It’s time for another blog hop! The “I’m a Celebrity Look-Alike” blog hop was a blast and I thought it would be fun to try something a little different.
Are you ready? I’m proud to introduce…..
“Dear Diary”
A collection of embarrassing and cringe-worthy entries from childhood diaries.
This concept has been floating around clubs and coffee shops for a while now. The basic idea is that a group of adults get together and read out loudfrom their childhood diaries. I know, doesn’t it just make you squirm? I had the pleasure of attending one of these shows during my trip to San Francisco and let me tell you: I laughed so hard that I nearly peed my pants. True story.
I am sad to report that all my childhood diaries have been destroyed (by me). I came across them right after I got married and they were just too painful to read. The poetry, the teenage angst, hatred towards my parental units, and lamenting over unrequited love…. It was more than my fragile psyche could handle, so off to the trash they went. It’s one of the major regrets I have.
That being said, I am lucky enough that my parents saved two of my letters from the sleep-away camp I attended during the summer of 1991. I was not quite 11. While they may not be cringe-worty, they are certainly good for a laugh.
Dear Diary….
Dear Mom + Dad,
Please, please, PLEASE!!!!, get me home. I really mean it to. I am NOT having a good time. I swear on a trillion stack of bibles I want to go home. I don’t know why. I just hate it 1st session here. Please call me.
Love + saddness,
Morgan
Dear mom + dad,
Camp has been o-kay. It is a little lonely without Amy. So far I am the oldest one. I have not made any new “kid friends”. I miss you alot already.
Love,
Morgan
xoxoxoxo
PS: Give Madisson a kiss for me!
I can see now how my teenage years down spiraled into a period of high-drama, self-expression, overuse of quotation marks, and love for Lisa Frank. It was a conflicted time for me.
Also? I’m glad I figured out “alot” is actually two words, but still I haven’t been able to shake the xoxo from the end of a correspondence. Interesting.
Now, I know some of you have some really good stuff locked away in your closets and garages. Maybe you were an aspiring song writer or poetry major. Maybe you wrote letters to your celebrity-crush or a pen pal. There are no rules here- just keep it real.
It’s time to bust out those old diaries and link up to my “Dear Diary” blog hop! The linky ends on August 8th, so you have plenty of time to get over your embarrassment and join in the fun! You can grab the “Dear Diary” image from the code on the sidebar to your left, and don’t forget to add the link to your post by clicking on the little blue froggie below.
xoxo
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48 comments
IT. IS. ON.
Do teenage diary entries count? p-p-p-p-lease?
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:31 am
I'm still waiting for you to embarrass yourself! Hurry!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:31 am
I'm still waiting for you to embarrass yourself! Hurry!
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Sounds fun, I'm going to dig through some boxes today.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:32 am
DId you find anything?
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:32 am
DId you find anything?
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Ohhhhh, I've got some doozies…remember those 5th and 6th grade-type letters, the ones you folded into all different type shapes and wrote ad nauseam to your best friend(s) because that person changed daily and sometimes was the topic of the "letter" — oh, and then you passed them in class when the teacher wasn't looking and stealthly read them under your desk or books? I've got boxes of those. This is going to be hilarious!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:32 am
You are so good at record keeping! I remember looking through one of your old high school albums. You saved everything!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:32 am
You are so good at record keeping! I remember looking through one of your old high school albums. You saved everything!
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Oh. My. Stars. Those letter are the height of hilarity. I'm going to adopt "I swear on a trillion stack of bibles" as my new saying.
XOXO
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:36 am
I swear on a trillion stack of bibles Mai Weston, that you better bust out some of your high school diaries or I will be like so totally mad at your for at least ten seconds. Can I have a private viewing?
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:36 am
I swear on a trillion stack of bibles Mai Weston, that you better bust out some of your high school diaries or I will be like so totally mad at your for at least ten seconds. Can I have a private viewing?
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Hilarious! I also threw away all my childhood and teenage diaries. I think I was still afraid my mom would find out that I wrote about what a Mean Mom she was for not letting me have my way and get upset about it. She's Southern, so it's not that far fetched! But I found some good photos I'll post.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:38 am
I can't wait to see the photos! I wrote such awful and terrible things about my parents in my diary. I only pray they never read those spiteful words. Eeeek!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:38 am
I can't wait to see the photos! I wrote such awful and terrible things about my parents in my diary. I only pray they never read those spiteful words. Eeeek!
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Every time you tell me about throwing away your diaries, I die a little inside. ALL THOSE WORDS. I can't take it.
In other news, I will more than make up for it. I've got diaries out the ass that would make a pre-pubescent girl blush.
And…can't wait to do out thing! You know.
XO.
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Deb @ San Diego Momm Reply:
July 8th, 2011 at 12:53 am
OUR thing I mean. You're gonna have to emcee, because I can't even write the words right, much less say them.
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Deb @ San Diego Momm Reply:
July 8th, 2011 at 12:53 am
OUR thing I mean. You're gonna have to emcee, because I can't even write the words right, much less say them.
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oh my goodness, I love this…..seriously…..I'm going to have to go find some of my "poems" for sure…what a great idea.
(and don't forget to link up to my SUMMER OF SOLE blog Hop….!!!)
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:44 am
Poems would be an AMAZING addition! I'll be waiting with anticipation.
I'll definitely check out your blog hop!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:44 am
Poems would be an AMAZING addition! I'll be waiting with anticipation.
I'll definitely check out your blog hop!
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That is awesome. I never wrote or called home from camp and I didn't keep a diary.
XOXOXO
PS I didn't keep a diary because my sister kept several. I read them all and realized if I could break into hers, someone could break into mine. All of my little thoughts stayed in my head…and a slam book or four.
PPS I may be able to find something post-worthy, though.
PPPS If I'm lucky, I'll find one of my sister's diaries!!!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:46 am
You were wise beyond your years my friend.
XOXO
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:46 am
You were wise beyond your years my friend.
XOXO
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Mine are beyond cringe worthy…I had been thinking of doing something like this
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:49 am
Oh, please link up! I just know that yours will blow everyone out of the water.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:49 am
Oh, please link up! I just know that yours will blow everyone out of the water.
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I wish I had seen this yesterday, while at my parents' house, so that I could have snagged some of the notes and journals that are hidden away in dresser drawers.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:53 am
Too bad!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:53 am
Too bad!
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I wish I had some. Maybe there are some letters around, but every time I tried to write in a diary I was too horrified that someone would read the words I wanted to write. Never had the courage. Of course, I journal all the time now. I wish I had done it back then! (Or maybe I don’t ?)
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:42 am
I'm going to go with maybe you don't. It was torture reading my old diaries. While I'm sad they are gone, I don't know if I could survive reading them today. Eeeeek!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:42 am
I'm going to go with maybe you don't. It was torture reading my old diaries. While I'm sad they are gone, I don't know if I could survive reading them today. Eeeeek!
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‘love and sadness’ that is exactly something my 11 year old would write now! Lol even though she loves sleep away camp:) I don’t have any letters though my mom probably have some. That was too funny
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:45 am
I remember writing that letter and choosing the words "love and sadness" carefully because I really felt they evoked the torture my spirit was feeling. Hahahaha!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:45 am
I remember writing that letter and choosing the words "love and sadness" carefully because I really felt they evoked the torture my spirit was feeling. Hahahaha!
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As a kid I was a hopeless romantic and was all in on poetry. I thought poetry was the way to a young ladies heart. I don't believe any records of my poetic endeavors exist anymore but if they do they will be quite embarrassing. Poetry was not the romantic tool that everyone said it was. Damn you TV!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:55 am
I would probably would have barfed and died if a boy had read poetry to me. I'm glad you gave it up.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:55 am
I would probably would have barfed and died if a boy had read poetry to me. I'm glad you gave it up.
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Sadly, I think mine are gone as well. And yes, full of melodrama, kiss lists, angst and worse.
Recently my mother nonchalantly, while unloading the dishwasher, told me she read one of mine. She reported that I had written that I wanted to be just like my middle brother AND that she had told that brother of my writing.
I was mortified. I asked her not to say another thing about it, to me or to him. I LONG AGO lost any admiration for that brother and still question if I ever wrote such a thing, never mind the betrayal, the invasion.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:47 am
Omg- I HATE that that happened to you!!!!!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:47 am
Omg- I HATE that that happened to you!!!!!
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What an awesome idea for a blog hop!! I can’t wait to read others. Sadly, I can’t participate as I don’t have any of my old diaries either. They were trashed long long ago.
Lisa Frank rocked!! I wonder what she’s up to these days?
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:49 am
She's probably kicking it an an old folk's home with The Garbage Pail Kids.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:49 am
She's probably kicking it an an old folk's home with The Garbage Pail Kids.
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“I swear on a trillion stack of bibles” and …new “kid friends”
Too funny. I can actually see my son using “kid friends” in his vocabulary thus “friends” has become his favorite word.
Unfortunately, I don’t own a diary. If I ever did (which I don’t remember) my mom probably stole it and burned it…or is still thinking of a way to use it against me!
Thanks for sharing and thank your parents for keeping these letters.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:51 am
I dont' know what I meant by "kid friends." Were the counselors the only ones I befriended? Were all the kids younger than me and I felt like they were babies? Who knows!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:51 am
I dont' know what I meant by "kid friends." Were the counselors the only ones I befriended? Were all the kids younger than me and I felt like they were babies? Who knows!
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I’m totally digging the stationary. I can’t wait to dig out my diary, though frankly I don’t know if I have the balls to post them. This is a great blog hop!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:51 am
Even if I had my teenage diaries I don't think I would be able to post them. It doesn't feel like it was that long ago. I can't laugh at it yet. I hope you will link up!
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:51 am
Even if I had my teenage diaries I don't think I would be able to post them. It doesn't feel like it was that long ago. I can't laugh at it yet. I hope you will link up!
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I never had a diary but as I was sent to a boarding school at 14 I remember writing all kinds of over dramatic letters home – there were pleas, there were complaints, there were threats, there was 'love and sadness' just to be brought home but nothing worked. Hope my Mom keeps them; thanks Morgan for reminding me to look for them!
xoxo
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:58 am
Omg Valentina! Those letters sound amazing! I really, really hope your mom kept them for you. xo
PS: I'm so glad you can access my blog now.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:58 am
Omg Valentina! Those letters sound amazing! I really, really hope your mom kept them for you. xo
PS: I'm so glad you can access my blog now.
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Dear Morgan,
I only wish I had kept a diary! Too many little brothers in my house for me to have dared! I can only imagine the insane levels of drama that would have been contained.
Also, Lisa Frank is the best!
love and sadness,
Maggie
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Maggie Reply:
July 8th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
p.s. I’m pretty sure that’s going to be my new signature on everything from now on! Genius!
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JamieAnne Reply:
July 9th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Me too Maggie, my brother would have used it to torment me. So, I don't have a diary either. I might be able to find some teen-tastic poetry somewhere…
Love and sadness= Uber brillant
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:54 am
Dear Maggie,
You are a smart girl for keeping those words in your head an not in a Lisa Frank notebook.
Love and Sadness,
Morgan
xoxo
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Maggie Reply:
July 8th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
p.s. I’m pretty sure that’s going to be my new signature on everything from now on! Genius!
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JamieAnne Reply:
July 9th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Me too Maggie, my brother would have used it to torment me. So, I don't have a diary either. I might be able to find some teen-tastic poetry somewhere…
Love and sadness= Uber brillant
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:54 am
Dear Maggie,
You are a smart girl for keeping those words in your head an not in a Lisa Frank notebook.
Love and Sadness,
Morgan
xoxo
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Good GRACIOUS! I, too, was a passionate journal-er for much of my adolescence. I'm sad to say that I destroyed all of mine when I came across them again in college.
After seeing Titanic in 3rd grade, I devoted 5 pages of poetic prose about how it was the most beautiful film I'd ever seen.
Yeeeah.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:58 am
Bahahahahaha! That is SO awesome. I heart you.
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thelittlehenhouse Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 3:58 am
Bahahahahaha! That is SO awesome. I heart you.
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A trillion Bibles? That's pretty serious stuff! I think this is the greatest idea for a blog hop. I almost DIED reading Poppy's. I'm inspired to go dig out my little tiny Hallmark diary with a kitten on it (and a bunch of glitter glue) and see what I've got.
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Oh I am laughing! Love & sadness? Way to pull on the heartstrings! Now I've just got to find mine!
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