Loving the Little Years. Motherhood in the Trenches

"I didn't write this book because mothering is easy for me. I wrote it because it isn't. I know this is a hard job, because I am right here in the middle of it. I know you need encouragement because I do too. This is not a tender reminiscence. At the time of writing this, I have three children in diapers, and I can recognize the sound of hundreds of toothpicks being dumped out in the hall. Excuse me for a moment, won't you...