Common Place Book January 2026

Okay - I have to say - 

I LOVED doing my Common Place Book pages each week last year!  

 [and I'm loving AI photos a bit too much, maybe!]

I started the year with the in-between week with  Kelly Bangs [- SO FUN!] and listed some goals, habits, word and scripture for the year - 

  

then filled a page with memes that inspire me -  

 

Our January was busy and filled with all sorts of wonderful things... and also some things that took me by surprise and sadness.. 

But I choose to focus on the good - 

 

Another spread with memes regarding my Word of the Year - LIGHT - 

God's light will guide us - and also, 

God wants us to shine His light for others to see - 

[I've had a 'word of the year' for over 20 years now...] 

 

After our week in Santa Rosa Beach, we moved over to Gulf State Park - 

a forever favorite of ours! 

And then on a whim, we drove over and stayed at Biloxi Bay in Mississippi.  

Another spread of memes I've collected... 

 

And sometimes I journal things that 

I don't need to share with the world...

know what I mean? 

 
The last spread for January is a pocket page with more memes - HA - and a page I completed with my Kansas girls via zoom...

   

And the last week of January - 

SO {{SOOOOO}} COLD -

But no snow or ice for us!

We stayed cozy and caught up with friends and our retirement job - lol - 

So there it is - 

my common place book

Just bits and pieces of my life each week -