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　　Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and

delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life

on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most

deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most

terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….

A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in her latest report

from Sweetwater Farm, would have bought a house in the suburbs with

a cul-de-sac for her kids to ride bikes around instead of a

ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere with a rooster. With the

wryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be will

instantly recognize, Laskas offers a poignant and

laugh-out-loud-funny meditation on that greatest–and most

impossible–of all life’s journeys: motherhood.

What is it, she muses, that’s so exhausting about being a mom?

You’d think raising two little girls would be a breeze compared to

dealing with the barely controlled anarchy of “attack” roosters,

feuding neighbors, and a scheme to turn sheep into lawn mowers on

the fifty-acre farm she runs with her bemused husband Alex. But, as

any mother knows, you’d be wrong.

From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she

raises two children adopted from China to taking her daughters to

the mall for their first manicures, Jeanne Marie captures those

magic moments that make motherhood the most important and rewarding

job in the world–even if it’s never been done right. For, as she

concludes in one of her three a.m. worry sessions, feeling like a

bad mother is the only way to know you’re doing your job.

Whether confronting Sasha’s language delay, reflecting on

Anna’s devotion to a creepy backwards-running chicken, feeling

outclassed by the fabulous homeroom moms, or describing the rich,

secret language each family shares, these candid observations from

the front lines of parenthood are filled with love and laughter–and

radiant with the tough, tender, and timeless wisdom only raising

kids can teach us.

From the Hardcover edition.

BAD MOTHER

BIRTHDAY CHICKEN

UP FOR GRABS

MEETING THE GHOST-MOTHER

A COLD FRONT

SPEECHLESS

FASHION STATEMENT

A STUPID FEUD

FEVER ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

APRAXIA

FOSSIL

HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD

A DAY AT THE MALL

NIGHTS AT THE OPERA

ALL PUMPED UP

KILLING A SHEEP

LOVE, KINDERGARTEN STYLE

HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION

THE YOUNG FOLKS' HOME

THE FOGGIEST NOTION

NOTHING SURPRISES ME ANYMORE

　　Jeannne Marie Laskas is a columnist for The Washington Post

Magazine, a GQ correspondent, and the author of Fifty Acres and a

Poodle and the award-winning The Exact Same Moon. A professor in

the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she

also writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies Home Journal.

She lives with her husband and two children at Sweetwater Farm in

Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.

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书籍介绍

Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….

A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in her latest report from Sweetwater Farm, would have bought a house in the suburbs with a cul-de-sac for her kids to ride bikes around instead of a ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere with a rooster. With the wryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be will instantly recognize, Laskas offers a poignant and laugh-out-loud-funny meditation on that greatest–and most impossible–of all life’s journeys: motherhood.

What is it, she muses, that’s so exhausting about being a mom? You’d think raising two little girls would be a breeze compared to dealing with the barely controlled anarchy of “attack” roosters, feuding neighbors, and a scheme to turn sheep into lawn mowers on the fifty-acre farm she runs with her bemused husband Alex. But, as any mother knows, you’d be wrong.

From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she raises two children adopted from China to taking her daughters to the mall for their first manicures, Jeanne Marie captures those magic moments that make motherhood the most important and rewarding job in the world–even if it’s never been done right. For, as she concludes in one of her three a.m. worry sessions, feeling like a bad mother is the only way to know you’re doing your job.

Whether confronting Sasha’s language delay, reflecting on Anna’s devotion to a creepy backwards-running chicken, feeling outclassed by the fabulous homeroom moms, or describing the rich, secret language each family shares, these candid observations from the front lines of parenthood are filled with love and laughter–and radiant with the tough, tender, and timeless wisdom only raising kids can teach us.

From the Hardcover edition.