Amanda, I'm so sorry about your husband. How wonderful that your daughter has something to look at and treasure.
I started off making signatures over at the Signature Showcase message board on iVillage with Jamie, Katrina, Vanessa, Rochelle, Amanda and Jac. I had been buying/hoarding kits to make signatures with for a while but it wasn't until we had a challenge to make a signature using scrapbooking elements that I decided to try my hand at digital scrapbooking. That was April '07 and I've been hooked since. Might I also add that SSD was my first home.