Gratitude Journal

Last year I started to keep a sort of gratitude journal. It came after a counselor advised me to begin a journal to keep track of panic attacks/ episodes of severe depression to try to find the origin of those issues, but that just sounded so depressing (which was the point, I guess). So I half took his advice and began a gratitude journal instead. A few nights ago I found it in the rubble of my room and decided to share a few pages from it:

I fell in love with the sentiments I shared in that journal, and decided to start another one for this new chapter in my life. I'm not ready to share the inside yet, but here is the outside of it:

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." -Rumi

I love it. The journal itself was $1.50 at Michael's, the gold letter stickers were about $5. I also grabbed a Smash Stick to make documenting easier (pen on one side, glue stick on the other).

I have filled a few pages so far using instagram picture and a few scrapbooking papers, again from Michael's. It's just so fun. *Note: I print my instagram pictures using this tutorial.

Scrapbooking/journaling inspiration: Dear Lizzy / A Beautiful Mess

Book:

Coming soon!

Cover photos submitted by (counter-clockwise from upper right corner):
Christine Armbruster, Katy Ives, Mary Kennedy, Jennifer Craiker, Katy Ives,
Marie-Pier Breton, and Courtney Thompson. 

Submitted by Nancy Woodland.

Photographer: Greg Christiansen.

Parenting with a Purpose

 The Thomas Girls, Submitted by Jennifer Thomas.

"As a mother, I'm creating the next generation. If I want to contribute to the community, I can teach my children to be responsible spiritual beings led by spiritual truths. Thus,-parenting can be a socially responsible action. For the first time in years, I felt important: I'm not "just a mother!" I wanted to shout at all of those who have sneered and called me a breeder. I'm a social activist."

-Susan Hayward, Women of Purpose.

More submissions please!

A photograph of Lauren Lighthall,
taken by her mother Kelly Barnson.

We are still accepting photograph submissions indefinitely.
See this post for more information.

Reminder!

Reminder: We're still accepting
photograph submissions through
the month of March.

Submitted by Celine Coenen.

Submitted by Tess Fontanetti,
A photograph of her mother graduating from high school.
A couple months prior to this, her mother had been baptized into
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Submitted by Christine Armbruster

Photo by Katy Ives

Submitted by Allison Barnes

Submitted by Brittany Percifield