Home on the Strange : Chronicles of Motherhood, Mayhem, and Matters of the Heart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lundy, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lundy, Susan.

Motherhood.

Mothers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Home on the Strange

Place of Publication:

Victoria : Heritage House, 2021.

Summary:

A funny, heart-warming ode to motherhood written by an award-winning journalist and humour columnist. For Susan Lundy, motherhood began when she moved into her boyfriend's Salt Spring Island home at the age of twenty-one. Her new living arrangement came with furniture, a pair of kids, and a biting gerbil named Quasimodo. Susan was a career-oriented budding journalist, eager to write her way to fame and fortune. Becoming a mom was not part of her plan--at least not yet. But after surveying her new domicile with quiet horror at first, she grew into her new role, discarding many of the lessons her mother had given her about keeping house and inventing her own rules as she went along. By the time her two daughters were born, Susan had already fallen deeply in love with motherhood. Moreover, she chronicled her family's topsy-turvy Gulf Island life in a collection of popular newspaper and magazine columns. Home on the Strange follows Susan's journey from pregnancy to parenthood, career milestones to birds-and-bees talks, separation to new love at mid-life, and cross-country road trips to empty nesting during a global pandemic. Charming, poignant, and frequently hilarious, this is the perfect book for mothers or moms-to-be at any stage of their journey. career milestones to birds-and-bees talks, separation to new love at mid-life, and cross-country road trips to empty nesting during a global pandemic. Charming, poignant, and frequently hilarious, this is the perfect book for mothers or moms-to-be at any stage of their journey.career milestones to birds-and-bees talks, separation to new love at mid-life, and cross-country road trips to empty nesting during a global pandemic. Charming, poignant, and frequently hilarious, this is the perfect book for mothers or moms-to-be at any stage of their journey.career milestones to birds-and-bees talks, separation to new love at mid-life, and cross-country road trips to empty nesting during a global pandemic. Charming, poignant, and frequently hilarious, this is the perfect book for mothers or moms-to-be at any stage of their journey.

Contents:

Intro

Praise for Home on the Strange

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Author's Note

Prologue: In the Beginning

Part One - Family First

Motherhood

The Cranberry

Home on the Strange

The Awakening

Pink All Over

Letting Go

Knocked Up . . . Again

In the ICU

Mayhem

Nursing (Forever)

Playtime

Parenting Purrla

Driving Questions

Daydream

A Tale of Two Teeth

Talking About Sex

Food for Thought

A Focus on Fashion

When the Apple Doesn't Fall Close to the Tree

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Moms on the Podium

Holiday Havoc

So You Think You Can Sew . . . a Slug?

Meeting the Costume Challenge: Round Two

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Christmas and Chaos

Menagerie

Pets that Go Beep, Beep

Fashion: Going to the Dogs

A Penchant for Peculiar Pets

The Many Lives of Pepper the Hamster

Pet Sanctuary: The Cockatiels

Life in the Slow Lane

A Few Words About Salt Spring

Two Men, One Name

When Country Meets City

His-and-Hers Driving Souvenirs

Jinxed by Dad

Transitions

On Being a Mom

As the Years Go By

A Second Beginning

Part Two - My Act 2

Growth

Doing the "Adult" Thing

The Grad Dresses

Dark Days

An Empty Nest Perspective: Goodbyes and Hellos

Matters of the Heart

The Perfect Cuppa

When It's Meant to Be

A New World Order

Festivals That Ooze with Booze

The Path of Most Resistance

Hockey: A Relationship Tester

Baby, It's Frosty Out There

City Living: Calgary, Meet Salt Spring

Fashion Angst

Top Dogs

Celebrating Mid-Life Weddings

Magical Moments: The Hitching

Joys of the Journey

V-Dubbing Canada

Sailing Down Memory Channel

Intuitive Driving

Me Time

The Big 5-OH

Me and Blythe

Beating the Winter Blues

Shop 'Til You Drop? No.

"Me Time"? Building a Bountiful Garden

Amazing Racers

Taming the Extroverts

Gifts of Joy

Heartfelt: Finding Moments to Treasure

Mind Over Matter? I Think Not.

A Time for the Talented

Headbangers

Dreaming of a "Green" Christmas

Out of the Woods

What We Did on Our Christmas Vacation

The Matter of the Pink Shirt

Getaway on Mother's Day

And Onto the Next Chapter

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Copyright Page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781772033656

1772033650

OCLC:

1225198401