Title: Balancing Act

Author: Kimberly Stuart

Publisher: NavPress

ISBN: 1-60006-076-5

Genre: Inspirational/Momlit

Heidi Elliott just planned on taking time out from teaching to have a baby. Norah, her really wonderful baby daughter is the light of her life, but Heidi always intended to go back to work. After all, she’s smart, modern, hip. Balancing a baby, a home and a career should be a snap. Right?

Then a former boyfriend moves back to town, settling in the same neighborhood, and old feelings began to surface. Her husband is working with a gorgeous female, and while Heidi isn’t jealous…she’s above all that, of course, but still. . .  . And that balancing act she was so confident she could manage? It begins to topple.  Heidi doesn’t go to group activities, but somehow she gets roped into the church’s Wednesday night Mom’s Group. The women here are a diverse lot. They couldn’t possibly have anything to offer her, or could they?

Any woman who has tried to balance home, family and work will identify with Balancing Act. It’s all here, the frustrations, the disappointments, the joys, and the everlasting feelings of guilt that you’re not doing enough, not being enough, not accomplishing enough. It’s clear that Kimberly Stuart has walked the walk. She knows too much about this subject not to have lived it.  Balancing Act is funny, fast paced, with realistic, believable characters, and a strong faith message.