This Is Me

Even though I love blogging and it's often a lot easier and faster to type, I feel like it's important to write in a physical journal as well sometimes. Then your handwriting is preserved and in case sometime ever happened to the internet, a journal would always be there. I also feel like I don't always write about things that would benefit my future generations. Why would they care about a bad day or what I had for dinner one night? But then, I was talking to one of my friends and he said that it's all part of the puzzle that helps describe YOU. He said that some of his mom's favorite journal entries of his grandma are the ones where she wrote about the rain. How simple is that? So I realized that everything is important and that as long as they have the big picture and get to know all different aspects of your life, then it's just fine.

Kenz found this awesome website on pinterest about journal writing and recording your history. It gives you different prompts or "challenges" to complete to help you get started. It also provides plenty of ideas for accomplishing them. For example, a blog, journaling, scrapbooking, or making a video. I think it would be fun to try all of the ideas and try to be creative! There are challenges that are just fun and get you to think and then there is a different website that is an LDS version.

So I'm going to be experimenting and probably writing more personal things in an actual journal, but I thought it would be fun to share some of the challenges too. I created a blog called Mary Mary Quite Contrary: how my garden grows. Kind of a fun analogy between the nursery rhyme and how it applies to life. Here's the link:
howmarysgardengrows.blogspot.com