Hello Friends!  My kids say funny things.  My second DSS used to call a gallon of milk, a “pack”.  “Hey Chelle, we need a new pack of milk!” As a 5 year old, my dd15 was convinced her name was EmilyAnne5. I don’t remember these things because I have a fabulous memory, I remember them because I wrote it down.  Most of us aren’t scrapping those memories on the very day they happened.  Making a collection of those stories can help when you are ready to scrap.  In this digital age there are lots of resources for remembering your stories.  All you need is a place to jot down the details:

  1. Oh Life: http://ohlife.com/  — Oh life sends you an email each day asking how your day went.  You can ignore it, or if you have a story you want to remember, just reply to the email.  You can search your email/stories on the website.
  2. There are several online journals.  Don’t be intimidated into thinking you have to actually keep a journal. Just use it when you need a place to save your stories.
  3. Text yourself/spouse  — maybe you don’t want anything formal…and you can’t keep track of a notebook.
  4. (I’m certainly not speaking from experience.)  When I need to remember something I’ll just text the main points to my husband (my old phone would let me text myself…but not this one).  Then when I have my computer handy I can transcribe the texts.
  5. Mini notebook –  a simple little notebook and pencil to write it down when it happens.
We might not be able to remember the details of memories from years past, but we can save the stories of our current memories.