I've been creating family cookbooks since 2009.  I started for three reasons.  One, I wanted to create a holiday letter/present that I could share with friends and family each year.  Two, it was important to me to do something mom-like.  Virtually all the moms I knew were creating photo albums or scrapbooks or memory books.  I was working and had no time or inclination to do those things, and I felt I was cheating Zoe out of a record of her childhood.  Then, at that time, Zoe seemed to have little or no interest in cooking and I wanted to record our family favorites so they would always be available to her in the future.  (I now realize Zoe and I just have fundamentally different cooking styles.  She now really enjoys cooking.)  So the cookbooks were born.