Life's Alphabet Soup

When Terri Ferran traded a six-figure CFO career for full-time motherhood—prompted by fibromyalgia and clinical depression—she discovered that laughter was as necessary as prayer. From Allowance to Zoomph, these twenty-six short, Dr. Seuss–inspired essays skewer the daily absurdities of raising six kids: chore wars, pickle bans, rat hunts, karate tournaments, Lake Powell disasters, and the eternal question, "What's for dinner?" Warm, self-deprecating, and honest about the guilt and imperfection of parenting, it's a book that lightens the load one chuckle at a time.

• A CFO walks away from a six-figure salary to raise six kids—and finds the funny in the fallout.
• Twenty-six bite-sized, laugh-out-loud essays you can read one chapter a night when you finally get the kids down.
• The 'No More Pets' contract, the great powdered-milk-is-cat's-milk lie, and 24 dead rats on the Fourth of July—real motherhood, unfiltered.
• For every mom who feels like she's failing: proof that laughter and a Diet Coke can lighten any load.

“This kitchen serves the four basic food groups: chocolate fudge, chocolate brownies, chocolate ice cream, and diet cola.”

Perfect for an overwhelmed LDS mom who needs to laugh at the chaos of raising kids and be reminded that imperfect is okay.