Excerpt
"I want to be the kind of mother who never talks about diapers or potty training, who doesn't dream of boring you with which child did or didn't wake Mommy up last night. I want to be the kind of mother who loves her children without losing herself and whose sassy sense of humor is slightly off kilter and makes engineering husbands deeply uncomfortable. 'I need this', I say to myself while pouring that first glass of crisp white into a pretty glass. My shoulders relaxing, I look at my three kids through narrowing warrior eyes and think, 'Bring it!'"