Mothers Day Comes Early

Anyone who has ever searched the drugstore shelves in the middle of the night, just hours before Mothers Day dawns, knows how difficult it can be to find that perfect gift for the mom in our lives. Children concentrate all their energy on painted pots and homemade cards, while fathers everywhere try to find that unique treasure to express their gratitude to the mother of their children.

(PRWEB) April 12, 2004 --Anyone who has ever searched the drugstore shelves in the middle of the night, just hours before Mothers Day dawns, knows how difficult it can be to find that perfect gift for the mom in our lives. Children concentrate all their energy on painted pots and homemade cards, while fathers everywhere try to find that unique treasure to express their gratitude to the mother of their children. During this time of creativity and somewhat high levels of stress, what can we find the mother doing? If she is the mother of a newborn, she can usually be found in her pajamas, trying to catch just a few precious minutes of sleep until it is time to be woken up in order to feed, change and rock the cherished newborn whose care she has been entrusted with. At no other time in a womans life are there more challenges and feelings of inadequacy, accompanied by overwhelming emotions of intense love and devotion for another human being. Kristen Simpkins has captured all of these emotions and more in her new book, A Mothers Journal -- An Honest Account of the First Year of Motherhood.

Kristen Simpkins is the mother of two young children, and when she became a mother for the first time, she was completely overwhelmed. She had read numerous childcare books during her pregnancy, but none of them had given her a realistic idea of what it would truly be like to be a mother. She wrote this book in the hope that other new moms could read about her experiences and take some comfort from knowing that all the struggles they are going through as they adjust to motherhood are ones that other mothers have also gone through, and survived!

Linda Eyre, herself the mother of nine children and author of numerous parenting books, says, This delightfully honest Mothers Journal written by Kristen Simpkins, takes those who have delivered a first child on an almost startling journey down memory lane with a wince and a smile as she expresses so many of the feelings that every mother encounters during labor, delivery, nursing and the first year of the babys life. Through reading Kristens innermost struggles to adapt and learn, to be better and sometimes just to survive, those who are mothers will smile to remember and those who are about to experience this life-changing adventure will remember to smile."

If you would like to provide the mom (or soon-to-be-mom!) in your life with a real treasure this year and avoid the drugstore shelves altogether, pick up a copy of Kristen Simpkins journey through motherhood, A Mothers Journal -- An Honest Account of the First Year of Motherhood, available at a discount online at the Publisher Direct Bookstore at http://www.pdbookstore.com.