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January 17 - Hindsight is 20/20 Journaling Challenge

SO many things to choose from, but I landed on this one - my favorite "I told you so" between my husband and me. Thanks for the challenge! 243 words.

 
The journaling wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be for me! However, it took me forever to come up with a page for it!!! Whew! Nevertheless, it was a fun challenge. Thank you! I counted 240 words.



Here is my journaling:
I have so many things in my life I would have done differently if I could. One thing that comes to mind is that I really wish I had spent more time talking with my parents. There are so many questions I have that I can never get answered. My mama died when I was 21 years old. I don’t know anything about her parents, other than her dad made her a little dresser out of tomato crates. Her mama died from tuberculosis at the young age of 38 years. I can’t even find any information about her mama. My mama and I never really talked a lot, and I so regret that.
My daddy lived with me during the last three years of his life. He lived to be 82 years old. Unfortunately, I was never close to my dad. He tried to tell me stories about his life, but at the time, I wasn’t interested. In fact, when he was in his 50’s, I recorded him on a VHS tape telling his life story. A few years later, I needed a tape for my kids, and I recorded over daddy’s tape. I have regretted that for the rest of my life. In hindsight, I wish I had cared to talk to my parents and had spent more time with them. I know i will get to see them in Heaven, and we’ll have a lot to talk about!
 
This was fun! I went with the literal concept of "hindsight is 20/20" ... still laughing at myself about it. I tried so hard to find those goats on that mountain:giggle Word Count is 393.
 
Around 390 words!! Thank you for a challenge that made me really think, now I have a few more ideas for story based pages!
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Thank you so much for this great challenge! It became quite an emotional one for me. My layout tells the story of how we in hindsight noticed the first signs of my grandfather's (who was actually more like a father to me) memory loss during our journey through Indonesia (his country of birth). Not long after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and his memory loss rapidly got worse so he spent the last 7 years of his life in a special nursing home. I'm so very thankful that we were able to go on this last journey with him when we did, so he could share his life stories with us when he still remembered them and us.
The full journaling of 352 words can be read on the layout and in the gallery credits.

 
This was hard for me and I usually love journaling challenges. It's just not a phrase I would usually use but I'm happy with my overall page, so thank you for pushing me and for the great challenge.

 
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I struggled as most of the stuff that would be right up the challenge's street is far too personal to share outloud. So I went with the most recent "hindsight"
 
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