How To Share More Of Your Life With Your Child Through Diary Entries, Journals, and Letters

I have always kept a diary or journal. I started doing this when I was eight years old.  Years after, it has been a great source of joy going through the pages and re-reading the stories and thoughts I shared there.  Keeping journals and diaries, and writing letters in these are great ways of sharing your life and keeping track of the highlights and unforgettable moments in your life. I knew then that doing this would be great keepsakes to share with my future children someday.

When I found out I was pregnant with my daughter, I made sure I bought one of those pregnancy journals, where I not only recorded information like medicine intake or types of food I ate, but also my thoughts and feelings about that special time in my life.

Since I love taking photos of every little milestone, I included these in my journal.  So you can imagine when I finally gave birth, just how many photo albums I was able to accumulate, documenting every single thing!

The other day I was able to find a wonderful journal from the Momtrepreneur stall in Shangri-la Mall, right across Pink Box accessories.  It’s called “THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES: From A Mother To Her Child.”

It’s a keepsake where a Mom can record stories and attach photographs of and about herself and share memories with her child.  I think that it’s a great gift for Moms everywhere, whether you just gave birth to your child, or you’re a parent of an adult.

I’m just about to sit down and enjoy filling out the pages.  I decided to first attach photographs that best represent the categories in each page.  I know that when my toddler-daughter is grown, she would appreciate going through all these photographs and the thoughts accompanying each entry.

I also appreciate sections of the book where I can post photos of our family tree for our child to see.  There is so much history to be shared with one’s child.

There are also spaces to write special messages, a section where I can get to share with her about how my own childhood, what my growing up and teen years were like, my personal thoughts about her grandparents, even a great series of pages where I can relate how I met my husband, her daddy.

It’s a pretty nice investment, and like I said, a thoughtful and meaningful gift idea for any Mom who loves to document life and milestones.

Enjoy pouring out your innermost feelings into this time-capsule-like journal.  I plan to include this among the many gifts I plan to give to my child when she turns eighteen.  By then she would have slowly begun to understand and embrace heartfelt gifts like these.