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Journal: Grandma

 

This was not what we had planned. Snow was on the schedule for journaling this week. It all started with last weeks challenge about food. I was going to scrapbook a page about Ebelskivers (filled pancakes) that my Grandma always made for us when we visited. Every time I sat down to do it I just felt so overwhelmed with all of the emotions tied to my Grandmother. It has been over a year, but part of me, sometimes, thinks she is still at home in Idaho. Since I did not see her daily, and some times did not see her for very long lengths of time, it feels like nothing has changed. It is only on our trips to Idaho that I realize there is no longer a Grandma's house to go to. So last night in my last ditch effort to force a page.. I realized that I should be making a page about Grandma herself..then maybe the Ebelskivers. It is a work in progress, but we plan to have it posted to the blog this week.

Here are some ideas....

1. What are the special things you did with your Grandma? Bake bread, play dolls, go shopping?

2. What were your visits like with Grandma? Could you run to her house whenever you wanted? Did you come for long visit since you lived far away?

3. Is there a special mentor in your life who took the place of a Grandma? Someone else's Grandma, a kind older lady in your ward?

4. What did your Grandma teach you?

I am sure your ideas are endless. Don't forget, we would love to see your work!

Journal- Did anyone say funeral potatoes?

Some times we think our journaling needs to be about something "important". You know those life altering events. While I agree we need to record important events, I strongly believe the day to day is just as fascinating. I eat lunch every Tuesday with my husband's grandmother Phyllis. She has lived in the Liberty Park area of Salt Lake all of her life. She celebrated her 92nd birthday last week. Her day to day life of when she was a little girl is so interesting to me. Her Mom made fish and chips every Friday (she was a convert from England). One of her favorite things for me to bring is fish and chips from a local shop.

January is National Soup month. I provided a great recipe from a recent Souper Saturday to those who signed up for weekly e-mails. Maybe soup is not your thing. Here are a few suggestions of what you can scrapbook about or journal for this week....

1. The role a certain food plays in your life... your comfort food.

2. The role food plays in our Mormon culture. If you do not know what funeral potatoes are or have never made a jell-o salad let us know, we have some great recipes.

3. The favorite dish your Mother makes (Grandmother or spouse).

4. The food you ate on your mission. (Even though I stayed in the US I never ate collared greens until my mission or had a Buckeye Chocolate).

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Journaling Challenge- Letters

Letters or mail. Something that isdeclining with the use of the internet. Something I love. Who does not love to get mail?! I received a piece of missionary mail this week. It is the first missionary mail I have seen in nine years. The letter was short and sweet. I cried like a baby, cried because Imissed my mission, cried because this mail was from a person who I love dearly, and cried because I missed my Granparenst who served two missions and always sent letters (well at least Grandma did).

It also happens to be National Letter Writing Week.

So this week we are journaling about the mail we have received. Did you have a pen pal as a youth, do you share love letters with a spouse? Also those missionaries, there always seems to be mail when there are missionaries. Here are a few ideas...

1. Journal/Scrapbook the "secret code words"- When my husband and I  were on our missions we tried to keep the sappy stuff out of our letters. Our focus needed to be on the work not on the longing we felt for each other. So we made up this code word "Mush". It stood for all those things we wanted to say to each other, but held back for that special time.

2. Journal/Scrapbook the joy of getting mail or even the dread of those Dear John letters.

3. Journal/Scrapbook about the person who used to send you mail.

4. Journal/Scrapbook about your e-mail buddy now.

5. Write a letter to someone.

Remember to keep your letters. My Father's Mom died when he was nine. He was the youngest of nine children. He had an Aunt Maggie who lived a short distance away, but not close enough to visit daily. She would send a letter every day instructing this motherless family what they needed to accomplish that day. How I wish I had those letters.

Even if you e-mail, print those out once in a while. A Sister in my Relief Society lost her mother a few years ago. When she died she realized that she had e-mailed her mother almost daily and had all that correspondence. She also realized that she had just cleaned the files in her computer. When she went to retrieve the e-mails they were gone.

Share your ideas with us!

Late Start

The Christmas items are still up on the web site and at my house. We are just having a hard time moving this year! We apologize! Things will be changing today...on the web site. Christmas may be up at the house for a little while longer.

New Years Goals

We love lists at LDSscrap. January isa big time for list making. Your goals, plans, people you need to find. We wanted to share LDSscrap list with you.

1. Journaling. It is going to be a big thing for us this year. New products, ideas, blogs, and kits that will focus on the story behind the pictures. We will help you scrap memories with out pictures too!

2. The New Improved Mission Club. Our goal is two kits a month. One with a theme so you will have a complete album in twelve months and the other random pages that all missionary albums need.

3. Mini store at Conference time. Many of you call us and ask "our store hours". Currently we are just on line. But we are working out a plan to open up a mini store during Conference weekends. We hope to have it downtown somewhere.

4. Attend more regional craft shows. If you know of any we would be happy to hear from you. We plan on being in Heber and Idaho Falls so far this year.

5. Kit, kits, kits.

This is just a short list. We hope your list making is going well.