Journals/How to add a journal entry

This is the label for Journals!  The whole reason we started this blog! Please make sure to follow these instructions to add a new Journal entry to the blog.  I don't want to simply copy and paste journals into a new post because that can be messy, and it will make the blog posts extremely long, and hard to format into a book, or to simply print new additions as they are added to the blog.

Our blog will not allow you to directly attach a document to the blog.  Stinky, I know.  However, there is a way around this.  We simply will create a Google document and then attach the web address of the document.  You can then download the document to your computer and Tadaa!  (If this is too tricky for you, just e-mail me the journals, and I will do this part for you!)  However, doing it for yourself is the best way to go!

Here are the instructions:

1) Type the journal into a word document.  (You can categorize this however you want.  I typically do a new word document for each new journal I type.  That way my documents aren't to large, and they easily follow the chronological order that Grandma wrote them in!)  Make sure they are saved and titled in a way that you can find and identify them easily!

2) Go to www.docs.google.com or click here.

3) Log in with your Google account information (this is the same for your gmail, blogger, google plus, etc...)

4) On the main screen, click on the upload button (it is right next to the button labeled "create")

5) Click "files"

6) Find the document/file that contains the Journal entry and click "open"

7) Click on the title of the new Google document, it will open the document, at the top of the page there is a button titled "open." Click on it.

8) You will now be in a new page with a new web address.  Copy and paste the web address

9) Now you are ready to add the document to the blog. Simply create a new post, and add the link to the blog. You do this by clicking the "link" button at the top of the post and adding the web url where it tells you to.  If you are confused, you can click this link to learn how to add a link. https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/41379?hl=en

Your journal entry is now added to the blog in a tidy, neat way!  Thanks for doing it this way, I really think this is the best way to keep things organized.  And like I said, if this is way to confusing for you, simply e-mail the document to me and I will upload it to the blog for you!

p.s. you can always download the document once you have opened it on it's personal web page.