NEW RELEASE
Not Ready for Mom Jeans - Maureen Lipinski (2010)
In this sequel to A Bump in the Road, Chicago event planner Clare is returning to work after the birth of daughter Sara. Even though she loves her job, she is worried about spending time away from her baby. Plus how on earth is she going to function without a proper night's sleep or without being able to fit back into her pre-pregnancy wardrobe? As Clare blogs her experiences and pulls together events, including a golfing day for an ex-boyfriend, she begins to wonder if she should instead be a stay-at-home mum. Written as diary entries, Lipinski's wry humour shines through again and many will relate well to Clare's dilemma. But the story jumps around a little too much to feel like a well-rounded novel - perhaps this chaotic style was intentional to represent Clare's new hectic life.
Maureen Lipinski follows up her very funny debut A Bump in the Road with Not Ready for Mom Jeans. It continues the story of event planner and blogger Clare Finnegan, after her daughter is born. The summary says: "(Clare) expected to go back to work after her daughter was born. After all, she worked hard for her success ... and it's not like now that she has a child, she has to buy a minivan, wear Mom Jeans, and give up her career, right? Despite more than a few pounds of baby weight still left to lose, Clare dons her Miss Piggy Pants and returns to work. She plans a swanky sweet 16 party and pulls off a million-dollar golf outing, has to come to terms with her mother's breast cancer, and is left so exhausted that she can't remember her ATM card's pin number. After another meeting runs late and she misses another one of her daughter's milestones, Clare allows herself to examine an alternate choice: staying home." It's out in May.