I had great expectations of this book from the reviews that I had read. The book was supposed to be hilarious and witty. However, I felt like I was reading someone's whiny diary. She spends a great deal of time complaining about her husband and hovering over her only child. A few parts are funny or thoughtful, but for the most part she just goes on and on about how she has to prepare catastrophe plans for every possible event that might happen and how she doesn't cook. She seems like a bored, unhappy wife and mother that needs to get a job or hobby outside the home.

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I loved this book and feel like the author and I are leading parallel lives. There are a few geographical adjustments because she is in CA and I am the Midwest, but she could be writing about my life! She has a tough time as a lacrosse mom; my own initiation as a hockey mom was also a little rocky.
She doesn't actually enjoy her dinner at the exclusive restaurant with organically grown, simply prepared food. I don't participate in the locally grown co-op that friends encourage us to join. My 6 year old gags and throws up on his dinner plate when he tries a green bean from our backyard garden - why would I pay good money for other people's vegetables only one person (the wonderful and loving husband - again just like this book!) would enjoy?
Her husband wants her to try camping. Thankfully mine bought a 3 person tent because we have 2 kids. Her Ninemandments (nine year olds' rules for living) were so accurate to what goes on in our household that my husband didn't believe she had written them. (Would that I could be so witty and true!)
Whatever topic she covers - Halloween costumes & rituals, putting your pet to sleep, car pool lines, hair care, making dinner, disaster preparedness, buying a mattress, sending your child to camp - her writing is funny and delightful and sad and graceful. Enjoy!!

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