5 Reasons This Journal Was Made for Both of You

1. It Follows the Same Chapters She Is Already Reading

The journal is organized by week, matching the 2027 Come, Follow Me New Testament schedule. Week 1 is Matthew 1 and Luke 1. Week 13 is Easter. Week 52 is Christmas. Every week is labeled by chapter, not by date.

That means she does not need to learn a new reading plan. If she already studies Come, Follow Me at home, she is already reading these chapters. The journal just gives her a place to write about them and a reason to sit down with the grandchild while they are fresh.

52 weeks. 52 short passages from the King James Version, printed right on the page in large type so she never has to look them up.

A Year With Grandma is published by Bountiful Press, an independent publisher. It is not a Church publication.

2. Her Page Was Built for Women Who Say "I Am Not a Writer"

Every grandmother's page has three things: the week's scripture passage in large type, one question, and wide ruled lines.

That is it. No blank page. No open-ended prompt asking her to pour out her soul. Just one question written to match the passage she already read that week, asking for a memory or her testimony, and enough space to answer it in her own words.

Some weeks she will write three lines. Some weeks she will fill the page. Both are fine. The journal never asks for more than she wants to give. If there is a half-filled journal in a drawer somewhere, she is exactly who this page was built for.

3. The Grandchild Gets Their Own Page Every Week

This is the part most people do not expect.

Across from every grandmother's page is the grandchild's page. It has a five-minute activity to do together, tied to the week's reading, a simple question for the child, and a big open box to draw or write in.

The child does not need to read or write yet. A child who can hold a crayon can use the page. And at the bottom of every one, a small line reads: "Grandma, ask me about this."

That is how the journal becomes a conversation, not a chore. The child draws something. Grandma asks about it. And both of them end up in the book, in their own handwriting.

4. There Is No Falling Behind

The journal follows the Come, Follow Me schedule by chapter, not by calendar date. The dates sit on one schedule page at the front. No spread has a date on it. If she misses a week, she picks up wherever she is in her reading. No guilt. No gaps to fill in. No catching up.

The "how to use this book" page at the front says it plainly: do the page whenever you get to it. A late week is fine.

And if the grandchild lives far away, that is fine too. She writes her page at home. The grandchild's page can happen over a phone or video call, with Grandma reading the question and writing down what the child says. Or the book goes in the mail, a parent sits with the child for that page, and it comes back. Or it waits for the next visit. There is no schedule for when that has to happen.

5. After a Year, It Is a Keepsake in Her Own Handwriting

When the year is done, the journal holds 52 pages in her handwriting, one for each week of the 2027 New Testament year, each one facing a page that belongs to the child. Plus her two-page letter at the front.

It starts as one page a week. It ends as a keepsake. Her words, her testimony, her everyday memories, in her own hand, with the child's page across from every one of them. One book, on one shelf, with no password.

It was made to be kept.