Happy Mothers Day from Cuddledry!

My daughter was so excited about giving me her home made card and selection of gifts this morning – (pieces of her own jewellery and make-up presented in a box) – that she was in my bedroom by 6.30am. So much for a lie-in! What’s ironic is that on school days I have to drag her out of bed at 8.15am, with barely time for a piece of toast in the car on the way to school. Isn’t that always the way?

So for all you mummies out there doing a fantastic job, we have an extra special gift this Mothers Day – ten copies of new Uma Thurman film ‘Motherhood’ to give away on DVD. The film is a day in a life of a New York mother, writer, blogger and all round juggler of life.

To win a copy, all you have to do is comment on our blog – easy isn’t it? Bookmark us, subscribe to the RSS feed, whatever works for you – we just want you to have your say. We’ll be picking ten winners at random from comments left over the next seven days, so get posting! You could start by telling us a bit about your Mothers Day – did you get woken up with a tray of smoked salmon on scrambled eggs? A bouquet of flowers? Or maybe by a screaming baby!

About the film

Shot entirely on location in New York’s West Village, this bittersweet comedy distils the dilemmas of the maternal state (marriage, work, self, and not necessarily in that order) into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. MOTHERHOOD forms a genre of one – no other movie has dedicated itself in quite this way to probing exactly what it takes to be a mother, with both wry humour and an acute sense of authenticity.

Eliza Welch (Thurman) is a former fiction writer-turned-mom-blogger with her own site, “The Bjorn Identity.” Putting her deeper creative ambitions on hold to raise her two children, Eliza lives and works in two rent-stabilized apartments in a walk-up tenement building smack in the middle of an otherwise upscale Greenwich Village. Eliza’s good-natured but absent-minded husband (Edwards) seems tuned out to his wife’s conflicts, not to mention basic domestic reality, while her best friend Sheila (Minnie Driver) understands this – and Eliza — all too well.

MOTHERHOOD is a hymn to the joys and sorrows of raising children, and the necessity of not losing yourself in the process. Log onto www.motherhoodmovie.com for more competitions to be won and details about the film.

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