I also keep a journal. I love a nice spiral bound journal with heavy lined paper. In the last 2 journals I have added pictures. So the children have adopted my journals as scrapbooks. "It's the story of our family!" G tells us wisely. P just gave me a new one and now that I have 2 readers, I need to be more deliberate to write in this journal, the things I want them to know, not not know I'm telling them : ) They feel so sneaky that they're reading my journal... sneaky.