The Main Reason I Blog

You should continue on in this important work of recording the things you do, the things you say, the things you think, to be in accordance with the instructions of the Lord. Your story should be written now while it is fresh and while the true details are available.

Your private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant. Your journal, like most others, will tell of problems as old as the world and how you dealt with them.

What could you do better for your children and your children’s children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity. President Spencer W. Kimball


I realize that a blog is not exactly private, but I hope to be as real as possible. Since I'm not a great journaler (is that a word?) my intention is to use this blog as a journal of sorts, to record the ups and downs of my life and our family life, so that my children will be able to read it and hopefully enjoy it. Maybe, just maybe, they'll be able to catch a glimpse of their mother, not just as their mother, but as a woman just trying to do the best that she knows how to do. (See my Blurb link above.)