Completed on 4/25/2016
Review Rating: 5 stars!
The Mommy-Go-Round by Eleanor D. Alspaugh opens with
her bumpy road to conception and goes on to record the traumatic birth of her
first baby, she and her husband taking their daughter home, and Holly’s early
years. The tragedy of miscarriage, and the doubts tests suggested for a second
developing new life caused an unplanned gap in the couple’s family and Julianne
was born when Holly was four years old. A son, Nathan, pre-natal tests
jettisoned with the doubts, completed the threesome. The Mommy-Go-Round follows
Mrs Alspaugh’s joys and trials of being a mother until, unexpectedly, she finds
herself preparing to be a grandmother. Throughout this beautifully illustrated
book, she tells readers all the things nobody else will about the tumultuous
journey of life when a woman, particularly if she is a Christian with high
expectations of herself, embarks on motherhood.
Half-close your eyes and The Mommy-Go-Round reads as The Merry-Go-Round and I suspect that this is Eleanor D. Alspaugh’s intention. Full of facts, the reassurance that any reader who is a mother is not alone, and amazingly revealing honesty, this book can best be described as a carousel. If I needed a title for an Amazon reader’s review, it would be “Mommy’s Crazy Carousel, grab your copy NOW.” I laughed, I cried, and recognized familiar feelings of inadequacy. My favorite quote is in the title of chapter two, when Holly’s birth is imminent. “BTW, does this come with ANY instructions?” The Mommy-Go-Round is written in a style that lets you hear Mrs Alspaugh’s voice as if you were a friend drinking coffee at her kitchen table, assuming there is even time for a Mommy TO sit!
Half-close your eyes and The Mommy-Go-Round reads as The Merry-Go-Round and I suspect that this is Eleanor D. Alspaugh’s intention. Full of facts, the reassurance that any reader who is a mother is not alone, and amazingly revealing honesty, this book can best be described as a carousel. If I needed a title for an Amazon reader’s review, it would be “Mommy’s Crazy Carousel, grab your copy NOW.” I laughed, I cried, and recognized familiar feelings of inadequacy. My favorite quote is in the title of chapter two, when Holly’s birth is imminent. “BTW, does this come with ANY instructions?” The Mommy-Go-Round is written in a style that lets you hear Mrs Alspaugh’s voice as if you were a friend drinking coffee at her kitchen table, assuming there is even time for a Mommy TO sit!
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