The important of a journal

Today Relief Society lesson was about the importance of journals. I love to write. I love to record. Am I not very good about doing it consistently. But today's lesson touched me so much. It is so important to be the family historian, which is a lot of what I do with my children's scrapbooks. Lots of journaling. But it is so important for the girls to know me. To know who I am and where I have come from. That is the part that I need to work on. They need to know the good, the bad and the ugly.

I know that Princess Seriously, thinks that I have been a mom my whole life. She just does not get when I tell her I was once her age. Well I was. I remember so much of it so well. That is the stuff that I need to put down on paper. So once I get all my scrapbook swaps done this week, that is another project that I need to add to my list.

One of my friends has a DH. His mom passed away when he was 14. She left 4 boys for the father raise and one of them was very young. She has tons of journals. One of the daughter in laws, took those journal and typed them all up and gave them all copies for Christmas, a few years ago. Those boys, especially the youngest, laughed, cried and remember the wonderful times they had spent with their mother. They have those very specials entries that are about each of them. They have the words written that tell them just how much there mother loved them. How much she loved their Dad. What a wonderful present to leave your family.

I do think that I will also be posting some of these things here on my blog. I encourage all of you to write about you. Tell YOUR story. Leave your history.