My first journal prompt :).
Sometimes when I really want to journal I look for a journal prompt. It may be from a magazine or looking through scrap magazines. Sometimes they come out of a conversation I may have. The other day my son and I were talking. Then he starts throwing out these math problems. "Mommy, what's 17 + 25? What's 10 x 11? What's 84 - 35?" Math all. day. long. It's great that my son loves math so much, but my brain isn't that fast. My son is another story. He has this math savant brain. So I ask him, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" He looks at me with all seriousness and says, "I want do math." So I say to him, "Well, people that do math are called mathematicians." He replies, "Then I'm going to be a mathematician when I grow up." Ain't too shabby.
This conversation prompted me to journal this in a roundabout way on my latest scrapbook layout. I used Emily Merrit's great Second Hour Math kit and her Geometric papers at We Are Storytellers. Between the kit and the journaling this just flowed.
So use those everyday conversations to get you started on a great journaling layout.
