Amazon – Life Love Laughter Linds

One day about a month ago I worried that I might run out of books to read. This convinced me that a trial of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited was in order. Now, keeping in mind that this is not my only source of reading material, I may have borrowed 4 titles total and one remains unread. It’s good in theory, but I think I need to pare down my to-be-read pile significantly before it’s something I will consider on a permanent basis.

One huge plus from this trial was the finding of Christy-award winning author Becky Wade’s series “The Bradford Sisters.” I’ve read books 1 (True to You – Nora) & 2 (Falling for You – Willow) and eagerly await Britt’s story. This series is delightful – it’s contemporary Christian romance, but it’s not cheesy or preachy. It’s all about real (fictional) characters in real (fictional) situations dealing with real emotions and struggles in life and faith – the kind of people you want to hang out with in real life, because they’re so, you know, real….

True to You | Bradford Sisters Romance |
Book 1 | Becky Wade

That being said, the sisters’ lives come across as remarkably pristine and fairy-tale-ish at first glance. They’re wealthy, they’re beautiful, they come from a well-respected family and every opportunity has been handed to them on a golden platter, or so it would seem. They’re enjoying more privilege than most of us will encounter in a lifetime. However, first impressions aren’t always accurate and as Wade digs deeper into their lives, you realise that they’ve encountered their share of struggle and heartache.

The stories are filled with some awesome supporting characters, fascinating adventure and mystery, snippets of humour, and the much-beloved romance. This trio of tales – although I’ve only read the first two, are fantastic and perfect for fans of Rachel Hauck or even Debbie Macomber or other inspirational authors who know their romance. I can’t wait for the third installment – Sweet On You – coming out April 30th. (Hint: It’s available for pre-order now!)

My name is Lindsey and I’m the mother of a reformed bedwetter. I hesitated to even post this online because the child who suffered with bedwetting is quite sensitive about it. It didn’t seem to matter how many times we tried to be reassuring or supportive. It didn’t matter how many times we told him he wasn’t the only one and that there’s a significant family history of bedwetting. Lately, it had become a BIG HUGE EMBARRASSING fact of life for the kid.

After endless purchases of pull ups and goodnites, conversations with the doctor, trying to wake at regular intervals, limiting drinks before bed, and (mistakenly) just winging it, we discovered a (highly expensive) product that saved the day (so worth it!)

If you have an older bedwetter (remember my kids are 7&9… and in the interest of protecting the privacy of the one who dealt with this, I’m not narrowing it down), give the Chummie Elite Bedwetting System a try. We purchased ours on Amazon.ca, albeit somewhat leerily.

We started using it layered (underwear, sensor, good nite, pajamas.) The first few nights were rough. Waking up multiple times, having to change the underwear and clean the sensor with each awakening. I’m not one for stripping a bed at 2 a.m. so that’s why we opted for the extra goodnite layer. I feel for mothers of newborns everywhere.

Fast forward a few nights and he was down to the alarm going off once a night and dealing with it himself – the bedwetting diminishing from a full soak to just a dribble and many mornings waking up dry. Another week went by and we waved adios to the goodnites.

Then the true test: would he wake up to pee during the night, wake up dry, or flood the bed again without any system (AKA cyborg gear) or backup protection. We made it a week without any incidents at all. We had a dribble incident one night after that initial week, but he woke himself up before it was a mess. We’ve made it another two weeks without any accidents or minimal wakeups. Success!

I’m raving about this product. Pricey, yes…. but so worth it for a solution that worked effectively and gave him so much confidence, never mind the cost savings of the goodnites. (A box of 44 cost approx. $24. We paid approx. $90 for our system. I figure that’s about 5.5 months of goodnites we would have paid for… and no extra bedtime expenses ever again! In July we can call it even.) I’m so happy to see him proud of himself and lose that embarrassment that seemed to hit him hard Every. Single. Bedtime. And. Every. Single. Morning.

I’m the mother of a reformed bedwetter… and I feel like I probably wouldn’t be saying that for years if we hadn’t given this system a try. Goodbye goodnites. We’re glad to see you go!