Keeping journals - anyone do it?

carlamagee

i think this is a really good idea!! so good i may steal the idea and do it myself!! anyone able to reccommend a blog site or online journal i could use!!?

jomeljare

I do this for my two children and the eldest is eight.

I document family days out and holidays or special events or just a regular days with pictures and writing and other things.

I also write every month a summary of things that have happened that month and what they have been up to. It is quite big now and have started to present it in a scrapbook format but I do it digitally but also add other bits in. I find it amazing even now looking back to when the were younger.

Sometimes I update it all the time and sometimes I make notes and then catch up. Definately recommend doing this.:D

Mme.Hibou

carlamagee wrote: »

i think this is a really good idea!! so good i may steal the idea and do it myself!! anyone able to reccommend a blog site or online journal i could use!!?

https://www.blogger.com/start

remembered_nights

I use livejournal, you could check them out. I think it's a lovely idea - kids always want to know random things like 'do you remember when I first walked?' and you'll be able to say 'it was on this date, here's a picture, and here's how I felt at the time - tada!'

RLH33

Reading this has inspired me to do a blog/journal for my little boy and the one we are expecting later this year. This idea did occur to me when I got DS's learning journal back from pre-school last week, it is so interesting, with all his little comments, what he did etc and photos. I wished I had done something similar for home just to record and remember those things that seem so inconsequential but feel really important later when they have grown up a bit more.

oystercatcher

I have the diary my Mum kept for the year I was born....1961 ! It's only short notes but it's fascinating little notes on how much things cost and what people bought for the new baby (me !) it's a lovely personal scrap of history.
You could always print out a blog if you want to keep a paper copy!

Oystercatcher

Horace

Oystercatcher you're the same age as me - I was born in 1961 too:D I have a book that my mum had called Baby's First Christmas (only it was my second one in reality because I was such a premature scrap). Listed in it are the presents I had and who they were from, how I reacted when I was given a pair of maracas to shake, what I had to eat etc etc. She gave it to me for my 21st Birthday.

I keep a holiday journal - I started it in 2003 when I went to Australia and have put a few holidays in it, but my chap found it and read it and went ballistic at what I had put in it (some were personal thoughts of how I was feeling at the time - including the bits on how badly he treated me when we were on holiday). I rarely keep up with it now but I do read it from time to time.

weeclick

Although Ive never had kids and done anything in that sense I used to keep a diary up until a few years ago when life got too much and never enough time to think never mind keep a diary.

I still have a few diaries, and even though I never kept it up regularly the few months of the year when I did write in it makes a good read now, and theres things in there that I would have forgot about if I hadnt wrote them down. Some are good some are bad but theyre all memories and just wished I had kept them up now.

I also think doing it digitally is actually an advantage! You have as much space as you want, can paste in photos and either put on a disc or print if you want that way you can always have back up incase one gets ruined!

barjam_2

yeah go on do it.. my mother wrote some diaries and as said in previous posts they make interesting/fun reading... my children started writing diaries approx 7yrs ago it lasted about a month,:rotfl: but yesterday they had a read of them and to be honest they were hilarious..the kids were howling to see the things they wrote...

Sirbendy

Mums ones from 80-84 are fascinating for my missus, who was born in 86. The snows up to the windows, the constant freezing temps, water freezing in the ground, family in one room with the coal fire, miners strikes, power cuts etc etc etc.

I remember it...she doesn't. Photos and newspaper cuttings too.