MamaBlogger365 - Spring, Motherhood & Friendships by Stacey Battat

We are so pleased to welcome regular excerpts from Stacey Battat and Kiwi Publishing, home of the Thin Threads series of books. Want to know more? Visit www.thinthreads.com for more story samples or to buy the book!

There are days when we are truly present, and can breathe deeply and take in the beauty of the moment. We must seek out more of those moments to enrich our lives as well as all of our relationships! We have been given that “spring-like” gift this week in the North East (little though do we truly know about long-term repercussions).

Our Thin Threads of Moms & Grandma books are stories about drinking in the moments we love and recognize the small connections that ARE fresh and beautiful about motherhood!

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Submitted by Stacey Battat, Creator of the Thin Threads Book Series, www.thinthreads.com.

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MamaBlogger365 - Cross Roads, a Thin Threads excerpt

We are so pleased to welcome regular excerpts from Stacey Battat and Kiwi Publishing, home of the Thin Threads series of books. Want to know more? Visit www.thinthreads.com for more story samples or to buy the book!

A wise Jewish sage said – “change one person and you change the world.” Over the last five years I have collected real stories for more than ten editions of Thin Threads: Stories of Life Changing Moments, and each of these stories makes me reflect on how a seemingly random interaction can forever change a person.

As mothers, we are offered many chances to meet and embrace our own and others’ children, and we have the power to make a life-altering difference at any one moment in time. By taking the time to listen, encourage and hug a child in need, we change her/his world in ways that we cannot even envision. Here is an excerpt from our anthology that demonstrates this beautifully. Even on cold winter days in Chicago, one woman took advantage of moments each day to impact children at the ‘crossroads’ of their lives:

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MamaBlogger365 - Surviving Marriage: On the Way to an Old Married Couple by Veronica Hosking

"The Talk" hosted their first bookbuzz chat on The Secret Lives of Wives by Iris Krasnow earlier this month. I was sent a copy of the book to read and participate in the conversation on November 11^th.

As everyone knows if you have been following my blog posts, Shawn and I just celebrated our 15^th wedding anniversary. We are well on our way to this destination of old married couple. I found the stories Ms. Krasnow fleshed out in her book to be quite interesting. I started thinking about the journey my husband and I are on.

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MamaBlogger365 - Life Lessons from "The Help" by Lowry Manders

Read it. See it. Doesn't matter the order -- you won't be disappointed. Kathryn Stockett's "The Help" is really such a captivating story, so beautifully-told, and with so many life lessons, including lessons for parents.

Before I get to those, here's a practical lesson from my experience:

* Lesson #1: Don't forget to take a tissue or two into the theatre! I should have known this, but of course, I was running late, having stood in line for my $20 bottle of re-bottled tap water. Based on the book, I expected the movie to be quite painful to watch, but it was actually quite enjoyable. The producers have obviously taken measures to "lighten up" the story a little, but the messages remain powerful, and you still need a tissue! (Of course, I need a tissue for the the movie trailer itself, too.)

I knew I was in trouble when the very first scene had me in tears... it is the one repeated several times in the book that I will always carry with me in my parent/teacher heart....

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MamaBlogger365 - Baby Steps (book review) by Amy Andrews

Diane Lang's Baby Steps: The Path from Motherhood to Career, on making the transition from stay-at-home mom to working mom, reviewed for Mamablogger365 for the Museum of Motherhood. Read more...

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