Hands Free Mama

Ok, so I wanted to like this book more. And I still think it's worth reading. But definitely not all in one sitting. Each chapter tends to be very repetitive, with the same “moral to the story” just a slightly different anecdote. It's almost as if she took all her blog posts and pasted them together into a book. As a book in and of itself, it doesn't really measure up.

But, if you look at it as more of a devotional type of thing, and only read a chapter a month, I think you could get a lot more out of it. It would serve as a great reminder to put down the distractions and focus on the people in your life that matter. But reading it all at once is just too redundant.

Still, the message she wants to convey; that people (especially your kids) are more important than a heavy to-do list and all the electronic distractions we have nowadays, is worth considering.