Happy Mother’s Day

This is a Book Week post for Sunday’s theme of Mother’s Day.

This is the last day of Book Week. I hope you’ve all enjoyed it – do go and read over the rest of the week’s posts if you haven’t seen them yet. This evening, I’ll be putting up a round-up of the week and advance warning of the next Book Week, so you can get your thinking and writing caps on if you’d like to contribute.

Today will include a guest post about a popular mum blogger and her journey into eBook publishing, a guest post round-up of some parenting books as well as my own list of favourite parenting books. And there will be quite a few books to give away, too.

Mumlit

I was going to write a whole post about my favourite mumlit books because, for about nine months after Rosemary was born, I was unable to read anything but mumlit books – particularly ones with babies, but when I ran out of them (they weren’t as big as they are these days, yet), anything based around children would do. However, then realised that, in fact, only a couple of them really stuck out in my memory. It turns out I didn’t have a huge list of them to impart to you. So… the ones that stuck in my mind were The Baby Group by Rowan Coleman, The Rise and Fall of the Yummy Mummy by Polly Williams and The Bad Mother’s Handbook by Kate Long. The first two are fairly light and probably fall into the realms of chicklit, with babies. The latter is more ‘real’, or down-to-earth. I enjoyed all of them and I know I enjoyed quite a few more during that period, but I honesty can’t remember what most of them were called. So, if anyone else has any mumlit recommendations, please do leave them here. Perhaps some of them will even jog my memory!

Mother’s Day and time to yourself

What do you like to do on Mother’s Day? My favourite thing is to curl up in bed with a cup of tea and a book and have a few hours of Me Time – after getting cuddles from my girls, of course. Today, though, I’m celebrating Eleanor’s new-found ability (touch wood) to sleep through the night and enjoying being up and showered before everyone else and having some time to myself (to write and collate Book Week blog posts!). (I’m sure I will blog about our – well, mostly Chris’s – success in helping Eleanor to sleep through the night very soon.) I’m hoping, after this week, to start using this extra morning time to do some more regular writing. I have my Saturday writing time, but a daily dose will, I think, make all the difference in progressing the novel and making getting me to a point where I actually finish writing a whole book.

Enjoy your Mother’s Day.