You and I – A journey in Motherhood Victorian Journal/ Diary – new mother’s gift

High Quality. Professionally printed hard cover Memory book/ Journal. In celebration of Mothers Journey through Motherhood.
Contains 80 high resolution full color illustration depicting mothers and their children from Edwardian and Victorian ladies publication. The first engravings date from 1809 the last from 1890. With each page the fashion engravings move us a year ahead in time showing us nearly 100 years of Motherhood in all its glorious stages – from new baby to sending your daughter away in marriage. Mothers and grandmothers doing all the usual things we do with our children today – going to the parks, vacations, celebrations, movies, sickness and happiness. There are pages depicting moms with daughters and sons.
There are plenty of blank pages to record your special memories.

CAN BE ORDERED FROM ALL MAJOR BOOKSTORES AS WELL THROUGH THEIR SPECIAL ORDER DESKS. REFER TO ISBN 9781775065418.

Most of us own journals, a lot of them! The majority of them remain empty and forgotten. Some have a few pages full, but that is about it. Our days seem so mundane and unremarkable that after a short while we are pretty sure that no one would ever be interested in what we did and how we did it. Yet sometimes we read a forgotten page and gasp, and laugh … Suddenly we remember the times when we believed that being a super mom and a super professional is very easy to achieve.

I do not want to offer you another journal to be forgotten in a dusty cupboard. I want you to write your story as a mother and a parent. Your happiness and sadness, frustrations and triumphs can be a source of strength for those that come behind, regardless how talented of a writer you are.

My own mother is battling advanced cancer at the moment and I have to face the possibility of a life without her. She never spoke much or told us a story. She seemed happy to stay in silence and care for us without any consideration for her own comfort at any point.

I wish she had written her story… Sometimes its easier to write than to say things. I know that she was an orphan.” I hate my memories, there was nothing but struggle there…” she would say when I pressed her sometimes to tell me about herself. Now when my own children are almost grown up I would have loved to know how it was to be a parent when you do not know what parent is yourself. I would have loved to know how she coped with losing a child, with loneliness and sickness.

We do not have to leave our children orphans after we are gone, because at any stage in our lives we need our parents. We need the perspective, the solution and the connection with those who have done it before us.

Fill the empty book and pass it on.

Contains 80 full colour, high resolution images of fashion engravings originally published between year 1800 and 1900. Each image depicts mothers with their children, doing all the happy things we do with our children today – going to the park, zoo, movies, playing with friends and pets, taking part of  family parties and Christmas celebrations.
Each full colour image is followed by a lined page for notes, with faded colour image of the same fashion plate on the background. The fist images in the journal show fashion styles and scenes from the early 1800’s, and with each page we move ahead in time with the last page depicting styles from 1898.
A romantic, old fashioned way to record your favourite memories of your children growing up. Showcases motherhood in all its glorious stages – from new mom’s smitten with their babies to sending your daughter off to marriage, from young women to grandmothers with their grandchildren. 

DETAILS:
-hard cover case laminate;
-80 full colour high resolution Edwardian and Victorian engraving;
-at least 80 blank pages;
-the over all tone of the pages is off white to beige, because I have tried to preserve the antique engraving in a state as close as possible to the original

Please contact me with any questions!
Customization are also possible.