Do you find that humans have a tendency to state the obvious and this tendency carries over to scrapbooking journaling too?

Let's take for example. There's a photo showing your little girl doing a little tap dance routine at her dance school. Instead of journaling the obvious that she's dancing, why not list out the wonderful traits she exhibited from her dance practice? Like how she has displayed persistence in perfecting her dance steps by spending a few uninitiated afternoons practicing her moves at home alone?

Rather than harping on the obvious fact that she's dancing, you can have the chance to remind her of a wonderful trait of persistence you hope she'll carry into adulthood as well.

Not only can we do fantastic scrapbooking journaling on the non-obvious stuff, we can journal on our imagination and expectations too.

Take some quiet minutes now to image how life would be when all your kids are all grown up and how life would turn out for each of them. Journal about how you imagine your son's future girlfriend would look like. Write about the possible careers your girl would take on. Keep these "imaginative" scrapbook pages and compare notes when they eventually grow up in 10 or 15 years later. See how you