EXCITING BOOK REVIEW ON MY BOOK LOVE MOMMY!!!!

A beautiful review was just written on Momscape by Susie Cortwright about my book and I just wanted to share it with all of you love mommy writers out there. It touched me deeply and I felt so excited that people are getting it and responding to it. Because my goal is undoubtedly to inspire, uplift and help people do this thing that I know ultimately will bring them much joy and fulfillment. So thank you to Susie Cortright from Momscape and to all the other moms who are enjoying the book and more importantly, beginning to write love letters to your babies and children.
Love and laughter always,
Judy
"Love Mommy"

Click on website to read more about the book and you can order your copy today at Amazon Books or check your local bookstore for LOVE MOMMY: WRITING LOVE LETTERS TO YOUR BABY

http://www.alovelettertomybabies.com/

Okay here's my "Lucille Ball Aha" moment about blogging!

I just figured something out and it just hit me over the head like a ton of bricks. You know the way you used to just order a coffee, and then you'd go over and get yourself a stir stick and maybe some sugar, and away you'd go? Well, now this whole Starbucks coffee thing has just snowballed, and it's amazing how we order our coffees now. Now we ask for a tall non fat, half the shot, decaf, one Sweet and Low latte, and the Starbucks employee doesn't even blink an eye. And it makes you wonder how did this ever happen? When Starbucks first opened there were two types of coffee you could order, and now we've created a multitude of coffee orders that boggle the mind and it was created by us, the public. So I started thinking about blogs, and how it has spun into an entirely different universe, and was really created by us. And these mommy blogs are a whole universe onto themselves. I wrote a book called Love Mommy: Writing Love Letters To Your Baby, and still maintain that writing with pen to paper in the form of a book whose pages can become dog-eared, has its advantages. And I am wondering, do all the mommy bloggers save their posts, and the posts of others to have a chronicled version of their mommydom? Or it is just mainly a release, a catharsis, a way to regain part of who you are when you are not being a mom? How did blogging become so huge and where is it all going? Write to me. I'd love to hear more about how you think this phenomenen has happened.

Why write love letters to your children?

Many people have asked me why I went to such lengths to write my book Love Mommy: Writing Love Letters To Your Baby, (published by ECW PRESS in MAY 2007), and I guess I felt compelled to do it because I felt overwhelmed with love, And as I say, if I were a dancer, I would have created some choreograhphy to describe the kaleidoscope of emotions I was feeling. But I am a writer, so writing it down seemed to be the most natural thing to do. Over time, I worked on the book for eight and a half years, the writings started to take the shape of these love letters. I remember someone saying to me, You don't write love letters to a child. That's something you do when you're "in love", in a romantic relationship as it were. I totally disagreed. Because I don't know about you, but this is the most holy love of all, it is such an unconditional kind of love, but it is one of the most powerful loves there are.
How would you describe the love you feel for your child? I'd love to hear from you. Please write to me.

Love,
Mommy

Don't Worry-Be Happy!

I remember my husband telling me not to worry about everything and he asked me to put away my copy of What To Expect When You're Expecting and all of the other first time mother guides. so that I would just relax. Now granted, he is a fertility specialist and he knows a lot, so I trusted him and just relaxed. It's a great way to go, and as long as you know all the things you have to do to have a healthy baby and to be a healthy mommy, do you really want to know all of the things that can go wrong? My husband also has always told me that 99 percent of what we worry about never happens, so why worry at all? Were you a real worrier in your first pregnancy? Were you just always relaxed about it all? Love to hear your thoughts on this and on anything to do with motherhood.
Love,
Mommy

EVERY MOMENT IS ANOTHER LETTING GO AND HOW TO MAKE THAT OKAY FOR YOU AND YOUR KIDS

Have you ever noticed that moment when you have to turn the stroller out towards the world and then you don't get to gaze at your baby, because they are now looking out at the world, which he or she needs to do to in order to grow? And then there's that first separation when they have their first drop-off at their daycare or at school. Each time it is difficult and each time we somehow get through it. So what happens when they go off to camp or school or college for the first time? In one case, I said to a mother, "well, at least your son is going away to camp with a friend and he can hold on to that." And then my friend said, "But that's not how I want to look at it. I want him to be okay inside, on his own, and not rely on his friend, but rely on himself."

So how do we teach our children that ability to be okay on their own? Our inclination is to fix every thing that gets broken and make everything okay for them. But as the beautiful book, "The Blessing of A Skinned Knee" teaches us, we have to let them fall sometimes, because that's the only way they learn how to get up again. I'd love to hear from you. What lessons or tips do you have for how to make your child feel totally okay on their own, so that they enter a room what that feeling of assurance and confidence wherever they go? I'd love to hear your comments.
Love,
Mommy

Celebrities and Cutting Your Baby's Hair for the first time

I have to admit I felt for Celine Dion when I saw the cover of the magazine with a picture of her son with his mane of long golden hair, that she has decided to keep long.
Given the opportunity, I would have loved for my son to keep his hair long, only my husband was not giving in. When my son turned one, my husband said, "enough is enough." It's time for a haircut and he said he was going to send him to his own barber if I didn't get cracking and that's when I quickly pulled it together and took him to my favourite salon for his first haircut. I'll never forget it. Being the angel he's always been, he fell asleep in his stroller as were entering the Anna K. Salon. Antonella propped him up in her chair and as she wrapped hin a black plastic cape, he looked so endearing because his golden head seemed so small and lost in the hugeness of the cape around him. As she took out her spray pump of water and wet his entire head, and then her scissors and comb out of their little pouch, she started to cut. She moved his head to the right, then to the left and back again and he never cried or made any sound at all. No one could believe it. His head was jostled from side to side and he didn't wake up during the entire ordeal. I put all the golden curls in an envelope, and we got into the car. As always, I checked my rear view mirror to catch a glimpse of him. Only, my little baby wasn't in the car seat anymore. In his place was a beautiful little boy.
Love,
Mommy

What are your memories of your son or daughter's first haircut. What do you think about Celine Dion's son with his mane of long hair?

Welcome to Love Mommy!

Hi everyone,
I am so glad that you stopped by. I am so excited to have this Love Mommy Blog in conjuction with my new book, Love Mommy: Writing Love Letters to your Baby, which was just released this past month, published by ECW PRESS and is available in bookstores all across Canada and the United States.
This blog will have celebrity news, some coaching tips, (I am also a Life Coach) great ideas for Magical, Marvelous, meaningful, merry and mellow mommy minutes, and anything and everything to do with the joy of motherhood. I look forward to sharing the best thing in all of our lives and doing it with humour, grace, love and support.
I look forward to hearing from you and will provide the latest, greatest tips, news, advice, and fun-on everything to do with being a mom.
Love Mommy