A book every mother should have . . .

My mom gave me an incredible early Mother's Day gift! If you already know the Eyres, than you need no convincing of the quality of this new book by Linda Eyre and her daughter Shawni. Please read the information below and consider purchasing this book for yourself or a mother in your life. I have already gained so much insight from the bits and pieces I have read. And the photographs are exquisite.



For Mother's Day this year, my daughter Shawni and I have a new reason to rejoice. We have just published a book together called A Mother's Book of Secrets, Keys to Making Motherhood Memorable, Meaningful and Magnificent. Since we are both passionate about motherhood, we felt that it would be fun for each of us to share 20 little bite-sized secrets that we've learned along the way with our collective 14 children and 50 years of experience. With one "seasoned" mother and one squarely "in the trenches", plus 50 beautiful, laugh-cry moments of motherhood captured in photographs with Shawni's professional lens, we hope that this book will provide moms with a way to see the great joys, pleasures and importance of Motherhood even as they slosh through every-day real life.

The book is published by Deseret Book: http://deseretbook.com/store/product/5014296 and is also available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon in stores and online. One of the hardest things for Shawni and me is "promoting" the book ! However, besides wanting to get this book to as many mothers as possible, we have another reason for promotion . . .

Shawni’s youngest daughter, two-year-old Lucy pictured on the cover of this book was recently diagnosed with a rare genetic syndrome called Bardet-Biedl. This means that, among other things Lucy will likely be legally blind sometime between her 9th and 15th year. This heartbreaking news has prompted us to donate a portion of the proceeds for this book to the Foundation Fighting Blindness, a National Organization for Rare Disorders, a wonderful organization doing research to discover ways to intervene.