S.A.H.M.
I Am
Tales
of a Stay-at-Home Mom in Europe
By
Christine Louise Hohlbaum
Humor
is the Answer
Stay at Home Mom Popularizes Acronym,
Supports Her S.A.H.M. Sisters Everywhere
Every parent with young children,
every prospective parent, and every parent long past the Dy-dee
stage will find Christine Louise Hohlbaum's S.A.H.M. I Am instructive
and fun reading.
A foreword by Cynthia Brian of Chicken
Soup fame lauds this book of essays by a woman who she says, "exalts
the roles of housewife and mother to the level of CEO--Chief Excitement
Officer."
During a visit to New York, I was
amazed at the number of moms wheeling strollers in Central Park
on a sunny May Monday morning. Now I notice more and more young
women staying home but I didn't realize it had become a trend of
such proportions to deserve its own acronym right along with WASPS,
WHAM, and as Hohlbaum points out, AWOL and MASH.
My days of rinsing out real cloth
diapers in the toilet to ready them for their Clorox bath in the
smelly canister kept nearby are long gone but it seems to me that
that Chapter 36 where you'll find several pages of "You know
you are a parent when
" statements would be an ideal tutorial
for women considering motherhood. The canisters and Clorox may be
things of the past but there is still much in the life of a mom
with young children that requires a healthy dose of humor to survive.
Author Hohlbaum has a perfect sense
of the absurd, enough not only to survive, but to do it in style.
Her stories are inspirational, funny, and short enough for a mother
to read in the span of time her children will spend taking their
naps. It is exciting that Hohlbaum is enjoying life with two pre-schoolers
but I can't help but wonder if she would be doing so well if it
weren't for that computer that connects her to the outside world
and that her writing may be working as therapy in printer's ink.
For all young parents who don't have those advantages, there is
S.A.H.M. It is a book designed for maintaining sanity with
a chortle or two.
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The
Book |
Mom-Writers Publishing Cooperative, 2005 |
2005 |
Paperback |
1932279148
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Nonfiction/ Essays/Parenting |
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Excerpt
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NOTE:
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The
Reviewer |
Carolyn Howard-Johnson |
Reviewed
2005 |
NOTE:
Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the award-winning author of This
is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered
and The Frugal Book Promoter
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