I'd like to introduce you all to Lucy Adams, author of If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny. Lucy Adams has stopped here at Good Golly Miss Blondie for her virtual blog book tour. It's a hilarious book that anyone who is a mother must read. I can relate to so many stories in her book and I love the way she interperts life as a mother. If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is definitely the prescription you need. Trust me this is one book you'll want to read!
Here is an exerpt from her book:
Tattle-some-evil, Do-some-evil, See-some-evil, Say-some-evil,
The kids, in the midst of our dressing frenzy, wander off to the sofa, where I find them lined up, oldest to youngest, Say-some-evil, See-some-evil, Do-some-evil, and Tattle-some-evil. Perfect, I think, and go along behind them plastering hair into place with spray and spit. They vehemently complain about my intrusion into their personal space.
Say-some-evil, hasn’t combed his hair in so long that his scalp hurts when the brush challenges the direction of hair growth. “Ouch,” he protests.
“Quit complaining. Turn around and let me see,” I admonish. I’m not prepared for the shock. Quickly, with both hands, I muss up his hair. He gives me a my-mom-is-so-weird-
but-I-got-what-I-want look.
“Get in the car,” I call out to deaf ears. I turn off the TV.
“What’d you do that for,” asks See-some-evil.
“Remember the reason I got you dressed?”
"No,” he lies.
Through clenched teeth, I demand, “Get in the car.”
“I don’t want my picture taken,” grumbles Say-some-evil, stomping out the door, kicking the cat.
We roll into the photography studio like a herd of elephants ahead of a tornado. And while I fi ll out the paperwork, my youngest son, Do-some-evil, begins traversing the
room by crawling under chairs and tables, both occupied and empty. Tattle-some-evil follows along whining, “I’m telling Mama.” See-some-evil encourages this raucous behavior just by observing. And Say-some-evil laughs uncontrollably.
The receptionist directs a piecing glare at me as she points to another patron’s two blond preschoolers sitting quietly on the margins, round-faced and red-lipped cherubs. “They’ve sat like that since they arrived.”
I want to scream at her, “Do you know what I went through to get here?” but I don’t. I smile tautly and explain, “That’s not normal.”
“Oh, and that is?” she sarcastically says, nodding at my boys dragging each other across the floor by the ankles, while my daughter hopscotches around the fingertips of the dragees.
At last, it’s our turn. They line up in front of the backdrop wiggling like worms in a styrofoam bowl. “Say Mama has stinky feet,” instructs the photographer. By some undeserved miracle, they forget their mission to mortify me, quit behaving like starved cats, and lean toward one another endearingly.
Smile. Flash. Snap.
Scramble. Bang. Crash.
The moment lost, we roll out of there like a barrel of rodeo clowns ahead of a bull.
(Excerpted from If Mama Don’t Laugh, It Ain’t Funny (Palm Tree Press), by Lucy Adams. Reprinted here by permission of the author.)
As a thank you for hosting her book tour, Lucy Adams, is giving one of Miss Blondie's readers an If Mama Don't Laugh baseball cap!! I'll be honest, i'm a little bummed I can't win this myself.
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