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Home on the strange : chronicles of motherhood, mayhem, and matters of the heart / Susan Lundy.

Summary:

"A funny, heart-warming ode to motherhood written by an award-winning journalist and humour columnist. For Susan Lundy, motherhood began when she moved into her boyfriend's Salt Spring Island home at the age of twenty-one. Her new living arrangement came with furniture, a pair of kids, and a biting gerbil named Quasimodo. Susan was a career-oriented budding journalist, eager to write her way to fame and fortune. Becoming a mom was not part of her plan--at least not yet. But after surveying her new domicile with quiet horror at first, she grew into her new role, discarding many of the lessons her mother had given her about keeping house and inventing her own rules as she went along. By the time her two daughters were born, Susan had already fallen deeply in love with motherhood. Moreover, she chronicled her family's topsy-turvy Gulf Island life in a collection of popular newspaper and magazine columns. Home on the Strange follows Susan's journey from pregnancy to parenthood, career milestones to birds-and-bees talks, separation to new love at mid-life, and cross-country road trips to empty nesting during a global pandemic. Charming, poignant, and frequently hilarious, this is the perfect book for mothers or moms-to-be at any stage of their journey."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 1772033650
ISBN: 9781772033656
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Heritage House Publishing, 2021.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Intro -- Praise for Home on the Strange -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue: In the Beginning -- Part One -- Family First -- Motherhood -- The Cranberry -- Home on the Strange -- The Awakening -- Pink All Over -- Letting Go -- Knocked Up . . . Again -- In the ICU -- Mayhem -- Nursing (Forever) -- Playtime -- Parenting Purrla -- Driving Questions -- Daydream -- A Tale of Two Teeth -- Talking About Sex -- Food for Thought -- A Focus on Fashion -- When the Apple Doesn't Fall Close to the Tree -- Like Mother, Like Daughter -- Moms on the Podium -- Holiday Havoc -- So You Think You Can Sew . . . a Slug? -- Meeting the Costume Challenge: Round Two -- How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- Christmas and Chaos -- Menagerie -- Pets that Go Beep, Beep -- Fashion: Going to the Dogs -- A Penchant for Peculiar Pets -- The Many Lives of Pepper the Hamster -- Pet Sanctuary: The Cockatiels -- Life in the Slow Lane -- A Few Words About Salt Spring -- Two Men, One Name -- When Country Meets City -- His-and-Hers Driving Souvenirs -- Jinxed by Dad -- Transitions -- On Being a Mom -- As the Years Go By -- A Second Beginning -- Part Two -- My Act 2 -- Growth -- Doing the "Adult" Thing -- The Grad Dresses -- Dark Days -- An Empty Nest Perspective: Goodbyes and Hellos -- Matters of the Heart -- The Perfect Cuppa -- When It's Meant to Be -- A New World Order -- Festivals That Ooze with Booze -- The Path of Most Resistance -- Hockey: A Relationship Tester -- Baby, It's Frosty Out There -- City Living: Calgary, Meet Salt Spring -- Fashion Angst -- Top Dogs -- Celebrating Mid-Life Weddings -- Magical Moments: The Hitching -- Joys of the Journey -- V-Dubbing Canada -- Sailing Down Memory Channel -- Joys of the Journey -- Intuitive Driving -- Me Time -- The Big 5-OH -- Me and Blythe -- Beating the Winter Blues -- Shop 'Til You Drop? No.

"Me Time"? Building a Bountiful Garden -- Amazing Racers -- Taming the Extroverts -- Gifts of Joy -- Heartfelt: Finding Moments to Treasure -- Mind Over Matter? I Think Not. -- A Time for the Talented -- Headbangers -- Gifts of Joy -- Dreaming of a "Green" Christmas -- Out of the Woods -- What We Did on Our Christmas Vacation -- The Matter of the Pink Shirt -- Getaway on Mother's Day -- And Onto the Next Chapter -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.

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