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On January 2nd my daughter-in-law handed me a laundry basket. It was full of the toys I bought for Christmas. A doll with her head off. A robot missing both arms. A drone with three propellers. A light-up unicorn that wouldn't light up. Batteries everywhere. She said, "Bren, can you take these? Just too many toys stresses me out these days." She said it nicely. She's a nice girl. I carried that basket to my car and sat in the driveway with it in the passenger seat like a passenger. $612. I added it up later. $612 of Christmas, broken or forgotten in 8 days. I'm 71. I have 7 grandchildren in 3 different houses. Every year I make the list on the back of an envelope in September. Names down one side, ages, sizes, what they're into this year. Every year I tell myself I'm going to keep it simple. And every year I end up in the toy aisle on a Saturday in December buying whatever has the most lights on the box. Because I want to see their faces. I always say, "Christmas is about Jesus, not presents." I've said it at every Christmas dinner for 40 years. And then I spend the whole December budget on plastic. And I give them nothing about Jesus. Nothing. Sitting in that driveway, with a headless doll looking up at me from the passenger seat, I finally heard myself. I'm the grandma who gives stuff. Not the one who gives faith. That's what my grandkids are going to remember. Grandma brings the loud toys. My own grandmother gave me a little New Testament when I was 6. I still have it. I don't remember a single toy she ever gave me. I remember that. So what was I going to be for these 7 kids? I'd tried before. A children's Bible one year. Too long, too many pages, it sat on a shelf. Single books from the church table, one per child, that got lost in the toy bin. Gift cards, which my son spends on sneakers. Here's what changed it. In February my sister Joan sent a set of books to her great-grandson. I was at her house when he came over. He's 4. Busy little boy. Never sits still. He walked right past the TV and pulled a thin bright book off her side table. I Am Brave. He climbed into Joan's lap and said, "Read it." She read it. It took about 4 minutes. He said, "Again." She read it again. He said, "Again!" Four times. I counted. Then he went and got another one. I asked Joan what they were. The With Jesus Series by G.L. Charles. 11 books in a set. Each one is short. Each one is about one real thing a little one goes through. Being scared. Being mad. Telling the truth. And Jesus is right there with the child in every story. Jesus on every page. A verse at the end. I'm not a pushover. I've bought plenty of "Christian" gifts that turned out to be a cartoon with a cross on the cover. But I had just watched a 4-year-old pick a book about Jesus over a television. Four times. $59 for all 11. Regular price $165. That's $5.36 a book. Less than one of those light-up unicorns. And they had a deal: buy 2 sets, get the 3rd one free. 3 sets for $118. 3 sets. One checkout. One set for every house. So that's what I did. They came to my house, and that Saturday I drove them around myself. One set to my son's house. One to my daughter's. One to my youngest boy's. Same set to every house so nobody can say Grandma has favorites. Free shipping. Here's what came back to me. My granddaughter Mia, who's 8, started reading them to her little brothers. She sent me a video. Her, on the floor, two little boys leaning on her, hanging on every word. My son's 3-year-old calls them "Grandma's Jesus books." He won't let anybody else's books on that shelf. And my daughter-in-law, the one with the laundry basket, sent me a text in April. "The kids still ask for your books every night. Thank you for not sending more toys. I mean that." April. The toys from December were long gone. The books were still being read. This Christmas I'm not buying the loudest thing on the shelf. Every one of my 7 grandkids is getting a book about Jesus from Grandma. This Christmas every house gets Series 2, the next 11 books. They'll get one toy each too. I'm not a monster. But I know which gift will still be in the house at Easter. Over 75,000 copies sold. I understand why now. If you're a grandma with a long list and a short budget, look at that list. Every toy on it will be broken or forgotten by New Year's. Give them the one gift they'll ask you to read again. 👉 Tap below to get 3 sets for $118, one for every house on your list. P.S. I kept the headless doll. It sits on my sewing table. Every time I'm tempted by a toy aisle, I look at her. Dramatization based on customer experiences. Individual results vary.

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11 Books, $59

11 Books, $59