The follow-up is just as warm and wise as the first, and in my opinion, even wittier. Plus, there isn’t a single mention of social media in it (a good thing, if you ask me).Ī little over ten years later, Kristin published Did I Say That Out Loud? Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them. Reviewing it again to recommend it here, it has aged well. Using experiences from her own life, Kristen presents terms and concepts in alphabetical order: from absentee parenthood to musical beds to Zuzu’s petals phenomenon – you’ll have to read the book to find out what this is. This book perfectly captures the joys and frustrations of working motherhood. I was in it up to my eyebrows, working from home (more than full-time most days) and hearing questions like, “Why aren’t you more involved in the PTA?” from people who hardly knew me. When I received her first book, Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom, as a gift in 2010, my kids were ten, twelve, and fourteen. I first noticed Kristin when she was the editor of Real Simple and immediately fell in love with her personal and powerful writing. She calls the youngest her mid-life crisis baby – she had him at age forty-three – ten years and two miscarriages after her first two boys were born. Kristin van Ogtrop has raised three sons in the suburbs while working high-powered jobs in publishing over the past twenty years. Relatable, funny, and easy to read – Kristin van Ogtrop’s essay collections should be on every mom’s bookshelf (and/or Kindle).
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