I miss blogging......journaling.
I've always enjoyed journaling. Thanks to my mom who always provided a journal and sat us down and taught us to journal and to my good friend Sandra, who was the master of journaling in high school. She bought me a journal for my 16th birthday and had my name engraved on the front and I will always treasure that journal. I wrote about everything and saved momentos from all kinds of things....including a piece of grafiti from grafiti rock in Salt Lake. (just a quick random memory of one of the things in there).
When that journal filled up, I bought myself a new one at Missionary Emporium. Remember that store? Years later, I bought extra paper and I am still using this journal.....going on about 16 years. It has my 'falling in love' story, my 'having babies' stories, school, college, homes, good times, bad times, heartbreak, and heartache......good and bad; letters to my children, my husband, my mom; inspirations, lessons learned, and on and on and on. I am so grateful to have this journal.
I still have all of my journals. I have two from my mom when I was little and Emily has claimed one and continues to write in it. I have one from a Sunday School teacher. He wrote his testimony in the front. Then the other two already mentioned plus random journals here and there. My "conference, firesides, church" journal, my 'Europe with Heidi' journal, and random writings on the computer. Over the years as I come across these journals, I grab a pen and update it. It's always fun to look back.
I have tried to stay faithful to John's extended family monthly newsletter.....journal....and I am so grateful to have that. I am excited to go back to 1996, the year we were married, and print off our news from every month. I also have other journals such as vacation journals.
So to get to my point.
I will continue with the newsletter and my own private journal but I miss blogging. I miss writing and documenting our lives with words and photos. I love looking back on our lives and having a quick reference to our life. I enjoy writing my thoughts and I am resolving to jump back into the blogging world. For no one's sake but my own......(and my posterity). (I must be writing to somebody because I write the same in my personal journal. I'm writing to somebody and always sign each entry. I just don't know who.) Although, I have had family members on my side of the family ask for me to update frequently again. So for them too. :) I find it fun and I have three blogs (besides family and friends) that I faithfully follow. I feel like I know these three women and love the things they have taught me in their random every day motherhood and womanhood.
This happens every year after Christmas. Well, it probably gets started even before Christmas. My thoughts and thinking turn to those things I NEED in my life to be and do better.
Sneek peak.....scriptures. Isn't the answer to all of lifes troubles found in doing the simple things. Scriptures, prayer, family home evening?! It shouldn't be so hard to stay faithful. But it is.
Some other things are brewing but I have a couple more days to prepare and be ready to commit.
2 comments:
loved this posting as well.
i have not been a faithful journal writer EVER except while i was on my mission... and even those journals met a tragic end unfortunately.
i have written off and on over the years, but nothing solid. my blog is the best way i have found to journal... but i have not been writing as often as i used to and i like your idea to make a resolution to do better this coming year. i think i will copy you. :)
i love you tawnie.
I love reading your blog! I love that you are so faithful with keeping a journal... or many journals!! Writing is so hard for me. You are great at it!
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