Time Capsule Club + the Art of Coming Back to Our Memories
I did something recently that had been sitting on my mental to-do list for at least a couple of years.
I finally printed photos.
A while back, I signed up for a monthly photo printing service, thinking it would keep me accountable about printing my personal work. You may have even seen me talk about it on Instagram. And then… I didn’t really use it. Life got busy. The credits piled up. The memory boxes stagnated.
December arrived and I realized I had a mountain of print credits about to expire. So I sat down and combed through family photos from the last several years.
What I found surprised me.
Photos that tugged on my heartstrings.
Moments I had completely forgotten I’d captured.
Trips we’d taken that had slipped into the cracks of my memory.
Tiny details that felt huge once I held them in my hands.
Holding those prints reminded me of something I already knew, but needed to feel again: memory-keeping doesn’t have to be perfect or consistent to matter. It just has to be returned to—again and again—in small ways.
Making memory boxes for my kids will probably always drift toward the bottom of my priority list. There are seasons when they stay untouched for far too long. But I’m really glad I keep coming back to them.
Because even though they slip through the cracks and don’t get updated for a couple of years at a time, they do get updated. I won’t be starting from scratch when my kids are teenagers and my whole heart wants them to have our memories in a box they can carry with them.
And that realization is what sits at the center of the work I do.
WHY I CREATED THE TIME CAPSULE CLUB
Most families don’t forget to document their lives because they don’t care.
They forget because life is full.
Because the calendar fills up.
Because remembering to book the session becomes another invisible task floating in the background.
Time Capsule Club exists so families don’t have to start from scratch every year—or rely on “we’ll do it someday.”
When you’re in the club, you don’t have to remember to reach out. You don’t have to re-decide every year. I make sure the photos get taken. Quietly. Consistently. Year after year.
Not for perfection.
Not for highlight reels.
But so that, someday, when you sit down with a box of prints in your hands, you’re reminded of the life you were actually living—not just the moments you thought to save.
AN INVITATION (FOR RETURNING FAMILIES)
Time Capsule Club is available to families I’ve already worked with.
It’s not something I open widely or often—it’s intentionally small and steady. A long-term way of documenting your people as they are right now, without urgency or pressure.
If you’re a returning client and this season of life feels like one where you’d appreciate that kind of consistency, I’d love to have you in the club.
And whether or not it’s the right fit, if you ever want advice about building memory boxes, printing photos, or finding your way back into your own family archive—I’m always just an email away.
Because coming back to our memories, again and again, is its own quiet kind of care.