Motherhood Is Not For Sissies Author:Evelyn Beilenson Motherhood is not for sissies. A mother needs strength, courage, patience, a big heart, and most of all, a good sense of humor. Raising children is not for the fainthearted; they disturb your sleep, add wrinkles to your b row and test the limits of your physical endurance. Who else but a mother can press forty pounds of toddler in one arm while ... more »making dinner with the other and singing the alphabet to boot?
And yet, at the end of the day, there is no other work (every mother is a working mother) that is quite as satisfying. The smile and the hug are the best thank youa mother can receive.
And then those toddlers become teens. That's what Ed Asner probably had in mind when he said that raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
This keepsake is dedicated to all mothers. We hope the images and messages in the pages following pages will make you smile, ruefully perhaps, as you face the daily hair-raising but humorous events that define motherhood.« less