Amazing that you’re doing a 10-year-old book! I can imagine that would be quite bulky, but also so handy to look back at all those years on each page. Love it!

Ooh, I love your quarters, Jean! That’s beautiful that you keep a card with quarters taped on it. That is SO much like something I would do too. 🙂 Yes, visuals are powerful.

It’s always fun to have a fresh year to begin again!

My husband isn’t much of a calendar person either. He does use the calendar on his phone a bit more than he used to, but he’s never kept a paper calendar and I don’t suspect he ever will. ha. But it works for him! I got 3 free wall calendars in the mail for 2026 so I had fun deciding which one to use, based on which one had the prettiest pictures. I went with one that had roses.

I can see you keeping a one-line-a-day journal too, Barbara. The hardest part is confining it to just one line, so I often write 2 or 3 lines. 🙂 Thankfully the space constraints in the book keep me from expanding it more than that.

Here’s a tip that helps me tremendously with it: Because I access my digital calendar so often during the day, it’s where I initially record my “line” each day, then I transfer them by hand to my actual book several times a week. It’s been great to also have those lines on my computer because I often need to do a search for something and having it digitized is such a help. (Hope that makes sense!)