Loving the Little Years by Rachel Jankovic

Loving the Little Years, Motherhood in the Trenches

by Rachel Jankovic

I love the cover pic and design on this book. I don't know if you can tell or not from this blog but that is a spaghetti noodle in the corner and spaghetti sauce splatters that follow onto the back side of the book to a messy spaghetti plate mess and fork. Soooo normal. And then the first thing you read on the back is this

I didn't write this book because mothering is easy for  me.
I wrote it because it isn't.

Rachel Jankovic, mother of 5 under the age of 5, is the author. And she's real.

This book is twenty little chapters and you can read each one before the next mess happens or as a reward for folding one more load of laundry. It's small and fits easy into one hand while you nurse the baby. Let me just say this--you need this little book of encouragement.

It is full of real life everyday stories with encouraging biblical wisdom on how we moms are being sanctified in our homes with our families. It can be read and reread and still find nuggets of truth.

Sin is just a fact of life, it is the way we deal with it that changes ours.

Or

One of the great things about having children is that you constantly convict yourself by teaching them.

 Multiple nuggets on each page.
I laughed. I was convicted. I could relate to her stories of motherhood. I was inspired. I laughed some more. It's good to laugh at ourselves.
And then I laughed some more.
I was convicted again and vowed to make some changes around here! I remembered things I did with my older children that my little children know nothing of.

Her stories are so typical to what happens to all moms.  Children grumbling in the back seat of the car. Children mimicing the words they hear. Diaper blowouts. Picking up toys. Losing shoes. Settling squables. And our attitudes, our thoughtlife, our reactions. Grace.

Their are things in this book that I needed to hear many many years ago. If you are the parent of of little children, get this book. Don't learn things the hard way.
I think an ol' mom like me needs to reread some of these chapters.
And did I mention this book is funny. I laughed so much once that I was crying. Probably because I could sooooo relate.

Canon Press is the publisher and you can also get it from Vision Forum and on Amazon.