For Christmas I asked for and received the book/journal One Line a Day: A Five year Memory Book. I have always wanted to keep a journal, but with two little ones it is has always been a good idea but never fulfilled. Well, last year I saw the One Line a Day book somewhere and thought that this might be something I could handle. You see, you don’t get much space to write…only about 5 small lines or so. The really cool thing about this journal is that there is space on each page for five years! The top of a page lists the date and then on the side is spaces for five years. You fill in the year and your entry. I think this will be neat way to see how many different things we do on a particular day over the course of five years.
The really neat thing about this is that I feel like I am doing a better job at documenting my children’s childhoods than I ever have before. Both of the girls have “baby books” but only Miss M’s is filled up to about 3 years or so. Little C’s book is an utter disgrace. I was supposed to write in it every month up until she turned a year. Um, yeah, that didn’t happen. I think I have it filled until she was maybe 5 months. Sad. Of course, I could try to go and fill it in but I would really be lying and fudging on things that I honestly do not remember when they happened. This little book (and did I mention that it is indeed small?!) helps to solve this problem. I write in it every night before I go to bed. Sometimes I will write down something funny Miss M said or something new that Little C did but for the most part I just document the events of the day, kinda like my Granny did all those years ago.I encourage new parents and not so new parents to get one of these books or start one of your own. You will be providing not just your children a gift for the future but also their children and their children….
I didn’t receive anything for writing about this book…just wanted to share a great product!
Journals..I never really felt much able to do that kind of work. yet, here I am writing online. Thank you for sharing that link to Tillystales. That is absolutely wonderful and really nice to have those memories. Thanks for inspiring me. I think might get something like that–one line a day journals.
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