Are you a mom that keeps a baby book and records each and every moment of baby's life? Or do you just keep a small journal and write down a few, sweet or hilarious moments that you might want to recall someday? Either way, do you ever write how those moments make you feel? Most moms probably don't; they're so concerned with trying to remember what baby did, they forget to remember how it made them feel. Well Mommies, the time has come to start changing how you journal baby's life.
If you keep a scrapbook, it may be hard to find a place to write a paragraph, or even a sentence, about your feelings. And baby books don't leave a lot of room for motherly thoughts either. No worries - head out to your local drug store or favorite online store and odds are you can find a cute, small journal that you can stick into a page protector in the back of your scrapbook, or on the same shelf as the baby book. Every time you start a new page, or pull out the baby book to add something, pull out the journal and write a few comments about that year you bought little Tommy a new toy dinosaur for Christmas only to find out when you turned it on, he ran screaming from the room. Or when baby Janie took her first steps at the Easter Egg Hunt.
Sometimes it can be hard to remember to journal at all for some of us moms; and that's okay, too. Start keeping your journal in the nightstand drawer, or right on top so you see it when you get ready to hit the hay. Try writing something at least once a week and before long you'll be thinking of something new to write every night before bed! And remember - when you, or your child once they're grown, go back and read all those wonderful stories it won't matter if the grammar isn't just right, or if every word is spelled correctly; what will matter will be the heartwarming feeling that you created memories for life . . .
And it sure won't hurt to go back and read that proud story about the day Cameron caught his first fish at the pond when you walk into a kitchen that somehow got caught in a red Kool-Aid powder hurricane.
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