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Journaling happens to be a weak spot for me. I've found that when I "in the Zone" I should take advantage of it and write as much as I can.

I have been writing down quotes of things that my 3 year old and 5 year old say. They are priceless and are fun to incorporate into the scrapbook page.

hmmm ... best tip? i need to take my own advice and write my stories when they happen before i forget the details, which is usually what make them so rich.

if you work or are at a computer all day, keep bits or journaling on that so taht you can jot down whatever is on your mind without feeling you must come home and put in down in a journal. you can always email the info to yourself at home and keep a running journal that way, no matter where you are.

I used to struggle a lot with whether to write in first person or third person. Now, I just write everything as though I am talking about it to the reader. If I write in my daughter's books I say things like "you did" in our family books I say "we." I also really like journaling on the computer. I can type faster than I write and it helps me get it all out of my head and onto paper!

I often turn to my daily journal or my blog for journaling. If I don't have either for a particular story, I often think of my journaling as a short letter to the person the page is about. It makes it easier to write if I feel like I'm talking to someone!

I try to write down a story or event when it is fresh in my mind. If I don't I tend to forget the little details...

Document on small notebook or tags. I try to journal in bits if we are on a trip or i have a story to tell.
Jess

I still struggle to keep up with journaling, but one thing I do is keep a "quote" list for my kids in a simple text document on my computer's desktop. Anytime one of my kids utters a classic, I quickly type it out with the date and circumstances. I did a very cute scrapbook layout once with some of the cute classic quotes and cute photos. It's one of my favorites!

I stick to the basic text and let the pictures tell the obvious stories. When more documentation is required, I just write from the heart.

My favorite way to journal is to "interview" my kids or just repeat a conversation that I've had with my kids. Very authentic and it's great looking back years later to see what they had to say!

My journaling for the most part I share with the world ... I blog about it! I've used my blog to go back and see what I wrote about the moment several times. It's a great way to share with family and friends AND keep your thoughts as a diary. Good luck to all. :)

keep a daily journal and when you are ready to scrap--you've got your journaling already done

I have started keeping an almost daily journal so when I get around to scrapping any photos, I will have more information that I wrote down at the time, when the photos were taken. I type it in to a Word document and have the latest journal entry at the top of the document, with the day and date that I post something. Sometimes I take writing that I have posted elsewhere, like on threads at Two Peas In a Bucket and just cut and paste it to my journaling document. It seemed to me that in the past by the time I got around to scrapping something, I had forgotten a lot of the emotion or feelings that were going on at the time or even just basic details. So the journal has really helped me.

I will sometimes show a set pf pictures to the kids and document what they say about them. It's neat to get their perspective. (Most of the pages are told from mine) Sometimes when they were young, they stories were a little...lets say...dis-jointed...meaning they really skip around, but you can always make your journaling look like Q & A type journaling.
j.

My best journaling tip--write it down when you think about it! Too often I've thought "oh, I'll remember this" and then don't when it comes time to journal. Now I either try to blog about it or write in my handy-dandy notebook that is always nearby.

I really only have time to scrapbook my kids right now so when I journal, I talk directly to them. When I go back and read old pages, I like how my entries have a lot of affection and 'voice'.

i always journal by hand, mostly because it is quick and immediate! I like to think about what i felt at the moment the picture was taken and write about that!

My best tip for journaling is to just do it right away. I don't consider a page completed until the journaling is done, and I love to actually complete the page, so I always do the journaling right away, even if it's not "perfect."

Tip: Scribble out quckly some bullet points about the topic then go back and expand into sentences.