Through treasured emails, letters, diary entries, and columns, Kathleen Buckstaff re-creates her life as a mother of young children in this award-winning motherhood memoir. We follow Kathleen as she gets her first big break writing about her children, her husband, and their dog, Rosie, for the Los Angeles Times. Kathleen's stories hit home with many readers and the Los Angeles Times offered her a sweet deal to pen more columns. Writing with a rare and honest voice, Kathleen shares moments such as trying on foam bellies in a maternity dressing room, her children tricking the tooth fairy, and using chocolate to bribe her mother to babysit. Then, unexpectedly, her vibrant mother becomes ill, and Kathleen must learn how to be a mother to her own mom.
Kathleen shows the humor, hard work, insanity, love, and joy that are involved in being a mother and a caretaker.

Selected by Women Magazine as a most-notable cancer-related book, honored as a USA Best Book Awards Finalist and an International Book Awards Finalist.

I found this book on the discount shelves of a local used book store.

Left at the Adara Spa Book Nook @ 608 W Peace Street, Raleigh NC #BookCrossing #adaraspa https://goo.gl/1syyky

I am buying books from the outside shelves at The Readers Corner (a Raleigh used book store) and releasing them. This is one of those books. If you like it, take it and write a journal entry at www.BookCrossing.com - its easy and anonymous. Then when you are done with it, find a nice person or place to release it. I look forward to reading your thoughts on this book and finding out where you got it from. This book is on an adventure we can share with it.