Welcome Lulu!

We hope your little girl is in our world very soon! Keep us posted as you can. I do have a few choices for your post-pregnancy reading...depending what you are in the mood for. I enjoyed each of these and they were pleasant (although not necessarily gentle) reads and easy to get into. You should be able to find them at a local library or from Amazon. If I had them anymore, I would send them to you...alas, they have passed on to other hands.

• The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (Erdrich). This is such a sweet book! The author tells of her pregnancy with her third girl (out of six children) and a bit about the little one's first year. You may be saturated with pregnancy, however and want to read this a little later.
• Nothing To Do But Stay: Memories of My Mother (Young). About a 25-year old single woman from Minnesota who goes to North Dakota to homestead in the early 1900s.
• Mothers of the Prophets (Arrington). Just what the title suggests. It was intriguing to me that each of the mothers were different (stepmoms, single, divorced, widowed). I was continually surprised. Our prophets were blessed to have such great mothers...and we can emulate these women!
• The Color of Water (McBride). A black man's tribute to his white mother. I couldn't put this one down and had to pass it on to Annie, who also loved it. Just a good read about a good woman.
• Mormon Healer and Folk Poet (Brady). Bio of Mary Susannah Sumner Fackrell (quite the handle) who spent much of her childhood and mature life in Orderville, Utah trying to live the United Order with the rest of the saints. She was known for her healing abilities. I liked the fact that she was not a typical Utah pioneer woman...or at least the kind that people write about!
• Into the Wild (Krakauer)."What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone?” Not "motherly" at all but such a fun read. I referred to it in seminary to teach some principles about choices and consequences.

Good luck in your choosing! If you don't read with us this month you can always start in July. I'm glad you're with us.