My Grandma’s Journal, A Small Note

I just finished going through Gram’s journals. Unfortuantely, I didn’t read every word, but from what I did read I gained a lot. Not only did her journals give an account of her day to day life, but they gave insights into all the happenings from 2000-2008. She’d make little notes about what I was doing every day when she called our place and noted things most of our family was doing. It’s amazing, to be able to look back and read a couple words and know exactly what I was doing at the time she called. It makes me want to continue journaling and do so even more. I want to remember more of my life than I do up to this point. We don’t realize how much we’ve lost until we look back and remember bits and pieces that form a whole.

I’m exhausted, but excited about preparing this paper for class. I don’t think it’ll be what I thought it would, but I do still intend to write the piece I intended to write, if not for me, than for my nieces, nephew and my children. They didn’t have enough or any time with her but I don’t want them to go one day doubting her importance, impact and significance of her life. Without her pushing through the many layers of life she had, they would never have come into existence. For that, my whole family has her to thank.