Fabulous Recipe

One fabulous, delicious recipe: four authors, add an Amish genre, one snow storm, and mix in four babies. Put in Christmas tin. Bake for 25 years. Garnish with mystery, intrigue and love. This recipe is accomplished in Amish Christmas at North Star by authors Amanda Flower, Katie Ganshert, Mindy Starns Clark and Cindy Woodsmall. So if you like these authors as stand alones, then you will want to read this book with the combined talent of each of them in their own novellas. The four authors focus on one of the four babies born in 1990 during a snow storm in North Star and where life has taken them in the 25 years since then. I found each story captivating, making one believe in the magic of Christmas and love. I received this book for free to review for Blogging for Books.

Dethroning Super Mom

Becky Kipitzke takes on the challenge of dethroning "Super Mom" in her book The Super Mom Myth: Conquering the dirty villains of motherhood. Moms in todays culture find themselves doing the comparison game- trying to live up to the Norman Rockwell picture perfect family. Kipitzke takes the reader on a journey, describing eight villians of motherhood and how to overcome them: housework, comparison, fear, anger, busyness, neglecting ourselves, neglecting our husbands, and exhaustion. The beginning of each chapter lists the villian, the related evil power of the said villian, and the "kryptonite" or Bible verses that empowers or shows us the real truth. She does all of this in an easy, conversational, and humorous read. My only wish was that this book had made its appearance several years ago when my children were much younger as I saw myself having fallen victim to many of these villians back in the day! I received this book for free to review from Barbour Publishing's Review Crew.