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Looking for some inspiration? Judy Siblin-Librach, mom of two, journalist and life coach has recently written Love Mommy: Writing Love Letters to Your Baby (ECW Press). Inspired by her own emotions of joy and passion upon becoming a mom, and wanting her children to know how she felt one day when they were old enough to understand, she starting writing letters to them and eventually created a collection of stories for each of them. Her wonderful instructional guide includes sample letters and writing tips (our favourites: don’t procrastinate and don’t forget the little things) and ideas for topics to get you started.
Review by Susie Cortright, Momscape.com
My kids never tire of hearing the same stories: "Tell me what I said when I first met my baby brother," my daughter pleads. She has heard the same story – the same way - countless times, and she luxuriates in the knowledge that I love to tell the story as much as she loves to hear it. All moms know how their kids' eyes light up when they hear stories about themselves.
All moms also know that when a mother takes the time to record these precious stories in written form, she preserves a mystery and a magic that is impossible to recapture any other way. Still, even the most well-intentioned of us (myself included) have a hard time following through when we have something we wish to write down, particularly those everyday details that make up our lives. Sometimes we are swept away by the daily tasks of motherhood and sometimes we are simply too deep in the enjoyment of the experience itself to take the time out to write about it just then. Sometimes it all seems too much to do, but more often it is a gentle ebbing away of the time.
In Love, Mommy: Writing Love Letters to Your Baby, Judy Siblin-Librach leads us on a journey that helps us capture the major milestones (the birth story, the first day at school) as well as those that may not immediately come to mind (the first time your child caught a baseball, the way her hugs felt, the first time she went through a car wash).
Siblin-Librach's writing style is elegant, perfectly capturing the depth of emotion that all of us mothers feel at one point or another. We are in good hands with a natural-born poet and mother who will lead us into creating and recording the lyrics of our own lives.
Part of the beauty of this book is the way Siblin-Librach makes it simple to write these life stories, whether or not you have ever enjoyed the process of writing in the past. The book is equally helpful in bringing back memories you may have thought were gone, just in case your baby has grown.
Siblin-Librach opens each chapter with incisive questions to prompt your writing, followed by sample letters from her own family. These examples can really help you to get an idea of all the different ways you can take a particular letter.
The author includes notes to parents about how to write the letter, as well as tips and ideas to keep you inspired in this grand task. The book helps us to record the specific stories and memories, as well as the deeper story: the wisdom, the life lessons and the wishes you have for your child.
Judy Siblin-Librach has written a beautiful and heartfelt book that reminds us it needn't be a big deal to record these memories and to give ourselves and our children the greatest gift. In doing so, she has given a gift to all mothers and all those who will be mothers.
Journalist and life coach Siblin-Librach (The Toronto Wedding Handbook) presents this guidebook, suitable for anyone with a new baby in their life (but especially mom), to crafting heartfelt love letters to infants designed to preserve and give back “a piece of their memory they otherwise wouldn’t have access to.” With patience, much encouragement and numerous examples from her own letter collection, Siblin-Librach leads non-writers through the letter-writing process, providing “Magic Keys” to use as jumping-off points, suggestions for topics common to the child-rearing experience (shopping for maternity clothes, baby’s first bath, the bedtime routine) and tips on technique (starting small, using humor, making regular appointments to write). Though reading it straight through may prove terminally repetitive, this slim volume makes a fine resource for parents looking to make a very personal record of their child’s early years.
Canadian Jewish News
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Love, Mommy
Writing Love Letters
to Your Baby
Judy Siblin-Librach
ISBN-13: 978-1-55022-758-1
ISBN-10: 1-55022-758-0
5 x 8”, 120pp, cloth
$14.95 CDN, $12.95 U.S.
April 2007
Parenting/Gift
That first smile. Those first steps. Their faces as they flew through the air
on a swing for the first time. For most parents, these moments are priceless,
moments that are gone as quickly as they happened. Parents have
the best of intentions when they begin writing down everything their children
do, but that early zeal is soon replaced by the hectic nature of life,
and they give up, often feeling guilty that they didn’t do more. But it’s
never too late to go back and recollect these amazing moments; after all,
even your foggiest memories are clearer than your child’s, who doesn’t
have the ability to remember events that happened in his or her first four
or five years.
Most children are forever asking their parents, “What was I like when I
came home from the hospital? What was my first word?” Love, Mommy:
Writing Love Letters to Your Baby is a book that finally helps parents
recreate their child’s memories for them. Author Judy Siblin-Librach, a
mother of two, journalist, and talk show host, explains how to recall those
moments and give them back to your children as a precious gift of memory.
She encourages mothers, fathers, grandparents, and other relatives and
friends to join in and try to rebuild those early years for your children.
Imagine the look on your child’s face when you hand them a series of
memories of their childhood, as remembered by you. As a gift for a birthday,
graduation, or their wedding, it would be absolutely priceless to them.
And maybe you’ll see that same look they had as they smiled for the very
first time.
 JUDY SIBLIN-LIBRACH lives in Toronto with her husband and their two children.
She is the author of The Toronto Wedding Handbook, and has
appeared regularly on The Dini Petty Show, Canada AM, the Life Network, Real Life with Erica Ehm, and TVOntario.
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