Dancing with my Daughter: Poems of Love, Wisdom & Dreams is a lovely gift book published by Loyola Press. In this book, Jayne Jaudon Ferrer, divides each chapter into a different dance and shares poems about the exhaustion, joy and fear of raising daughters.
I’m not normally a person who enjoys these types of books, but I was pleasantly surprised. I have a 19-month old and I identified with the baby-age poems and I recognized myself as a teen/tween in the others 
. It gave me new respect for mothering girls and the work my mother did to raise me.
One of my favorite excerpts was from the poem Loaded Question:
…but, after all, I’m just a mom, right?
Chopped liver in pantyhose…
transportation with an attitude…
a wallet with a uterus…
MOM!
She is funny and lovely and sentimental and REAL. I think this is a little gem of a book and I recommend it as a gift to anyone who has a daughter of any age!
This book was provided for review by the folk at Loyola Press.
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