Mom humor

Having been through most of the stages of motherhood in this book and now newly entered into the last of having adult children, I found myself laughing out loud at the various scenarios presented in this book.  Harrison takes moms through the stages of motherhood from pregnancy to infants and toddlers up through teens and being a mother of adult children with snippets of humor and sentiment such as the following:

You know you're a pregnant mom when... You stop to thank God for making you a woman.  Who can have a baby.  OR You skip Lamaze class and go to Dairy Queen because you are pretty certain the baby can find his way out.

Baby:  You and your husband count your baby's stools and compare notes over dinner.  OR You call your mother-in-law for advice.

Toddler:  You spend hours teaching your baby to walk and talk, then later wish he would sit down and be quite.   OR  You take your kids to the playground so they can run free--and then panic when you lose sight of them.

School-age kids:  You find yourself running for PTA president--and really caring if you win.  OR You think that if your kid gets hungry enough, he will eat spinach.   You are wrong.

Working mom:  You tear up in the car because you've been tearfully begged not to take them to day care.  OR You stay home with your sick child even though you have three meetings that day.

Teen:  You immediately know something's wrong because the noise in the house has become dead quiet.  OR You keep every Mother's Day card in a special box and reread them year after year.

You know you're a mom with adult kids when....You're so happy the entire family has gathered for dinner that you cook without complaint for a vegetarian, a meat lover, and someone who's lactose intolerant.  OR You wake up during a violent thunderstorm, worrying that your twenty-five-year-old might be driving right then.

The job of a mom NEVER ends.  Whether you are have just found out you are pregnant or you are a stay at home mom who wonders if you will ever have time to do something for yourself or if you are the mother of adult children, that maternal instinct seems to be in overdrive.  I love the memories this book evoked as I read it and often laughed or grew a little sad knowing that these are just memories and I don't have the opportunity to have little people in my house that are my own ever again.  While I look forward to being a grandparent someday, it just won't be quite the same. 

This small hard bound gift book has been released at a perfect time for Mother's Day but I also think it would make a fun book for an expectant mother.  It speak to moms at any stage in  life. 

I did receive this book free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review and I was in no way obligated to write a positive one.