I like to think of a dream journal as a pair of training wheels to practice remembering your dreams. Well, now that school has started, my dream recall has been atrocious and I'm not even going to begin talking about my dry spell. Guess now I need those training wheels :S. Anyway, yeah, it is completely normal to remember all or part of your dream. However, the more you remember the better. It sucks to forget a lucid dream!