create a legacy journal

I shared my grandma’s priceless journal with you in THIS recent post and promised to post the journaling prompts I’d used.  Several of the prompts are listed below, in addition to a link of the full list (100+ prompts):

• What is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to you and the worst?
• Describe your first home as a young couple.
• What is your advice to those younger than you?
• Describe the most serious illness or accident you ever had.
• Tell about your life as the children left home – new interests, what you did with the extra time, new employment, moves, etc.
• What would you like to be remembered for?
• Describe a typical day in elementary school.
• Describe a childhood friend and something you did with him or her.
• Tell about your grandchildren – how many, how did you feel about being a grandparent?
• Tell about all of the places you have worked.
• Tell how, when, where you learned to drive, and share any memorable experiences.
• Tell something about each of your children – personalities, talents, and traits.  What makes them unique and special?

Click Here to Download List of Legacy Journal Prompts v.2 (this will bring you to another area of my blog; click on the link there to access the .PDF doc I have created)

Just print up the list, cut out the prompts, and adhere them to an empty journal (one per page).

These spiral bound, hardcover journals from Barnes & Noble work very well AND are only $6.98/each.

The pages are thick enough to even add a few images and/or embellishments.  (Just be sure to choose a large journal, not an itty bitty one!)  I’ll be adding a ribbon closure to mine as well and have encouraged my husband to doctor his cover up using things like THIS and THIS.  Then… START WRITING IN IT.  Not tomorrow, not 5-10 years from now… but TODAY.  I promise it will end up being the best gift you ever give your family.