A delightful trip through the four seasons of a mother's year. From lighthearted peeks at family vacations, back-to-school shopping, canning season, and Christmas plays to poignant insights on deferred dreams, parental heartaches, childhood memories, and family relationships.

Why Does My Mother's Day Potted Plant Always Die?

Politics & Social Sciences

Baadsgaard, Janene Wolsey

Social Sciences

Deseret Book Co.

Popular columnist Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard takes a delightful look at family life gone wild. In Families Who Laugh...Last, parents will find a handy list of things to worry about, snappy comebacks they can use for comments on pregnancy, detailed analyses on how family reunions and mealtimes work, tips on how to talk teacherese with teachers, and reasons why fathers can change diapers more easily than mothers. With over eighty vignettes and essays, the author depicts families at their most exhausting - and best.

Families Who Laugh--Last

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Is there life after debt? If money can't buy happiness, what will? How can you get off the treadmill of our material society and enjoy life -- without starving? Family Finances for the Flabbergasted is a delightful, thought-provoking look at the world of family finances which will help answer these questions and much more! Family Finances for the Flabbergasted tells you how to win the money game by knowing that the best things in life are things. Manage your money before it manages you by making your gross income a little less gross, living on less than you earn (without feeling deprived), accept that work is a blessing and not a curse. Family Finances for the Flabbergasted includes scores of fun, effective ways to make money at home as well.

Family Finances for the Flabbergasted

Business & Money

Growing up in the middle of a large family, Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard felt that she had no unique place in the scheme of the universe. So, in an effort to obtain some sympathy, she swallowed three giant spoonfuls of mustard. But it wasn't pity she wanted. She needed to feel important. Whether he eats mustard to get it, every child needs to feel a sense of self-worth to sustain him and give his life meaning. Too many parents forget that before children leave home to begin school, they must know and be confident of their own importance. In A Sense Of Wonder, Mrs. Baadsgaard, a writer and full-time mother, discusses her methods for helping children keep their innate sense of wonder and thus develop their feelings of self-worth.

A Sense of Wonder: Helping Children Discover Their Own Self-Worth

Deseret Book

In this book mothers of young children will find the answers to questions such as: Is there a way to stay home with my young children and like it? Will life ever get back to normal after I start having children? What are some valid reasons for choosing to be a full-time homemaker? How can my husband and I keep the romance in our marriage? How can I give a good start to my day? How can I cope with the messes that seem to come with a family? How can I contribute to the family budget? Most emphatically, the author states, "Yes! There is life after birth!" And it's a life that's full and rewarding.

Is There Life After Birth?

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Motherhood is like an exciting roller coaster ride. We’re smiling and laughing one minute, then screaming the next. Get ready for the ride of your life—a ride on the roller coaster called motherhood! Humorous and perceptive author Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard will take you on an exhilarating-exhausting, exuberant-exasperating journey through the ups and downs, twists and turns of modern mothering. Janene covers all the well-known "eras" of family life—such as A.D. (Always-Diapers Period) and the Middle Ages (Unenlightened Period). Hilarious one moment and quietly moving the next, this book captures both the trying and the tender moments of motherhood. Being a mother is an ongoing adventure, and so, as the author observes, "the idea is to hold on tight, take a deep breath, and enjoy the whole wild and unpredictable ride."

On the Roller Coaster Called Motherhood

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Spring Creek Book Company

This hilarious tale follows the mishaps of an LDS mother and bishop's wife who finds out that her ninth baby is on the way, and her husband has placed her in charge of the ward Christmas party.

Sister Bishop's Christmas miracle

Bookcraft

When LaRue Willey (fondly dubbed Sister Bishop by ward members) decides to go back to school to finish her degree, she doesn't realize just how much of an education she's in for. The mother of nine and the wife of a bishop, she knows that her plan won't be an easy one . . .

Expecting Joy

Grin and Share It : Raising a Family with a Sense of Humor

Deseret Book Company

What do you do when your child runs into your bedroom and announces that it is raining in the basement? How do you make your way across a carpet that's been booby-trapped with Legos? You can moan and groan, or you can do what author Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard recommends and apply a healthy dose of humor to your family situation. Fkuent in the most important language of Childese, the author helps parents correctly interpret everything from an infant's cry to a toddler's desperate facial expression to a teen's smart-aleck remarks. You'll find yourself smiling at things that didn't seems so funny before. This book is a great antidote to discouragement and a powerful testimony that families are the most wonderful blessing of all.

Grin and Share It: Raising a Family With a Sense of Humor

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