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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 Family

I swear I will get back to snarky, irrelevant drivel soon, I PROMISE, but a review I saw this morning on Amazon had me in happy tears. Seriously. This, this is why I write. It’s for all of us who haven’t been heard, and who haven’t been allowed to scream it on the hilltops.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Confessions of a Mother, April 7, 2009 By Hadiyo Jim’ale (USA)

Melinda Roberts may be young but she has got one hell of an experience. Although she goes through absolutely insane early years of motherhood including that horrible disorder a lot of us mothers suffer, Melinda (who calls herself “Mindy”) takes life in strides. She is a wonderful mother who struggles to keep her life in order for the sake of her children.

And when she writes late at night (as is the time most of us mothers find any time for ourselves), she taps into a great source of energy because she writes like a woman who has no worry in life! Her wit and positive outlook on life kept me glued to the pages of her book to the end.

Don’t get the wrong idea, Mindy is brutally honest about her life. She is honest about her career ambitions. She is honest about the ways her marriage was destroyed by the family economy. She is honest about her struggles with her feelings about herself as a mother. It is not a “Oh, poor me!” kind of a book. No, not at all.

I think what makes this book so important above everything else is that it validates our own experiences as mothers. It is very easy to relate to Mindy’s life, even if we have experienced life on different circumstances. Her genius is the generosity in which she writes as a mother. I spent half of it going “AMEN!” because her life mirrors that of so many of us in ways you don’t realize until you are reading these pages!