Mom Always Said is for mothers and about mothers. Part literary reader, part handbook, and part scrapbook, it includes more than fifty stories, poems, recipes, and personal accounts of mothers and motherhood.Contributors such as Susan Cheever, Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Leavy, and Anna Quindlen recount, often hilariously, their won experiences as mothers,. While writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, George Eliot, Mary Macky, Frank OConnor, and Joyce Carol Oats lovingly recall their own mothers.
Running throughout the book are scrapbook pages where you can inscribe your own thoughts and memories of motherhood.The Mothers Helper section offers a selection of beloved fairy tales, lullabies, and childrens songs for you to share with your own little ones. Completing the collection is a sampling of Recipes for Moms & Tots, together with pages for you to record some of your own favorite recipes.Whether youre a new mother of a mom many times over, Mom Always Said is sure to be enjoyed by you and your children and perhaps reveal a glimpse of the wonder and joy that is motherhood.