before there was blogging...

for activity days this month we're going to talk about the importance of keeping journals. in preparing for this class, i found my old journals and started going through them.

check out my very first one. an awesome teal and gold personalized notebook from 'deseret book'.



looking back and reading old entries, the thing that kept running through my head was "holy crap i was a dork!"

would you like some proof? here's an entry from exactly 12 years ago.



keep in mind this was the same year tom and i started dating and i seriously thought i was SO mature.

the last journal entry i ever made was in september of 2001. that is, until i started blogging in october of 2007. when i first started our blog, i didn't consider it anything more than a means to keep my family and friends in touch with what was going on in our lives, but as i look back and read old posts i've realized that keeping up this blog has been a great way to journal our lives.

something that 'facebook' just can't touch.

so my point is... keep blogging my friends! you won't regret it!