I got to experience something pretty cool today. Princess E told me she has an assignment to write a story for the Young Authors contest. That it isn't optional this year. I said well when we get home I'll get in my cedar chest and get out the story I did when I was your age that won at the school level, and maybe district, but I got to go to a conference at BYU and meet a famous author Dean Hughes.
So I dug down in and pulled out several stories I had written when I was their ages as well as a little older. I even had done the illustrations. They were VERY impressed with their old mom.
They also had been asking for a few days to see my old journals so I pulled those out too. Upon reading a few entries we all learned a few things. My very first entry was when I was 6. Well my mom kept it for me until then, and I told about my first time baring my testimony in sacrament meeting. The next entry was from my baptism, Princess M was pretty stoked because it was April 12. Lots of other fun things were discovered. It was also fun to realize It didn't matter that there was only 1 or 2 entries per year as I was growing up. Or that the entries were pictures. It was the fact that I kept it and it was a part of my history and my kids could see me when I was their ages. How similar we are.
It was pretty fun to share that with them and hopefully they will see the importance of preserving some of those memories for their children.
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