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  1. I don’t keep a written journal but I did keep a photo journal for the entire first year of my daughter’s life. I took so much pictures it was crazy. I think I maybe should do a written one now she’s older. Great idea.

  2. You know… my blog is FOR the baby. It’s all about pregnancy and my tiny baby. But I don’t post enough random stories. I keep up with little milestones and stories, but I should/could record MORE stuff. It may not be interesting to my followers, but it will be good for me to look back on!

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  4. I love this idea 🙂
    I don’t have any babies of my own yet, but when I do I plan on keeping a written journal chronicling their early years. I think it would make a sweet wedding present for a little girl.
    -Megan

    1. I look forward to the day that I get to share the journals with my kids. It has been so rewarding for me to write to them and about their lives, hopefully you will be blessed by it to. Thanks for sharing Megan!

  5. What a wonderful gift you’ve given to your children. This was something I started when my kids were in elementary school, and looking back I’m so glad I did!

  6. I made a scrapbook for each of my children’s years in school. It was a huge undertaking for me (and I only have two kids!) but they always enjoyed looking at them at the end of the year. And I did too. 🙂 It’s nice to have the record of our fun times together as well as occasional school papers of things they learned. Your journal idea is a great one.

    1. I love the idea of creating a scrapbook, I just don’t have the patience to make one. I’m always impressed by the amazing ones that I see others make. I’m sure your kids are going to cherish those forever! I need to come up with a clever way of storing their keepsakes once they get to school age.

  7. I’m so bad at this. I started one for each child but have not kept them up. I keep a memory vase where I tear of scraps of paper, write what ever it is I want to remember, date it, and then throw it in the vase. The kids LOVE going through those precious scraps of paper! It’s the only way I’d ever write them down. What a treasured gift these will be for your kids someday. I wish my mom would have done something like it.

  8. I love this idea! What a sweet thing to give to your kids when they graduate or move out. Thanks for sharing!

  9. I have been planning on doing this for about three years now. That’s it…I’m going to buy journals tomorrow and get started! Thanks for sharing on THE Pin It Party!

  10. Great idea – pictures don’t always say 1,000 words, sometimes you need the story behind the photo. Stopping by from Foodies and Crafties Soirée blog hop & link party.

  11. This is a great idea. I wish I had started something like this when my kids were young.
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  12. I used to keep a journal and when my sons were young, they kept one as well. Now the blog is an online journal that will embarrass them one day…lol Thanks for sharing and linking up with us at the #WWDParty.

    1. Blogging is such a great way to capture those moments too, and also for family to stay up to date on what is happening. It’s amazing what we can do with technology these day!

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  14. Hi,

    I am a father of 2 young children and we are expecting our third child in May.

    I have started keeping a journal for each of my children which involves a small write up at the end of each month. I accompany these with videos and images that are taken throughout the month.

    Currently, I have no rules about word length or content. I just write what comes to mind
    and what I think is worth keeping. Some months there is a lot to say, and some months
    not so much to say.

    But I am happy to know that each of my children will have a small writeup with images
    and videos for each month of the year until they are 18 years old which is when I intend
    of presenting it to them.

    I have struggled to find the best way to go about keeping this journal. Initially, I
    thought that I would keep a paper hand written journal and keep images/videos on a
    USB stick which I can present along with the written journals.

    However, I am not 100% happy with this approach and I have been thinking of better
    ways to approach this.

    I am not thinking the best way will be to do the following:
    – Keep the journal electronic (preferebly online) which means I can access it anywhere
    with an internet connection.
    – Upload and attach images and videos to each of the monthly journal posts I enter
    – The journal would have a unique password Url which I can provide to each child on
    their 18th birthday.
    – They can log in to their customised website and be presented with 18 years of
    content, writeups, images and videos.

    A benefit to this approach is that I can easily backup the journal and print out each
    post after I write it. I can then keep it safe in the house. This will be handy
    incase of fire or the files are deleted online.

    Since I decided on this approach, I have been researching for online/desktop software
    which would provide me with this functionality – however, I cannot find any suitable software.

    Thankfully, I am a software developer and I am considering building this as an online
    software.

    I am wondering whether other people would find a software useful and would be willing
    to use it if I build it and make it public?

    Would you pay for a software solution like this? And if so, how much would you value
    a software solution like this? $5 per month / $50 per year?

    1. I’ve heard of people creating blogs or archived emails to preserve memories and events of their children’s lives. Currently I’m just using my written journal entries and photobooks I create with Shutterfly. That system alone is enough for me in this current season but perhaps when my kids are old enough to help, they can also be apart of updating some sort of electronic memory archives. Thanks for sharing Michael 🙂

    2. I have looked all over the web for something like this and cant find it. I keep saying if only I were a software developer I would create it. What a gap in the market! I found one called Legacy of Love but its in Beta. Let me know if you plan to create it and I will be your first customer!

    3. Hi Michael,
      I love this idea and honestly would not be a paid user. I make scrapbooks on mixbook and email the URL to family and CC the gmail addresses i created for my kids. Sometimes me and my sister email them some thoughts or a picture and when her little brother came home from the hospital, her dad asked 4 yo to smile for a pic for grandma of the two of them. then she said, take one for me and stuck out her tongue and we emailed her email address that one.

      I am however super interested in making a website that queries the LEGO databases against the sets a user has indicated they own for which pieces need to be substituted for a build. I am wondering whether other people would find a software useful and would be willing to use it if I build it and make it public? Would you pay for a software solution like this? And if so, how much would you value
      a software solution like this? 🙂

  15. I have written in journals for our two boys; the oldest child I started writing in one when he was around 6 1/2 months old (he is now almost 9) and the second child I began writing in it just four days after he was born (18 months old). I write in both of the boys journals often and want to ask you when you think you will give your journals to your kids: do you see this as giving it to them upon high school graduation? Or do you see it as giving it to them on their wedding day or an anytime gift? How long do you envision writing in the journal? I definitely want to until graduation and maybe longer. I do not blog or write anything on the computer and only hand-write in the journals for each of the boys (each boy has his own journal). The only sad part to me about this is once I give it to the boys, I won’t have a copy for myself….but I guess that goes with giving a gift from your heart. And, that is exactly my purpose in doing this; to show my true heart and love to my boys as soon as I could and as long as I can.

  16. I started writing a letter to my daughter the day she was born. She is over 4 years old now and the letter is almost 300 pages long. It contains the major events (first tooth, first steps, first words) but also little things. Like what she ate for dinner, funny things she said or things we did together. Places we went, places we ate out at, etc. Her mother and I split up before she was two, so I do not have daily events to write about, only our time together every other weekend, but I am hoping she will look back on this when she is older and think that this letter is pretty amazing. I’m not sure if I want to give it to her on her 18th or 21st birthday. time will tell.

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