Keeping a Record

This week for our enrichment activity we had Ann Cannon, the daughter of Levell Edwards, come and speak to us about keeping a record. She's written several children's books and currently writes for the Desseret News. (I think I got all of that right.) Anyway- she shared several ideas on ways to keep records and journals. I've never been big into keeping a journal of my everyday happenings. It always felt too time consuming and became too tedious, so it was refreshing to realize that there are several easy ways to keep a record of my life, without spending hours writing it all down. In fact, blogging was one of those ways.....yeah!!!! She really stressed the fact that a journal should be personal and reflect who you are and what is important to you. So, here are some of her ideas:

1. Keep a list journal -write down things you want to do some day in your life. Write down 10 things you love about a friend, family member, or co-worker. Write down things you would rather being doing with your day. Write down things you want to do during the summer vacation, etc.
2. Keep a grateful journal-everyday write down something you are grateful for.
3. Keep a Christmas yearbook-every year she buys a new children's Christmas book and has her family member write down something they enjoyed about the holiday season on the title page. They write down their comments and then sign it like a yearbook. She also staples her kids Santa letters to the front page.
4. Scrapbook
5. Blogg
6. Keep a diary- this would be your day to day, or week to week activities.
7. Keep a letters book-copy your emails, or letters and put them in plastic covers that you can keep in a three ringed binder. A lot of times are letters have important dates or information in them. I thought it would be a great idea to do this with all the letters I sent home from my mission.

After she was done speaking we went into the gym and started making our own little journals. My friend Shauna is the most creative person I know and she's the one that came up with these adorable journals.

Aren't they super cute. They bought them at Michaels for a dollar and all we did was spice them up with some ribbon and tags. They had a wide variety of tags and ideas of what you could do with them. Some of the tags said: Thoughts, Quotes, 52 Reasons Why I Love You, Scripture Journal, My Book of Funny Quotes, Bedtime Stories, etc. I thought it was a great idea to have different journals for different things. These were super easy and tons of fun to make. In fact, I bought a couple of extra to give away as Christmas gifts. Anyway- just thought I'd pass along the helpful ideas.