I created the Joy Journal ™ family of keepsake journals as a combination diary, journal, family history, and informational recording system. This family of journals can help record memories and important information in minutes. Just five minutes - a day, a week or special event - to memorialize your life, your baby or toddler's life, and teenager's life for an eternity! Journaling made simple...memories recorded in minutes rather than hours! Use these pages to capture your family story by year or by special life event. Record your life details along with the emotions surrounding that event or day. Also, record the world events that are occurring in the midst of your own family history. You can fill in as much or as little of the detail that you want to. The journal is easy to use - take five-to-ten minutes a day to tell your life story. What a wonderful gift to pass onto the next generation, spouse, parent or close friend. Too often family memories are lost when a member of the family passes. Most of us do not take the time to talk to our parents, grandparents, aunts, or uncles to learn about our families - who family members were, if we acted or looked like a particular person, how they interacted with each other, what they thought, what made them laugh, cry or just the ways in which they lived their day-to-day lives. Start today to record your life, so that your gift...your life - can be shared with your present family members, future generations, or yourself. With the family addition of our granddaughter McKayla Jade, I had the desire to write about my life and family today so that our family lived on through her eyes and heart tomorrow. It is with love that I dedicate the Joy Journal ™ line to my husband Ed, daughter Jessie Leah and granddaughter McKayla Jade. Tell someone your Life Story the Joy Journal ™ way! Enjoy the process and happy recording! Joy Lynn