We’ve all asked ourselves “where does the time go?” We have all pleaded at one time or another for time to slow down. I know I talk about time a lot. It is somewhat of an obsession of mine. I love, respect, and value time. It is the most valuable commodity we have.

I love the time I get to spend with people that I love, doing things that I love to do.

I respect time…your time and mine…that’s why I’m always on time and it’s also why I have zero patience for tardiness. My minutes are precious, don’t make me waste them while I wait on you.

I value time. Time is money and moments in time are priceless.

My best guess to the question “where does the time go?” is that it gets lost. It gets so very very lost inside our mind. Since I got married, which is now 5 years ago, I’ve tried to keep a journal. I wanted to document our life together. The things that we experienced, both the mundane and the bigger more memorable things. And now that we have our sweet little Finley, journaling is even more important to me. I want to remember everything. I can’t make time go slower but if I’m journaling I can have something to show for all of my time spent.

I’m gonna be honest, it isn’t easy. I set a reminder on my phone to remind me every day to journal and sometimes I will go for weeks and journal every single day and then sometimes I will go weeks without writing a single thing down. But even though it’s tough to do it is soooo worth doing. Just in the past 7 months (which have flown by at lightening speed), I can tell you what Finley and I have done almost every single day. Its either something significant and obvious like getting shots (I hate when she has to get those damn shots) or a lot of times it’s something seemingly insignificant. Like the other day I was feeding her and when she was done, I was still sitting there holding her and she reached up and touched my face. She played with and pinched my nose and grabbed my ears and we sat there and giggled. That was what I journaled for that day and I will always remember that moment. There wasn’t anything super spectacular about it but because I took the time to write it down, I will never forget it and when I look back and read that journal entry I will be able to immediately go right back to that moment in my mind.

Now if you’re sitting there thinking… “I’m not a writer I can’t do that” or if you’re thinking “it’s too late I should have been doing that all along” or you could be thinking “I don’t have time.” …you’re wrong.

You don’t have to be a writer.

It’s never too late. A year from now you will wish you had started today.

You have time. Just eliminate one of your many sessions of perusing Facebook and Instagram and voila, you’ve got an extra 10 minutes.

I use the Day One app on my phone. I love it because along with your words you can add a photo. Then, based on the time and location of where and when the photo was taken, the app will automatically give a geographic location and the weather! How’s that for solidifying it into your memory?!

This app is just what I use because it’s easy access being that it is right there on my phone (and I have very poor penmanship so I prefer a digital medium:)

I’m also documenting Finley’s life with a Promptly journal (and of course photos, duh) New mamas…if you’re looking for a way to record your little ones life, this is definitely a good choice.

I say all of this to say… instead of saying “where have the past 7 months gone?” Or even “where have the past 7 years gone?” I can say to myself…”Here. Read this. This is where it went. This is what you did.”

Try it 🙂 Don’t look back and have nothing but a blank memory to reminisce. And PS. this isn’t just for the ladies either. Fellas you should document stuff from your perspective as well.

Here are a couple screenshots of the app on my iphone.

This entry was from my wedding. I’m so glad that I wrote about my wedding day in my journal. There are so many details that you would think you would forget but easily slip away over time. The fact that this app tells you what the weather is for a specific entry is a great feature for most days but I’m pretty sure I can speak for any and everyone that was at my wedding, NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET HOW CRAZY HOT IT WAS!!!

A few days after Finley was born and sat and wrote everything I remember about that day. The good the bad and the ugly. I wanted to remember it all.