Title Page
Today’s the first day I’ve ever written a journal.
It being the first time, to be honest, I’m still having trouble figuring out what I should write.
“Write about what happened that day,” he said, but it’s not like a lot of things happen around here worth writing about. It feels kind of pointless.
Ahh, but I’m just being a pain. I owe him at least this much. Let me try again.
Oh, right! Something did happen today. I brought my daughter out of the house for the first time.
Her eyes practically lit up at everything around her as she asked me what “this” was and what “that” was. It was like watching a mirror image of myself at her age.
Oh, and when she started chasing a big bumblebee around, you couldn’t say he was in a panic.
I tried swatting it off, but then it started chasing me around. My daughter and I had a nice laugh about that.
It’s almost summertime. I’m not sure how many it’s been since we started living here.
Come to think of it, it was about this hot and humid when we came here, too. Stiflingly so.
Looking back, it’s always so surprising. How quickly time flies!
How many more summers will the three of us see together?
How many more times will the three of us laugh and smile together?
I should probably stop thinking about it. No point getting all despondent about it.
Journals like these are all about reading them long after the fact and savoring all the things that seemed so important to you back then. I better try to make this journal as enjoyable as I can.
If I’m going through the effort, I shouldn’t just focus on the day’s events. I should write about all the things I’ve seen and heard up till now, too.
Yes. That should work.
If, whenever my daughter takes an interest in the outside world, this journal does anything to help her out, then I couldn’t ask for anything else. That’s how I think about it, anyway.
I’ll try to spice things up some more starting tomorrow.
It’s not every day he gives me a present like this, besides. I need to write in it daily, if I can.
And I think I’ll wrap things up that way today.
Here’s to another great day tomorrow.
xxx