"unPlanned" book review

"unPlanned" by Abby Johnson with Cindy Lambert, CoPublished with Focus on the Family.

"unPlanned" sheds light on to Planned Parenthood's true agenda, while highlighting what a strong impression the peaceful and prayerful people can make. Abby Johnson walks you through her journey as she realizes that what has been her passion and her longing to help women, along with her own past abortions, is really doing more harm then she could have ever known. Abby Johnson shares her struggles trying to get out from the job she held as director of a Texas Planned Parenthood, and sharing how even though she had been uneasy for a time with the "business" side of Planned Parenthood Abby still felt as though she was doing all of these women a great service by keeping them from a back alley abortion. You share her pain as she comes to grips with how many lives she has helped to destroy, mostly her own two children that she had aborted while still in college. I found it very interesting as well that the other main people in this book are the founders of 40 Days For Life. So you feel as though you are getting two stories in one. But the biggest impression that this book left on me was how ruthless Planned Parenthood was, and I can only imagine still is. You will see Planned Parenthood as they truly are, told to you by someone who for many years was their biggest supporter. By someone who thought that Planned Parenthood was very much the biggest helper to all of womanhood. And you will watch as Planned Parenthood does every thing it can to hurt Abby Johnson. But with the grace God, and help from family and friends you see as Abby triumphs.

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Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

"A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms" a book review

"A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms (52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul)" by Lisa M. Hendey, published by Ave Maria Press.

"A Book of Saints" is the perfect devotional for Catholic moms. Lisa Hendey, the founder of CatholicMom.com, (a great website for Catholic moms) presents you with 52 saints each in a week long devotional set up. Each week starts of with the saints date of birth and death, patronage, and feast day. Then on to a short bio of the saint, most are 1 page long, then a short few paragraphs that highlight the lessons and wisdom to be learned from the saint for that week. Lisa Hendey then gives a weeks worth of scripture readings, with the verse book and numbers listed in case you want to look them up, but also with the verse printed in the book so no need to go hunt down your Bible, it's all ready there for you. Lisa Hendey also includes some saint inspired activities for mom and to do with the kids, which I thought was great! Each saint ends with a prayer to that saint for your family. Some of the saints chosen for the book are the more popular saints that you are sure to know, St. Joan of Arc, Mother Teresa, St. Therese of Lisieux. Others might be new to you St. Margaret Clitherow, Bl. Chiara "Luce" Badano and St. Theodore Guerin, I know I had never heard of a few of them before. I also liked the fact that in the back of the book is an index of the saints names, and index of the feast days in calendar order in case you want to do them in liturgical order. An index of patronages and and index dividing them into "heart", "mind" and "soul". This is a very user friendly devotional book of saints and is a must have for every Catholic mom's book shelf.

I wrote this review of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms for the free Catholic book review program, created by Aquinas and More Catholic Goods, your source for Baptism Gifts and First Communion Gifts.

Tiber River is the first Catholic book review site, started in 2000 to help you make informed decisions about Catholic book purchases.

**I receive free product samples as compensation for writing reviews for Tiber River.

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

"Smart Martha's" book review

"Smart Martha's Catholic Guide for Busy Moms" a book by Tammi Kiser, published by Our Sunday Visitor.

Over all this book was a easy read, with chapters like; Toys 'R' Taking Us Over, which gives you suggestions about keeping toys under control, through which toys are meaningful, and how to organize them, and From T-Ball To Trombone, a chapter on how to keep track of all the kids activities including samples of Tami Kiser's charts she uses in her own home. Tami shares time saving tips for every thing from how to organize your laundry room and get the laundry done and put away in a flash, with minimal ironing, to store your store loyalty cards so you can find them while your at the check out lane with out making the people behind you wait forever.

The thing I like best about "Smart Martha's" is that the tips range from chores to toys, and from toddler to teen. "Smart Martha's" has great tips for not just how to wrangle the littles, but how to keep your teens from abusing the internet, iPod's and keep them on track with school and tips to teach them to be responsible for themselves. All while they are still under your roof so that you are there to help guide them. I would recommend this book to any mom, whether they are looking for a organizational book or not. It is full of good hints and tips for all Catholic moms. Her techniques would work well if you have 1 toddler or 10 kids of multiple ages. She just throws out what has worked for her family, 9 kids and a husband. So go out and grab this book or rent it from your local library and see if you can be a Smart Martha!!

I wrote this review of Smart Marthas Catholic Guide for Busy Moms for the free Catholic book review program, created by Aquinas and More Catholic Goods, your source for Baptism Gifts and First Communion Gifts.

Tiber River is the first Catholic book review site, started in 2000 to help you make informed decisions about Catholic book purchases.

**I receive free product samples as compensation for writing reviews for Tiber River.


Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi