How to keep a family journal

Have you ever kept a family journal? For my husband and I, this is a tradition we hope to keep in place when we have children. The family journal records all that happens in our home life and family experiences.

Here's a list of things we include in our Family Journal:

• guests that visit
• house projects
• moments we want to preserve with photographs, letters, cards, and other flat mementos
• recipes we enjoyed cooking in our little kitchen
• celebrations like birthdays and holidays
• any trips we go on
• how we want to grow stronger as a couple
• funny things we say
• a run-down of a typical day or weekend - with photos
• resolutions for the year, divided into categories (ex. Travel, Marriage, Work, Self, ect...)

In the future, we would love to use this concept with our children, as a way for the family to come together and reflect on shared experiences.

We also named our home because there's so much significance that surrounds it for us. We're first-time homeowners with this house and we're already very attached to it. It's more than a number. It has history (built in 1950) and character that goes beyond the mailing address.  Naming our house provides us with an anchor; it becomes a time capsule, a refuge, a living registry of time.

So, I had the name of our home debossed on our family journal, along with the date that we started filling it.