Shane Life

Alli and I started new journals last night. She went to her parents house on Sunday night to help them faux paint their dining room and while she was there, she found some journals that were about 25 years old, written by her parents.

Her parents gave her permission to read through them and she brought them home with her. I picked her up at the half-way point in Mound City and she read from them to me as we drove home. It was such a cool insight into the lives of her parents when they were only just a bit older than us. They talked about their girls (Ashley was 2 and Alli was 4 when the journals begin), their church beliefs, their feelings about their friends and such. It was really cool because they journalled on the same days and it was interesting to read what they talked about individually on the days that they experienced the same things.

Their voices really came through in their writing and it was really neat to see that.

So Alli and I have decided to do it. Before we got home from Mound City last night, we stopped at Borders and picked up journals to write in (mine’s red, Alli’s is black) and we put our first entries in last night. I’m excited for us to do this together. I think that it will be a great thing for us to look back on in 10 or 20 years and remember our thoughts and feelings when we were still in our 20’s (not much longer for me…grrrrrr…).