365 days challenge

MrsDeRuyter87

Shortly after getting engageed I saw a pin on pinterest that caught my eye. The person gave their H a journal on the day of the wedding that she had written in throughout their engagement. I took that idea and ran with it. I decided to write to my FI in the journal EVERY day from the one year to go mark up to the big day. If I could I just want to say I encourage everyone to try this for one reason or another in their life. Some days it was easy and some days it was a challenge. Some days I was mad at him and didn't want to write to him so I put that in the journal. The experience itself brought me to a different level in our relationship. Whether he could tell or not(since he didn't know about the journal) writing to him everyday brought me closer to him and made me appreciate our relationship more. On our wedding day I presented the journal to him during our reveal and he was at a loss for words, very emotional. Since the wedding he has read through a couple random pages and we talk about it. One page was all about things that made me laugh. I said that even though I hate it when he pees with the door open it makes me laugh because we fake banter about it while he does it and his responses make me bust a gut. (things like "we got robbed and all they stole was the bathroom door") The other night sure enough he peed with the door open and when I yelled to him he said that he was only doing it because he knows it makes me laugh. LOL Just wanted to share this great experience with my fellow knotties and say that if journaling is something you are considering I would say you won;t regret it, just be ready for the challenge.  

MyNameIsNot

I love this.  I wouldn't have the patience for it, but what a great gift!

SmileDamnit

I'm not doing that exactly (do have a journal that I plan to give him on our wedding day, but 1. we're only going to be engaged 6 months, and 2. I'm not planning to write it in every day), but I have attempted different 365 Days &/or 52 week projects in the past. I did a "thank you" project where I tried to send a hand written thank you note to a different person each week (...made it 13 weeks. ouch). And, I've tried a 'picture a day' project for 3 years now and have yet to complete it (...made it 325 days once. so close!!). I think I lack long term discipline  

HisGirlFriday13

I did/do something similar. Every week during our engagement, I wrote DH a letter (usually on Sundays, but not always), detailing something we did that week or where we were in our wedding planning, or whatever. 

I've kept it up since the wedding, and he gets really excited for Letter Day.

Cookie Pusher

I have a journal that I've kept since FI and I started dating. I haven't written in it as much lately since work has pretty much been consuming my brain cells. I figure it'll be something nice to give him on some big milestone anniversary so he can read about all the times he annoyed me and all the times he gave me squishy feelings too.

amakayeb

I started writing my fiance cards (really, just a long letter) on our one month anniversary. I gave him one every month. When he moved away just after we got engaged, I gave him a whole stack of "Open When..." cards (as seen on Pinterest--but it totally made sense as cards were already kind of our thing). I started mailing him cards too. I mentioned something once about how much I loved the cards he wrote when he sent me flowers for Valentine's Day and our anniversary, and he decided to start writing more for me. We often have one waiting for the other person when we visit each other, or leave one for after the visit.

I started a little notebook of "Reasons I Want to Marry You"--just one of those mini ones, with one on each page--little things he did like "You gave me your last berry sparkling water, even though that's your favorite kind" or things about him that I love. I gave it to him for Christmas this year.