Does being pregnant give me enough leverage to get my husband to stay up late to write a book review for my blog? Um, yeah it does! This book had been laying on the back of the toilet for the last 9 months, all the while I was reminding Shaun that at some [...]
As I’m sure you’ve gathered over the last 8ish months, I’m having a baby here real, real soon. Shaun and I are both more excited about this than anything ever. We even got the crib put together in the baby’s room and everything is getting way real. I do however, have these little fears that [...]
The Book: Operating Instructions: A Journal of my Son’s First Year, by Anne Lamott
The Story: If you’ve ever read Anne Lamott before you know that she has quite the history (drug addict, alcoholic, yadda yadda) and quite the circle of friends. She converted to Christianity later in her life and is still figuring out all [...]
The Book: Callie’s Tally: An Accounting of Baby’s First Year or What My Daughter Owes Me!, by Betsy Howie
The Story: Betsy Howie is in her late 30’s when she finds out she is pregnant. She’s pretty thrilled. She reads somewhere that it’s like 190,000 bucks to raise a kid from birth to 18 and she [...]
The Book: The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy: On Everything your Doctor Won’t Tell you; by Vicki Iovine
The Story: Kind of just another pregnancy “tell all.” The idea behind this one is that it’s a lot of compiled information. The author has talked to tons of her “girlfriends” and gotten the real lowdown on pregnancy, from [...]
The Book: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, by Ayelet Waldman
The Story: Emilia lives in an amazing apartment with her amazing lawyer husband who was a married man when they met and fell in love. He chose her and they are pretty much living the dream. With just a couple of exceptions. Emilia doesn’t like her [...]
The Book: Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do When Your Miracle Makes You Miserable, by Joanne Kimes
The Story: The story is simply this: Joanne got pregnant after months and months of trying. Joanne got whiny.
That’s basically it.
This book is set up in a month-by-month format, which is kinda funny because in the start of the book [...]
The Book: Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Child birth, by Jenny McCarthy
The Story: Former Playmate and host of that hilarious show on MTV (Singled Out?) gets pregnant. She and her husband had been trying for awhile, so she was excited but also totally shocked.
The book is set up in these short little [...]
The Book: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
This review is going to be a little bit different than my normal review set-up. The reason? I do not want to pass on any of the information that I got from this book. I don’t want to tell you the “story,” so I’ll just hop right to [...]