 | | I’m so excited to share with you our very first Good Housekeeping Planner. Our 2020 diary is packed with GH goodness on every page: delicious top-tested recipes, genius self-care tips, seasonal decor ideas, brilliant cleaning tricks and more, more, more, all aligned to the time of year. | | It embodies something I’ve been thinking about a lot: the power of documenting the ordinary. A simple to-do can become a reminder of all you’ve achieved and all the good that is yet to come. |
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| | My grandmother used to record the goings-on of her days in a very simple notebook. She didn’t pour her heart out, but instead detailed her every moment…daily. A typical entry might read something like: “Went to Knob Hill Farms [her favorite grocery store, which was kind of a bulk-food farmers’ market] and got five baskets of ripe tomatoes for chili sauce. Then bumped into Evelyn. Had a nice talk with her about her grandson. Jane came over after school to chat and had some of my bread.” | | Her journal was essentially a life tracker, reminding Grandma what she’d done and whom she’d seen. Her goal was to recall both little details and the momentous occasions. Her journal was a true memory chest – a constant reminder for her of how full...of friends, family, creativity, productivity, accomplishment – her days and life were. That set of books (43 of them, starting when she was in her 20s) was eventually passed down to her eight kids and 21 grandchildren (me!). I am still so thankful that we have access to these snapshots of her life in her own handwriting. I hope you find our planner to be just as keepsake-worthy. |  |  | | Check out this sneak peek inside the fun and fabulous pages (above) then join me in putting pen to paper, Grandma-style! |  |
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