handmade vacation journals

One of the best things I did to get ready for our week of vacation this summer was make vacation journals. The night before we left, I decided that we should have a way to record our memories throughout the week, so I made journals for each of the kids — and then made one more for myself.

I printed our destination and the year on a sheet of cardstock and stapled it together with six sheets of white paper. Then I folded it in half and called it done. It wasn’t fancy… but it was the night before we left.

The kids and I had a great time writing in our journals during the week — and they also enjoyed drawing pictures of some of our activities, like eating ice cream at Mister Whippy.

We wrote about the places we went, the food we ate, and how we felt about being on vacation — from the first day…

… to the last.

And while I was looking through our vacation photos to find these pictures, I decided to finally print out a bunch of photos from our trip to put in a big collage frame in the hallway. Great vacations are worth remembering often!