Year End Reflections

Does it seem to you that each year passes more and more quickly? Something I always look forward to doing each December is writing in our yearly journal. There are so many things that happen throughout the year that I always want to remember, but don’t have the time to really write about them so I began doing the yearly highlights.

I have a Franklin Planner and each month I jot down a couple of highlights from that month. I have a special family journal where I recap each year according to month. For example in February I will list the girls birthday party themes, June always includes how Dave and I celebrated our anniversary, and December has how we spend Christmas. I have been filling out this journal for ten years and it only takes about ten minutes each year to copy over the items from my planner and into my journal. It has been so interesting to look back on this from when we were first married and how our priorities and how we spend our time has changed. Now that our children are older, they like hearing our yearly recap read aloud and inputing what they feel is important to include.