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[quote=Anonymous]Dear All, this is OP.  thank you to everyone for weighing in -- your opinions are important and I realized I should consider our son might also like my journals, not just our daughter.  I remember getting a locket diary when I was my daughter's age and I carried it everywhere with me.  My influences at the time were Harriet the Spy and the fact that we were a military family so a lot of what I wrote during my teen years were "letters" to friends I'd left behind.  The reason I mentioned a grad student wanting to do a study on my life is from an AMST class I had in college -- the journal we read was about a pioneer woman in Kansas who wrote about life on the prairie, her "pin money" and just little things that ended up becoming a book that I was assigned as a student in the nineties.  I have no illusion that my life is any more interesting that anyone else but I take comfort that my children will one day want to read these journals and maybe they'll feel comforted to know me even though I'm gone.  I have also begun to go through early videos with the kids to try to create some positive memories.  They love to hear about themselves, when they were born, first words, walking, etc.  I may feel like shit but it's important to be strong for them, I think.  I haven't mentioned the journals -- they are too young.  But I have talked to my spouse and requested that when he feels it's the right time, he pass them on.[/quote]

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