My daughter wrote a remarkable piece on her blog site "shadesofgrey" about journaling and the impact it has on her life and who she is as a person. I loved reading it. She is so real and such a remarkable person. I commend her for journaling over the years. She has such a gift for writting and poetry.
Her post got me thinking of my own journaling or lack of. I don't journal enough because it is hard for me to put into words what I'm thinking and usually goes down on paper different than I feel at the time.
My particular kind of journaling is made up of several different scrapbooks that I have done over the years. Pictures do tell a story, however; they don't tell the struggels that get us from one happy picture to the next. Frankly for me I choose to look at my photos rather than read any journaling I may have kept in the past because it depresses me. I mostly complained and whinned a lot. I have had some pretty heavy challenges raising a family and staying married. Years ago I decided to keep a journal by my bed where at the end of a crappy day I write down all of my blessings of that particular day. I feel so much better about myself, my kids my husband and my life.
Speaking of pictures/photos; in 1990 I went to my first scrapbook-journaling class. I enjoyed it so much that I bought my first 2 scrapbooks. A green one for Clint's photos and a pink book for Lacey's photos. From there I did a scrapbook for each of my other three children. I loved scapbooking so much that I put together a binder for each one of my kids with all their school work and art that I had saved all through their elementry years.
Over the years I have also finished 4 scrapbooks of our family for Lance and I. A scrapbbook of our wedding and a scrapbook of our Cook Family Campouts. I did a fun scrapbook out of lunch sacks for Lance one Father's day of all the kids. I have a book of my friends and the fun things we do. A book of all our family traditions. A book of each one of our grandchildren, and did a scrapbook compiled of all the odd pictures left over that I didn't know what else to do with and titled it "Our Kids At A Glance". I put together a cute gospel scrapbook for my grandkids when they come to visit and started a book of my childhood and a book of all mine and Lances trips to Oklahoma. I enjoy scapbooking so much especially with my daughtes and friends. I will probably scapbook til I'm too old to see and too crippeled to use my hands. Also I hope to continue to journal my blessing, because I am blessed and need to remind myself daily.
Her post got me thinking of my own journaling or lack of. I don't journal enough because it is hard for me to put into words what I'm thinking and usually goes down on paper different than I feel at the time.
My particular kind of journaling is made up of several different scrapbooks that I have done over the years. Pictures do tell a story, however; they don't tell the struggels that get us from one happy picture to the next. Frankly for me I choose to look at my photos rather than read any journaling I may have kept in the past because it depresses me. I mostly complained and whinned a lot. I have had some pretty heavy challenges raising a family and staying married. Years ago I decided to keep a journal by my bed where at the end of a crappy day I write down all of my blessings of that particular day. I feel so much better about myself, my kids my husband and my life.
Speaking of pictures/photos; in 1990 I went to my first scrapbook-journaling class. I enjoyed it so much that I bought my first 2 scrapbooks. A green one for Clint's photos and a pink book for Lacey's photos. From there I did a scrapbook for each of my other three children. I loved scapbooking so much that I put together a binder for each one of my kids with all their school work and art that I had saved all through their elementry years.
Over the years I have also finished 4 scrapbooks of our family for Lance and I. A scrapbbook of our wedding and a scrapbook of our Cook Family Campouts. I did a fun scrapbook out of lunch sacks for Lance one Father's day of all the kids. I have a book of my friends and the fun things we do. A book of all our family traditions. A book of each one of our grandchildren, and did a scrapbook compiled of all the odd pictures left over that I didn't know what else to do with and titled it "Our Kids At A Glance". I put together a cute gospel scrapbook for my grandkids when they come to visit and started a book of my childhood and a book of all mine and Lances trips to Oklahoma. I enjoy scapbooking so much especially with my daughtes and friends. I will probably scapbook til I'm too old to see and too crippeled to use my hands. Also I hope to continue to journal my blessing, because I am blessed and need to remind myself daily.
