JOURNAL keeping..............

has always been such a LOVE of mine! .............
but this weekend my heart was renewed with the feelings of how important it is to keep a journal.
What happened??????????????
there were three experiences this weekend which bore a powerful testimony to me of its importance.
1st: Cameron made me a face book page......and that has been fun! One of Melissa's friends wrote on my page saying there were four things that she will always remember me for:

1. my french toast (which I inherited from my mother but still never could match the quality of hers.
2. listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir music
3. Angel food cake.(I had a problem with this one at first then I remembered that Melissa would request that cake for her birthday and Dawn would always come over for her birthday celebration.
4. JOURNAL KEEPING.....and she asked me for some tips on keeping one!

Amanda came for part of the weekend so she could attend one of her good friends baby shower. She talked to me about my journals and asked if she could take one home to read! I was shocked and yet honored that she would want to read one so I gave her my first journal written in the late 70's through her birth. It was such a compliment for me to think she wanted to read about my life......because it is certainly not an extraordinary one.....just "life"!
Then James called and we had a long conversation and it was about my journals..........
They had been packed upstairs in the attic so I asked Cameron if he would go get them because Amanda wanted to take some home........he gladly went up. As I opened the boxes I felt "old friends" come to life! I carefully put them up in the SPARE BEDROOM.......(can you believe we actually have a spare room at this time!!

Here were the volumes of journals I unpacked with the exception of three that I gave to Amanda to read!
I have renewed my strong testimony of keeping records of our lives. It does not seem like much but after almost thirty years of keeping a record.......I feel humbled that my children want to read about my LIFE! I hope someday they truly know who I am. I, of course love being a mother and that is first and foremost in my happiness of life but I want them to know who I am as a person........and hopefully through the pages of my journals they will!

Posted by Barb Zinn