Guilt

Ok, so I have been feeling guilty about not keeping a journal since my Valiant teach gave me one (I think I was 9). I wrote in it a few times and then tore out the pages because they were so dumb. After feeling the guilt through Young Women's and Young Adult life, my Aunt gave me a new journal when I graduated from the U of U. Guess what...It is completely empty. For the record, that was almost 12 years ago. Which makes me sound so old. Now the guilt is getting worse, but I am too lazy to do anything about it. I have done some scrap booking, although that, too, has gone by the wayside since I've had 3 kids. And I prefer gluing pictures to pages to writing down why the picture was taken. The guilt continues-I have a book for Drew up to age 5 (that was the decided baby book cut off age), Olivia's has her first year, and Simon's is an empty book. Are my 2 little ones going to hate their mom if I die before I hand make their baby books? This too, is not enough motivation for me to actually pull everything out and get my rear in gear. So after all that rambling...Can I please count blogging as journaling? Please??? For some reason it is oh so much easier to type than too sit down with a true journal and write. I would love some validation on this because I am still feeling guilty. I have always been told that journaling should be in your own handwriting so you leave a piece of you behind. Someone please tell me this isn't so!