How To Journal Your Daily Diary of Thoughts and Memories

If you are not a scrapbooker - now you can be! Scrapbooking is a huge cottage industry with unlimited options, but plain and simple...scrapbooking IS memores! With pictures....or not! In this scrapbook page here - my trip to Florida - the ocean shoreline was amazing! But more than the appearance, was what it made me feel. My thoughts as I looked out onto God's creation and the sounds and things going on right in those beautiful waters. How it made me feel, why I was even there in the first place! That is what I journaled about using a computer font. Then I just matted the photos and Ta-Daa!! Instant memories at a glance! I pull this album out often, just for those special memories I journaled about. I also included sea shell chips - just brought home an actual piece of that memory. See.. you can do more in your journal than just write.

You can journal with scrapbooking with or without photos! Quick, easy and you don't have to have a ton of time to do it! You can do the journaling free hand or with a fancy computer font. Either way, your memories will be recorded for history!

At age 50, I preserved 45 years of my personal memories and just started writing. I found I had more memories without photos and didn't want to loose them, so I just started writing using a nice computer font. Once done, if I had a photo go to with the memories, I'd use it, but very simply..quick and easy.
Read about this technique here: 45 years of my personal memories and how I organized them. See how easy it is?

This would also be a great way for your child to not only preserve their memories as they are happening, but if done in their own handwritting, 50 years later they will get a nice chuckle from seeing their handwriting at an early age! Also, trust me, 45 years later, although you will have many memories, you have lost or forgotten just as many. Preserving the memories as they happen will make sure they are never forgotten.

Plus, what a great way to encourage your child to read!

When my grand daughter started the first grade, she loved to write stories. So I got her a first grade lined composition notebook with lines at the bottom and blank at the top. On the way to school every morning, she'd write a story, sometimes true, sometimes not, and then she'd draw a picture to go with it! She'd read back to me what she wrote and I just enjoyed it so much! She was having fun while practicing her writing skills, her spelling, grammer,
reading skills and even her thought process! All in one little notebook with lined paper. What a fun way to practice her education, but also, just think of the wonderful memories she is creating for herself.... and all it took was a journal and about 15 minutes in the mornings on the way to school....

To get "in the mood" to write, it is fun to choose a special journal book or notebook. IT's just the fun way to start! Choose a notebook that is easy to handle, easy to write in and has pages big enough to get a couple thoughts on before you have to turn the page. My personal preference is 8x10 size and a spiral binding. The spiral makes it very easy to turn the pages and be able to write on the front of the page and the back of the page. You always have a nice, neat "area" to write on and not have to struggle with that extra front or back part of the book. Spiral binding also makes it easy to take the journal with you. Write while in the car, on the bus or lunch break at work, if you want to, and the sprial makes the journal just the perfect size to work with "on the run" or in small places.

Journaling is a great way to "get away from it all". Your diary is all yours. What you write is what you want to write.