{"product_id":"9780982844892","title":"AS IF I Had a Life, A memoir of a mom, wife, and somewhat of a person","description":"What's funny about being a mom? Just about everything. Maxine Parrick, aka, \"M\" takes the reader on a crazy carpool ride through nearly thirty years of parenting, from the \"not-so-natural Lamaze birth of her first child, to being a good mom to her two daughters, an educator, a writer, a community leader, a \"sex goddess\" for her husband and ultimately, a grandma. \u003cp\u003eEvery woman can relate to the fast paced, chaotic tales of wrestling with one's self-perception as you move from being a single woman, to a wife and then, a woman-who-is-a-mommy. Maxine shows us how to laugh at ourselves and shake our heads in wonder that we accomplish so much in twenty-four hours...and eighteen years!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChaperoning hormonal teenagers to soccer tournaments, hosting an \"overly-developed\" foreign exchange student (\"I just wanted to get her back home not pregnant!\"), leading a book club full of mothers so tired they can't finish the book, but can drink the wine, is all part of the joy of this mother's life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she returns to teaching college, and finds that the \"placenta had pulled out my brain tissue,\" or when she later starts a second career in a high-end retail store and discovers that she really in a mock-up of Game of Thrones, Maxine keeps us laughing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe shares her parenting triumphs, (a mother-daughter stint on Wheel of Fortune), her lapses, \u003cbr\u003e( her youngest points out that skinny jeans are not the same as tapered,) facing her sixties, and the ultimate payoff: becoming a grandma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everything is true, and well, survivable. I'm living proof and none of us are in jail...\" she quips. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout it all, she reminds us that everything a mom does is About the Love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HBeing Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49785598902512,"sku":"9780982844892","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982844892","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}