Several months ago, I blogged about my sister Mary and I writing a book for mothers of children from birth to age five. Though it took more than a decade to finish our project, God graciously allowed us the time we needed—despite Mary’s terminal cancer.
Our planning and writing was a stop-start process that included endless interruptions but also the happiness of working together in the year before she went to heaven. And now, at last, the end-product is about to launch. It’s titled Thrive and Survive, Zero to Five, with subtitle, “2 sisters, 14 children and what we wish we’d known from the beginning.”
Mary was the one who brought structure to our ideas by outlining the book and creating the Table of Contents. She also wrote 58 sidebars that are sprinkled throughout—bullet-point extras not covered in the text.
The next series of blog posts on this site will offer sneak peeks into the content of Thrive and Survive, keyed to Mary’s sidebars. Then, come the end of August, the book should be available through Amazon and other sources.
Arriving at this point is deeply satisfying—and I hope Mary knows all about it. Her wisdom is laced through the book, and both of us share mothering fails as well as successes. Our hope has always been that new moms won’t have to make the mistakes we did, and our prayer is that they will truly thrive in their efforts to do the most important job on the planet.
“May she who gave you birth be happy.” (Proverbs 23:25 NLT)
I need to get a copy!!! Now with my second son born it will be great to know a few things I might been missing out on for the first.
Hooray that Mary’s and your book, written in love, will be published. Persistence pays off! I look forward to reading it.
Congratulations on finishing and being published. I am sure that Mary is smiling down on you with a very happy heart 🙂
Congratulations. I know Mary is smiling in heaven Miss her so!
KB
I remember Mary telling me about the experience of writing this book with you, Margaret. It’s exciting to see that your hard work has paid off!
I will be excited to get and read my copy of this book.
No matter my age, I can always learn new ideas, for all the Great Grands that keep arriving I in our family! Margaret, I REALLY miss you and Mary! Love from Marge.
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Whoop, whoop! I am excited to get a copy!
XO,
Terry
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