Create a heartfelt keepsake with this guided journal all about mom All moms deserve to know how amazing and appreciated they are. A Love Journal: 100 Things I Love About Mom makes it easy to show your affection and gratitude, with a variety of prompts to help you recount important milestones, funny moments, and all the things that make your relationship with your mom unique. Ideal for Mother's Day and birthdays, this journal offers: 100 prompts—With fill-in-the-blanks, top 3 lists, and more, this guided journal offers a range of prompts that encourage you to celebrate all facets of your mom, from the playful to the profound. Extra love—Enjoy five additional pages that offer open-ended space for longer reflections, heartfelt notes, pictures, and mementos. A heartfelt present—Create a meaningful gift for mom that will bring a smile to her face every time she opens it. Give the gift of love with this unique and personalized present that your mother will treasure forever.
Create the perfect expression of love in a short, sweet gift journal The best gifts express the depth of your love in a single gesture. Give a perfect token of your affection with 100 Things I Love About You, an effortless way to say "here's what I love about you." This romantic journal makes it easy to write down heartfelt sentiments, playful details, and fond memories in one place for your partner to read and treasure. Short, evocative prompts help you express your feelings, and bonus pages let you sprinkle in even more personal touches. Celebrate the foundations of your bond and reflect on moments big and small. Whimsical illustrations and a colorful, engaging design make this gift journal a delight to fill out--and so much fun to read! In 100 Things I Love About You, you'll find: 100 Inspiring prompts--Customize your gift journal for your significant other with fun fill-in-the-blanks, top-five lists, and favorite memories. "What I love about you is..."--This heartwarming journal may be petite, but it contains plenty of room for your love. Plus a little extra--Use the "Extra Love" pages to get creative: doodle, write notes, share inside jokes, or post scrapbook-style mementos. Show your one and only exactly "what I love about you" with this heartwarming gift journal.
You might learn a few useful things at school, but most of what matters, most of what makes you into a fully functioning human being, no teacher will ever tell you. This diamond-sharp, honest book of hard-earned wisdom is one mother's effort to equip her daughter for survival in the real world. Heartbreakingly funny, Navigating Life has invaluable tips for students of life of all ages. It will challenge you to lead a more meaningful life and to tackle the bumps along the way with grit, style, and ingenuity.
This book features beautiful scenes of mothers and babies from all across the animal kingdom. From fluffy farmyard creatures to jungle animals, children will love meeting new mother and baby pairs on every page. Children will love listing all the things that mums do for them, and why they love them so much.
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
“There are moments when a story shakes you...Barely Missing Everything is one of those stories, and Mendez, a gifted storyteller with a distinct voice, is sure to bring a quake to the literary landscape.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Peña, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you—your life, brown lives—don’t matter. Juan has plans. He’s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself—or at least find something better than his mom Fabi’s cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen. His best friend JD has plans, too. He’s going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quentin Tarantino or Guillermo del Toro (NOT Steven Spielberg). He’s got a camera and he’s got passion—what else could he need? Fabi doesn’t have a plan anymore. When you get pregnant at sixteen and have been stuck bartending to make ends meet for the past seventeen years, you realize plans don’t always pan out, and that there are some things you just can’t plan for… Like Juan’s run-in with the police, like a sprained ankle, and a tanking math grade that will likely ruin his chance at a scholarship. Like JD causing the implosion of his family. Like letters from a man named Mando on death row. Like finding out this man could be the father your mother said was dead. Soon Juan and JD are embarking on a Thelma and Louise—like road trip to visit Mando. Juan will finally meet his dad, JD has a perfect subject for his documentary, and Fabi is desperate to stop them. But, as we already know, there are some things you just can’t plan for…
In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists. Whether a gift was meant to keep a daughter warm, put a roof over her head, instruct her in the ways of womanhood, encourage her talents, or just remind her of a mother’s love, each story gets to the heart of a relationship. Rita Dove remembers the box of nail polish that inspired her to paint her nails in the wild stripes and polka dots she wears to this day. Lisa See writes about the gift of writing from her mother, Carolyn See. Cecilia Muñoz remembers both the wok her mother gave her and a lifetime of home-cooked family meals. Judith Hillman Paterson revisits the year of sobriety her mother bequeathed to her when Paterson was nine, the year before her mother died of alcoholism. Abigail Pogrebin writes about her middle-aged bat mitzvah, for which her mother provided flowers after a lifetime of guilt for skipping her daughter’s religious education. Margo Jefferson writes about her mother’s gold dress from the posh department store where they could finally shop as black women. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; joy and grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, ?no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond. As Elizabeth Benedict points out in her introduction, “whether we are mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, or cherished friends, we may not know for quite some time which presents will matter the most."
There are oh so many things a mom loves about her young child. But most of all, she just loves him, no matter what. Bestselling author and illustrator LeUyen Pham combines her experience as a mother and her proven storytelling skills in a humorous and heartfelt love letter of a book. In All the Things I Love About You, Mama lists the reasons she loves her little boy: the way his hair sticks up in the morning, the way he says "Mama" (even in the middle of the night), and the way he laughs. Simply written and beautifully illustrated, All the Things I Love About You honestly speaks to the unconditional love between a mother and her child. Children and parents alike will treasure this heartwarming book and, in reading it together, appreciate the small actions that make love grow stronger every day.
Create a heartfelt keepsake with this guided journal all about grandma Awesome grandmothers deserve to know how amazing and appreciated they are. A Love Journal: 100 Things I Love About Grandma makes it easy to show your affection and gratitude, with a variety of prompts to help you recount important milestones, funny moments, and all the things that make your relationship with your grandmother unique. A perfect pick for Mother's Day and birthdays, this journal offers: 100 prompts—From fill-in-the-blanks to top 3 lists, these thoughtful prompts encourage you to celebrate all aspects of your grandma, giving equal weight to the silly and sentimental. Extra love—Enjoy five additional pages that offer open-ended space for longer reflections, heartfelt notes, pictures, and mementos. A cherished gift—Create a touching present for grandma that's guaranteed to leave her smiling every time she opens it. Give the gift of love with this unique and personalized present that your grandmother will treasure forever.