A ‘stay in place’ suggestion. I keep telling my kids to do this. Get a notebook. Put it some place where everyone in the house can get to it. Encourage EVERYONE in your home to write in it. Good stuff, funny stuff, frustrating stuff, being together 24/7 stuff. Stuff in the news. Stuff that scared them or gave them hope or encouragement. If the kids can’t write yet have them draw pictures. Include wine labels. Recipes you tried (or got sick of). Include news clippings. Include the amazing things the world did for one another. Include everything that changed, got better, made you wish for different or ‘before’. All of you newly minted home-school-parent-teachers it could be a great way to get your kids to be creative. It will be a snapshot of your family life that is different than the pictures we take and post. Encourage honesty even if it makes you uncomfortable. And you just might be surprised, years from now, how much this time together meant to you.
Come up with great titles. Maybe even get it copied or printed after this is all over, for everyone in the house to have a commemorative copy.
In years to come that notebook will become a family heirloom.
Be well everyone.
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Love this idea! ❤ 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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This is such a great variation to the boring journaling I’m doing. It won’t be quite the same because there’s only the husband and I here, but the kids could do their own and we could combine them. Thanks for sharing the idea.
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That’s a great idea Kathy. It could be a combined effort. Family doesn’t have to be in the same house to share their experiences.
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Great idea, Colleen 😀
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Thank you Irene.
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Great idea!
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Thank you Heart 🙂
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You’re welcome Chatter 😊
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❤️
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This is a wonderful idea. I am already imagining the notes my cousins and I would write to each other, the silly doodles I would do, the dried leaves my brother would stick on them.
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Thank you Parikhit. I hope you and all of your family are doing well.
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Yes, counting my blessing and being hopeful. I hope everybody is in good health and cheer 🙂
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We are! Thank you!
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That is s brilliant idea. 🙂
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Thank you Ute. 🙂
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Great idea. 🙂
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Thank you Paulette 🙂
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Great idea Colleen. A real social history!
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Thank you Peter 🙂
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Wonderful idea!
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Thank you Sheri 🙂
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yes, yes, yes!
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🙂
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What a wonderful idea, Colleen!!
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Thank you Jim 🙂
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