Greetings from Nevada! I hope it’s been a great week.

I want to start this week by saying I hope all you Dads out there had a fabulous Father’s Day! You are loved and appreciated more than you probably know!

As many of you know, because I’ve written about it on multiple occasions, I work on a digital journaling product called JRNL.com. It is a private platform that allows you to create multiple journals at the same time. You can keep them as private as you want, or you can share on an entry-by-entry basis to gather comments from others.

I don’t just work on the product, I use it. And while I will admit, it isn’t a completely flawless system (we are missing a few features I can’t wait to have – but we’re working on adding them), it is one of the best online journals I’ve seen. I love that I can create an entry on the fly with my phone, so I don’t forget anything that I know I’ll want to remember later.

Anyway, I was spending a little time earlier this week, adding past columns into my Veloz Viewpoints journal. I would eventually like to print them into a book, so my children will be able to go back and read what I wrote about them as they grew up. I know I wish I had a copy of all my Dad’s columns!

I have been writing a column, in some form, since before I had the twins, so that’s a lot of years already where I’ve been blabbering on and on about myself. Unfortunately, I have lost many of my columns from when I first started writing them. I wrote them when Dad was in Carlisle, KY with his paper there, and therefore, he no longer has access to his email account where I sent them every day. And my email sent box doesn’t go back that far – only back to 2010. I must admit, I’m pretty devastated.

I still need to do some digging on an external hard-drive I had that had copies of the columns. I thought I had backed up properly, but couldn’t find them the last time I checked. I’m going to do a better job looking, and if I can’t find the files, I may take it somewhere to see if they can.

I admit, I will be pretty crushed if I can’t find them. This is essentially how I marked all the big milestones with my kids. I didn’t have much of a chance to scrapbook – hello! Two babies at once! – and so I have, unfortunately, forgotten some details from their baby years. I really hope I can recover them.

Do you keep a journal? Do you keep a written record of your life that your family will one day have access to, to know all the ins and outs about you?

I never did before I started working on JRNL. I’m still not always awesome about it, but I try to document as much as I can, so my kids won’t ever have questions about my life when I’m no longer around to answer them – because they might not think to ask.

I’m not saying you have to use JRNL – although, that would be pretty awesome – but I am suggesting that you think about what you would want your kids to know about you, when you’re no longer here.

What words of wisdom would you pass down? Have you passed it down? Why wait?

Until next week, make it a great one!

Amy