![]() ![]() ![]() Reviewing it again to recommend it here, it has aged well. Using experiences from her own life, Kristen presents terms and concepts in alphabetical order: from absentee parenthood to musical beds to Zuzu’s petals phenomenon – you’ll have to read the book to find out what this is. This book perfectly captures the joys and frustrations of working motherhood. I was in it up to my eyebrows, working from home (more than full-time most days) and hearing questions like, “Why aren’t you more involved in the PTA?” from people who hardly knew me. When I received her first book, Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom, as a gift in 2010, my kids were ten, twelve, and fourteen. ![]() I first noticed Kristin when she was the editor of Real Simple and immediately fell in love with her personal and powerful writing. She calls the youngest her mid-life crisis baby – she had him at age forty-three – ten years and two miscarriages after her first two boys were born. Kristin van Ogtrop has raised three sons in the suburbs while working high-powered jobs in publishing over the past twenty years. ![]() Relatable, funny, and easy to read – Kristin van Ogtrop’s essay collections should be on every mom’s bookshelf (and/or Kindle). ![]()
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