Stephenie Freeman

Living with Cheese Eaters and Bald-headed Monkeys: Tales from a Mama Who Has It All and Still Wants More Stephenie Freeman

For every mama craving more-more sympathy and support, more peace and quiet, more time to herself, more patience-celebrated columnist Stephenie Bentley Freeman delivers a hearty dose of perspective and wit with her priceless, day-in-the-life true tales from a quasi-modern mama who is knee deep in domesticity and over the moon for her two kids (one who's a cheese addict and the other who has an uncanny resemblance to Curious George). Admittedly losing her mind faster than the baby weight, Freeman dares to find the humor in the chaos and the poignancy in the otherwise absurd. Whether she's debating squeezing herself into "Old McDonald's Jungle Gym of Germs" to retrieve her panicky tot, chastising her husband for forgetting to send her flowers on Giving-Birth Day, painstakingly removing poop from a wicker chair ("it requires a scrub brush, toothpicks, and a lot of patience"), or deeply regretting the day she first cut the crust off of her son's sandwich, Freeman writes candidly about the hilarious trials and countless joys of parenting. Living with Cheese Eaters and Bald-Headed Monkeys is filled with refreshingly honest, delightfully reassuring, and uncannily familiar chronicles that will resonate with frazzled moms everywhere whose blessings are many and who love their kids like crazy.