The Mommy School

Taking care of three little girls should be easy, right? Step into Janet Resnick's shoes and you'll think differently.It hasn't even been four days into her mother's two week vacation, and Janet is faced with disaster after disaster. Be it work related (like feeling as though she's not devoting enough time to her business), house related (like a gurgling, flooded dishwasher), or child related (like a certain two-year-old niece who seems to consume everything in sight).Could things get any worse? Oh yeah.Janet finds out her mother is in the hospital, and the two week vacation becomes six weeks. Janet is on a first name basis with the people at Poison Control already -- an indication of other horrors that might lie ahead.Her only alternative is The Mommy School. She calls, knowing she could get help, and be able to devote more time to running her temporary work agency. It would be a perfect plan, which is what Janet needs.But the school's only instructor is Gib Coulter, and he's far from the "nice, grandmotherly type" that Janet is expecting.Gib takes the Resnick case, with the plan that this will be The Mommy School's last client. He'd be able to get his youngest sister through college, and be able to carry out his perfect plan -- to travel and write articles about his journeys.But soon after Janet and Gib meet, they discover that no matter how hard they try, things don't always go according to plan.There's a reason why Valerie Taylor is one of Harlequin's "Rising Stars" -- she can make you laugh one minute, and quickly bring you to tears the next. A great accomplishment for any author. Her characterization is top notch as well. This reviewer would love to see books focusing on Carly, Heidi, and Emma when they're older. Kids this adorable can't be easily forgotten.

This one is pretty good. It isn't the BEST romance I ever read but it's probably one of the best I read this year. The hero is great and the heroine is nice but she sometimes does dumb things a little too often. It's funny even when she does so I guess that's a pretty good sign. The kids are the best. If you like kids in books (I don't usually but this writer did it a lot better than usual) you will probably really like this one.

This book is great! The hero is all-male, and even though he changes diapers (now -there's- a fantasy! ROFL!) he's still as clueless as always. He thinks he's whipping the heroine into shape as a mom, but in reality she's whipping him into shape (with the help of his sister, who is a hoot and has the best line in the book: Motherhood is not for wimps.)

This is such a good book! I laughed, I cried, I want more

Valerie Taylor has written a wonderful romance in THE MOMMY SCHOOL. Janet Resnick is Every Woman, trying to juggle career, children, and relationships and coming up short every time. Taylor has captured not only the difficulty of handling all these aspects of a woman's life, she's done it with warmth and wit. Her hero Gib is a good man with flaws not some impossible dream, and Janet's three little nieces are real children not perfect cherubs, story props, or comic relief. Taylor also develops the depth of Janet's and Gib's personalities through subplots about her mother and his sister, so that by the end of the novel, a community has been created. And on top of all this, she writes a great romance! This one's a keeper