When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

by Amy Wilson
When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

by Amy Wilson

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Overview

“Amy Wilson’s hilarious, tender memoir…had me laughing out loud with recognition. She captures the small moments of motherhood in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking.”
—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

 

From the creator and star of the one-woman off-Broadway show Mother Load, comes When Did I Get Like This?, a screamingly funny take on being a modern woman, wife, and mother told with “a level of hilarity that even non-moms can appreciate” (Time Out). Amy Wilson’s poignant and provocative, utterly outrageous look at “the Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be” has already earned an appreciative response from Three-Martini Playdate author Christie Mellor, who calls it, “As entertaining as it is reassuring.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061963964
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 04/19/2011
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 1,010,851
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Amy Wilson created the one-woman show Mother Load, which started in 2007 and has been touring the country ever since. As an actor, she has performed on Broadway, as a series regular on two sitcoms, and in dozens of other plays and films. Her writing appears regularly in Parenting magazine, as well as Redbook, Babytalk, babble.com, and CNN.com's "Living" page. But her favorite productions are her three young children, whom she raises with her husband in New York City.

Table of Contents

1 When Did I Get Like This? 1

2 A Little Bit Pregnant 11

3 Step Away from the Jumpy Castle 26

4 The Mother Who Prepares 39

5 Nipple Confusion 55

6 Bouncing Baby Boy 69

7 My Book of Faces 85

8 Translocation 94

9 Meaningful Montessori 103

10 A Tale of Two Mommies 121

11 The Big P 131

12 Beginning to Develop 142

13 Penny the Pig 156

14 Pretty 166

15 Mommy and Me 175

16 Disequilibrium 185

17 Taco Night 197

18 Inhumane 209

19 Liar, Liar 220

20 Unaccompanied Mother 234

21 But Yes the Mommy 245

Acknowledgments 255

What People are Saying About This

Christie Mellor

“An honest, personal, and often hilarious collection of short, beautifully written chapters. As entertaining as it is reassuring.”

Pamela Paul

“Reading Amy Wilson’s book is like meeting your favorite new mom friend: She’s whip-smart, charming, enviably capable but as self-doubting as the rest of us, and very, very funny.”

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