Diary To The Future

I tend not to post pictures of Miss M, but I figure this one looks more like an alien than my child so it’s okay.  As for myself, that’s actually exactly how I look first thing in the morning.  All the time.

So ever since Miss M was born, I’ve been keeping a diary to her.  ”Dear Pooh-Bear, here’s what’s going on, here are the awesome things you’re doing, etc.”  I recently read her an entry I wrote when she was only a few months old, and most of it centered on her love of the breast-feeding pillow “My Breast Friend.”  I didn’t get to read any more beyond that.  I was too busy cleaning up her spit take.

Now here’s the interesting thing.  I find that despite my best intentions, I’m only slightly more regular with my entries to her than I am with these web posts.  I always mean to do them all the time, but other things get in the way.  Often the things that do compel me to race to the Miss M journal are truly neurotic moments where I feel like I’ve made a horrible parenting decision and I want to purge my guilt by explaining my rationale.  The problem is she won’t read the journal for another at least ten years (I plan to give it to her for high school or college graduation).  90% chance she won’t remember the mishap.  What she will notice is that I’m writing to her not about the incredible week she and I had alone together in the U.K. when she was seven years old, but my own ridiculous mishegoss.

So I ask you for guidance!  If you had a diary from a parent that she wrote when you were little, what would you want to read about?  What would you hope would be in those pages?  What would thrill you to see?

I thank you in advance, and so does Miss M.  I’ll make sure to credit you in the journal.  :)

 

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