Day 30: My Favorite Song

Let's finish this challenge!

But seriously, my favorite song? Do I have a favorite anything? Besides Joseph. He's definitely my favorite. Other than him, I guess I'd say that green is my favorite color. But a year ago I would have said that blue was. And I think that vanilla is my favorite ice cream. But that's because it is smooth and can go with anything. It's like jeans...you can wear any color with jeans and it's fine. Vanilla goes with pie, it goes with cake, it can stand alone, etc.

Okay, so maybe I do have a few favorites. But a song? Nope. I have favorites. Plural.

As I mentioned on Day 15, I bought a whole cd of songs I didn't know and still don't know simply for the song "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton. I guess that qualifies it to be one of my favorite songs.

Another of my favorite songs is "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield. I like how it helps me remember that the future is what I make of it and to embrace life.

And then there's "I Am a Child of God." A couple of weeks ago I asked Tavi if she wanted to take a nap. She crawled into Eldon's bed. Eldon then came over to her, started stroking her hair, and sang "I Am a Child of God" to her. I didn't even know he knew it. You can't beat that.

Day 29: What I've Learned

Note: I drafted this post nearly a year ago. Most of it still applies.

When I was 14, I started writing in my journal every day. I did that for years (though on my mission I didn't always write every day; I had a bedtime, and I couldn't stay up to write if I didn't get it done before then). Then I got married, and my habit nearly died. I usually managed to write once or twice a week, but the regularity with which I'd written prior to my marriage was gone. It was while I was in this journal-writing slump that I started my blog. But I found I wasn't a very regular blogger, either. I thought that perhaps this challenge would help me change that. It wasn't terribly effective. :)

A few months ago I stumbled on an article that gave me a push to start writing in my journal regularly again. So I've managed to get back into my habit, though it's still a bit bumpy when our schedule is abnormal, such as when we go out of town. And then a few weeks ago I read another article, I think this one, though I'm not sure because the way I applied what I read isn't explicitly described, that impelled me to add another element to my journal entries.

Anyway, I'm now writing regularly in my journal; I'm writing entries that help me focus on things I am grateful for, positive things that happen, goals, and follow up on those goals

I have some friends who put lots of pictures of their kids on their blogs. I don't do that so much; I post pictures of my kids on flickr.

Today's Update: I found that the goals tended to be the same thing day after day, so I changed them to weekly goals. Somewhere along the way those weekly goals fell by the wayside, at least as far as recording them in my journal went. I'd actually forgotten about them until I re-read this draft. Maybe I'll start them again. Anyway, I don't write in my journal every night, but I'm still have my journal-writing habit, and it is still gratitude-based. I don't need a blog to substitute for my journal. My journal is for me; my blog is for what I think I'd like to share with others. So it doesn't matter if I don't update it as often as I do my journal. And since I post pictures on Flickr, I don't need to update it for friends as often as some of my friends do about their kids. Because that's great for them, and I enjoy reading their blogs (when I have time, ha!), but that's not what my blog is for me. And that is what I have learned.