I wanted to like this book but it just didn't connect with me. It's nothing new, and the author kind of grated on me with her disorganization. I just wanted to tell her how to change things.

I am in the very same life stage as Alexandra— a few elementary kids, one still at home with me. The barrage of activities and mounds of laundry and the stomachs that are never full can be overwhelming. Sometimes I feel like I frantically move from one task to the next without actually living. And that’s what this book is about. Alex is casual in her tone, as she takes one aspect of her life each month and focuses on being intentional... Loving the actual life she’s been given, instead of longing for something unattainable. Perhaps my favorite part of this book is that she’s honest and real. She doesn’t paint a perfect, rosy picture of her life. She shares the hard and scary, she brings a beauty to the mundane that is beautiful. It turns out, we don’t have to strive to be bigger and better and more. We don’t have to wait a few years until things calm down. We can love our actual lives, right here and right now. There is always something to be thankful for, if we have the courage to stop and see. Couldn’t recommend this book more. (It would be an excellent beginner Bible study or book club book)