You know the song, "It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want to"? Well, this is my "It's My Birthday and I'll Giveaway the Books I Want to" event!
I've picked some books that I've been wanting to read and am giving them away.
RULES FOR ENTERING:
a. Post a comment to this blog post. Answer the silly question.
Today's silly question: What is your favorite kind of birthday cake? I like a really chocolatey cake. It has to be seriously chocolatey...not just brown cake that's supposed to be chocolate. With chocolate chunks in it!
b. Enter on or before March 3. Winners will be drawn on March 4. Claim your prize, if you win, within 10 days of being notified or I will redraw. (In other words, let me know you want the book and where it should be sent, should you find out your name was drawn.
c. Check back for the next giveaway!
Today's book is Age Before Beauty by Virginia Smith (kind of appropriate for a birthday book, right?)
Description from the book:
(This is book 2 in the "Sister-to-Sister" series, but can be read independently too.) Desperate to stay home with her baby, Allie Harrod launches a new career. Sure, she dropped out of Girl Scouts because she was lousy at cookie sales, but makeup is different, right? She'll do anything to make enough money to cover her share of the household bills, but how can she focus on her business when her list of problems is growing? None of her pre-baby clothes fit, her checking account is dwindling, and her mother-in-law has decided to move in! To top it off, her husband's attractive coworker suddenly needs his help every weekend. Middle sister Joan insists that God has the answers to all her problems, but Allie isn't so sure. Can she really trust him?
My Thoughts:
I enjoyed this book very much. I can totally relate to Allie's attempts to find a way to stay home with her baby and still earn an income. She struggles with a sense of identity now that her baby is here and she wants to be in two places at once--home with her baby and at a job. It's tough to figure that balance out for all of us and it's different for all of us. The struggle comes for Allie when she gets her identity caught up in it and loses trust in her husband. Add a live-in mother-in-law who is nagging Allie about her weight and you've got a recipe for disaster.
I've been a mom for almost 10 years now, and I still haven't figured out this balance of mom vs. whoever else I am yet. I'm almost jealous of Allie for getting to the point where she could figure it out so quickly. A wonderful reminder for all of us about the importance of getting our identity from God and not from our jobs or motherhood.
