Family Heirloom Growth Chart

I’ve always loved the idea of charting children’s growth on the door frame so when I was just pregnant with Big J, I told Michael that I wanted to do that for our kids. When Big J learned how to stand on his own, I kept thinking that we needed a cool way to document those little hash marks of growth without risking the chance that we would lose those memories if we needed to paint the house or we would need to leave them behind if ever we needed to move somewhere. Surely, I started shopping for growth charts. I ran across all kinds of them: vinyl, paper, plastic, wood etc. But most of them were either gender specific or too colorful. I wanted something simple, gender-neutral, sturdy and timeless. Something like an heirloom.

So I think my heart skipped a beat when I saw the Skowhegan Wooden Rule, a 78″ heirloom quality giant ruler on Amazon. We use a permanent marker to mark the lines accompanied by name and age.
 

We placed the ruler in the hallway right outside the rooms of the boys. It will be a special item that I know we’ll have forever.