Alessandra is reading…

Learning that I can’t read as much in February and March 2025. And that’s okay.

Misery by Stephen King
Reading this provided me with a distracting horror from the throes of the difficult postpartum days.

A Heart So Full by Jenessa Wait
Affirmations and reassurances, the reading of which helped me in some ways that speaking to others could not. It’s great to have that village and this book had some way of expanding that veteran mom village for me.

I saw a video in the last month or so that babies who need more contact are gifted to moms who God needs to slow down. Or something along those lines. While religion is an entirely larger (but still connected) topic for me, that video really resonated with me. So here’s to living a little more slowly, enjoying motherhood, putting my family above everything else, and eventually finding a way to enjoying books again.