You Cannot Be Serious: And 32 Other Rules that Sustain a (Mostly) Balanced Mom

Jenna McCarthy, bestselling author

For years, Elizabeth Lyons has been asked how she does it all.

Whether she's negotiating a truce between her 10- and 5-year-old while eulogizing goldfish, swinging a sledgehammer in her garage-to-be nursery, bribing her twins to keep their pants on in the grocery store, planning her product line, strategically placing carrot seeds in her garden, receiving life lessons from her oldest daughter, or explaining to her kids why a fellow post office patron has pierced nipples, Elizabeth has discovered that the secret to navigating the land of euphoria and hysteria is a carefully crafted set of rules—for herself!

You Cannot Be Serious is a contemporary and humorous roadmap for "doing it all" that any woman can relate to for untying her own "nots." And for moms who lie awake at night wondering if their sanity will remain intact until the kids move out, Lyons provides a girlfriend-to-girlfriend guide, not just for getting through each day, but for being able to say with conviction, "I love my life."

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

"Rarely does a book infused with such hilarity provide such an encouraging and uplifting parenting outlook. You Cannot Be Serious is not only an imperative call to action, it's a nightstand necessity!"

-Cheryl Lage, author of Twinspiration

"You Cannot Be Serious offers 32 rules to help the modern woman survive—and even thrive—in the circus show that is motherhood. Always honest and uproariously funny, Lyons' personal narrative of walking the tightrope is spot-on accurate and should be on every mother's bookshelf...seriously."

-Jana Matthews, author of TheMeanestMom.blogspot.com

"A delightfully funny read with sound advice for any mom who could use a little balance between the diapers and the 'Don't touch that.'"

-Jen Singer, author of the Stop Second-Guessing Yourself guides to parenting and the creator of MommaSaid.net

Visit Elizabeth's website at www.ElizabethLyons.com.