memory keeping - inspired by Shawni

My good friend SHAWNI POTHIER is my major inspiration for getting started blogging.  I remember a few years back on the first day of school she had just posted (that morning) her children getting on the bus and blogged about how she felt and had the picture to go with it!  Not only was it journal-ed for her but those who love her family so dearly could experience it and feel close!   I was so amazed by the immediacy of the memory being journaled!  I knew this was something I needed to figure out and start journaling now while I still remembered the details.   We all have the thought that ...."someday I'll journal about our life"..."I'll just take the pictures and then go back"......or maybe not even get those pics!! 

Thanks Shawni for being that inspiration!  I've been blogging ever since!

Loved her post of recent and the MANY great things she is doing to make those memories come alive on pages.

A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE MEMORY KEEPERS......
One of the things I so love that we do occasionally is have our kids write in these journals after a vacation.   Getting their perspectives about the vacation is very interesting.  I have found over the years that they remember things I didn't.  I learn what was special to them.  Usually the most simple of things.



In the very same book we also have them write using this prompt.....  "how do you see the Lord's hand in your life".  This last one is something we have tried to make a tradition on Sundays.  
This prompt was an idea given to us by one of our apostles,  Henry B. Eyring.  He said that he had filled in a journal each day of his life answering this question and felt like he was blessed for realizing his own blessings that he could see the Lord providing him each day.  He encouraged us to follow.
More Gratitude would follow.

We don't do it as often as I wish, but we do it.  
I know it will be something to cherish for generations to come.  So I press them to write.

I also like that their handwriting is preserved at each age.  

Something you can't get by typing it into a computer.  

I like to keep scraps of things also.  Hair cut, art, essays, awards, school journals, report cards, scraps of paper with funny things they may have said...etc..........

I have one of these binders for each child.  Nothing fancy.  Some have needed an additional one because I just can't seem to part with that special painting.