Handwritten Pages : 1,000 Gifts
 94. Less time spent online and more in the real world.
95. A sudden heavy rain shower in the middle of an oppressively hot afternoon.
96. Finishing a journal. It took me almost 11 months. It holds the story of my first year of marriage, my pregnancy, and Christian’s birth. What a blessed and tempestuous time in my life. I love to see God’s invisible handwriting all over my handwritten pages. Sometimes it’s not clear until I read it months later.
97. Colors. The world would be so dull in black and white.
98. A new necklace. I rarely buy jewelry, which makes it all the more fun when I do.
99. The brilliant green frog who crouched outside our front door yesterday.
100. The cuteness of Christian sucking his thumb.
101. Christian’s friendliness. He is already a little social butterfly. He loves people.
102. Breyer’s ice cream on sale – buy one get one free.
103. Children’s books from the library.
104. The Lord’s unending patience with me.
105. Wanting Jesus more.
106. Cross-references in my Bible.
107. Food in our refrigerator.
You will so love looking back on that journal in years to come!
I love that feeling I get whenever I finish a journal… and I love looking back at all that God has taught me through the years in a more detailed account.
I also love finishing a journal! I found several in boxes at my parents when I was going through things. It really enjoy going back through them and seeing how the Lord has now answered prayers…about things I had forgotten I even prayed for.
I LOVE finishing journals!!!! I am almost done with mine now and so so so excited!!!!!! It is always like starting a new chapter of life when you start a new one and so neat to be able to look back and see what God has done.
I’m glad to see I’m not alone in the joy of finishing a journal… but half of it is my excitement to start a new one! It freshens up the experience. 
I have never finished a journal before…how amazing it must be to look back at the recent big changes in your life captured in writing! Good for you!:)
How beautiful to have a journal of such a beautiful year of your life! That’s a blessing you’ll cherish in years to come. I LOVE finishing a diary and starting a new one – it’s a lovely way of “numbering our days” BEYOND, even, the loveliness of writing a diary.
I spend some time reading my journal last night of what went on last year this time. What a joy to see the Lord work though some very diffucult times, bring us through, and and continue to grow us.
The cutest EVER!
My last baby was a thumb sucker.