Birthday Journals
Birthday Journals By Doreene Clement
www.the5yearjournal.com info@the5yearjournal.com
Last year, as I turned 50, (FIVE-OOOH!!!), I decided to give
myself a birthday party. Part of the party was to have a
birthday journal, or diary. (I used my book The 5 Year Journal
for two reasons -- #1. I had a lot of copies, and #2. The 5 Year
Journal is dated) I asked my friends to pick a date telling me
why they chose that date, and then write whatever they felt like
writing.
After the journal was passed around the party, I then carried it
with me and had more friends sign throughout the year. I have
now decided that this is my decade journal and it will come with
me, and both my old and new friends will become a part of it
from age 50 to 60 years old. Then I'll start again, because a
birthday journal is now part of my birthday celebration.
Another part of my birthday journal was writing a yearly
birthday wish for myself. My wish last year was: To be healthy,
wealthy, wise, happy, peaceful. This year my wish for myself is:
To stop, to look and to listen, while staying as quiet as
possible. At the time of my birthday I also write a birthday
wish for different friends, and the world.
In the back and throughout my birthday journal I have pasted
pictures, a fortune from a fortune cookie, my birthday
astrological from the newspaper, and other memories, as they
occur.
Birthday Journals Ideas
For your birthday journal you can do what I did, or here are
some more ideas you can ask your friends to write:
Retell a funny story about you and me. Write a birthday wish for
me, and a wish for yourself. Remember your favorite birthday and
what happened. Write about what your hopes and dreams are for
me, yourself, friends, family or the world. Tell me something I
never knew about you. Recall your happiest time. What was your
most unexpected moment? Write about the silliest time you can
recall. You were most surprised by