radio show in his house – so he had the mics and everything, who would record us annually… some are embarrassing to listen to – but i love that we have those old tapes! now we try to remember to get our kids recorded, too.
I like the simplicity of your questions! I (this year) started doing this on my kiddo’s birthday, along with a handprint. I am such a perfectionist, though, always trying to ask too many questions, etc. Even the simple is a great keepsake!
And Kelli’s comment reminds me of another keepsake idea–last year I recorded myself reading books to the kiddos–with the idea then they could listen to stories even if I couldn’t read to them. It turned out to be really neat, because their voices are in the background, I had them say their names and ages, and sing a couple favorite songs. I need to get the recorder and do it again!
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I love this idea. I think I will try it with my twins!
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what a fabulous idea! i love it! i do all sorts of keepsake activities with my kids, but hadn’t thought to actually interview them to record this information!
nicola
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Love this!
(And could your handwriting be more perfect?)
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I saw this post on Let’s Explore and I really want to do this with my kids…
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Would it be weird to do this with the dog? Of course every question would be “cookies.”
such a great idea!!
I LOVE this…I’m gonna do it this weekend, what a great idea!
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