Easter Sunday 2012 & the Importance of Journaling.

Here is my gorgeous children on Easter Sunday. We were at my parent's home.

But here is also the thing. I didn't journal about it until three months later. It is now July. This happened in April. And I remember we had good times, but I can't for the life of me remember the details. Or even the not so much details. Crazy how our memories fade so quickly.

 I read an article in the Ensign about how to get back to the basics. Not sure which month it was, I know it appeared in the 2011-2012 school year. But the message I extracted from the article is that we need to slow things down. Not be so busy. If we are too crowded with even good things, but none the less too crowded, we don't have time for the spirit to speak to us. It suggested stripping everything away and adding in scripture reading, prayer, and journaling. Then begin adding in small things. I wish I knew the article so I could read it again. The one thing that stands out to me in the commandment we have to write in our journal.

 I was always so good at writing in my journal until I got married. Not sure what changed or why I quit. But I did. Then I started super scrapbooking and did a lot of journaling in there. The problem with that was that you had to scrapbook a page and at the rate I was adding children, I didn't have much time to scrapbook. Blogging was a blessing sent from heaven to help me with my journaling. I know journaling is important and I do want to do it. I really enjoy writing. And I enjoy reading what I wrote later on.

 Although this post has nothing to do with Easter Sunday 2012, only the pictures correlate to that, it is a firm reminder why journaling is so important. At least for me. My brain cannot remember. Memories fade so quickly.

 Now to just get this blog slurped into a book so I can have these memories if anything ever happened to the Internet or electricity or whatever.