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Love Mommy: Writing Love Letters to Your Baby
Book Review:
Love, Mommy: Writing Love Letters to Your Baby
by
Judy Siblin-Librach
Review by Susie Cortright,
Momscape.com
My kids never tire of hearing the same stories: "Tell me what I said
when I first met my baby brother," my daughter pleads. She has heard the
same story – the same way - countless times, and she luxuriates in the
knowledge that I love to tell the story as much as she loves to hear it.
All moms know how their kids' eyes light up when they hear stories about
themselves.
All moms also know that when a mother takes the time to record these
precious stories in written form, she preserves a mystery and a magic
that is impossible to recapture any other way. Still, even the most
well-intentioned of us (myself included) have a hard time following
through when we have something we wish to write down, particularly those
everyday details that make up our lives. Sometimes we are swept away by
the daily tasks of motherhood and sometimes we are simply too deep in
the enjoyment of the experience itself to take the time out to write
about it just then. Sometimes it all seems too much to do, but more
often it is a gentle ebbing away of the time.
In
Love, Mommy: Writing Love Letters to Your Baby, Judy Siblin-Librach
leads us on a journey that helps us capture the major milestones (the
birth story, the first day at school) as well as those that may not
immediately come to mind (the first time your child caught a baseball,
the way her hugs felt, the first time she went through a car wash).
Siblin-Librach's writing style is elegant, perfectly capturing the depth
of emotion that all of us mothers feel at one point or another. We
are in good hands with a natural-born poet and mother who will lead us
into creating and recording the lyrics of our own lives.
Part of the beauty of this book is the way Siblin-Librach makes it
simple to write these life stories, whether or not you have ever enjoyed
the process of writing in the past. The book is equally helpful in
bringing back memories you may have thought were gone, just in case your
baby has grown.
Siblin-Librach opens each chapter with incisive questions to prompt your
writing, followed by sample letters from her own family. These examples
can really help you to get an idea of all the different ways you can
take a particular letter.
The author includes notes to parents about how to write the letter, as
well as tips and ideas to keep you inspired in this grand task. The book
helps us to record the specific stories and memories, as well as the
deeper story: the wisdom, the life lessons and the wishes you have for
your child.
Judy Siblin-Librach has written a beautiful and heartfelt book that
reminds us it needn't be a big deal to record these memories and to give
ourselves and our children the greatest gift. In doing so, she has given
a gift to all mothers and all those who will be mothers.
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