There comes a time every year

I love my Moleskein datebooks. 

I have been using the Moleskein soft cover small pocket daily planner since sometime around 2008. 

And at the end of every year it is time to transfer all of the pertinent information from the year ending into the next year's book.

I flip through page by page and copy all the important details. Mainly birthdays but occasionally things I like to keep a yearly record of. 

As I was going through my 2014 datebook I found some really neat reminders. 

The day his sister and I had to take a 4 hour round trip to pick up the boys new truck while he was still in Afghanistan. The day the boy came home from Afghanistan, including the exact date that his boots touched American soil again. The day I spent a couple of hours looking for and purchasing our hotel rooms for our whirlwind Florida trip this summer. The day I weighed in at 128.08 lbs and freaked the hell out. The day my oldest finally started at a job that would mean she would finally become self sufficient and wouldn't never again have to rely on someone to help her through.The day we celebrated the pending wedding of Brat#4 to his girlfriend of almost 4 years. The date of the beautiful wedding they shared at Springhill College Chapel. The day we drove to Tennessee to visit the newlyweds in their new apartment, and then had a blast at the Bristol race.

Birthday parties I attended, anniversaries remembered.Planning for visits and get togethers and barbeques and taking and meeting old friends out for great food and lots of laughs and good times.

 

It's all in this little book that I throw in my purse everyday and jot stuff down to remind me what I always forget to do.

I can even look back through this little book and see what kind of weather we have had. How old my chickens are. How many eggs we are getting at certain times of the year. Who was sick and who had school functions, whether I went to them or not.

And every Alabama football game I watched. Most with the finishing scores.

This is the best part of the end of a year for me. Going through this little black book and looking back over a year that is always full of good times and bad, friends and family, smiles, laughter and tears. 

I've been doing it for quite a while now, you should too, you will thank me at the end of next year ;0)