All of life's moments are not amusing, some are downright terrifying, and others are laugh-out-loud funny, but Stimson comes through, in retrospect, with the goods to offer wisdom and a noteworthy perspective. She has that particular way with words and storytelling that makes the most out of learning to deal with grief. Stimson makes great, entertaining reading out of kids' unusual dating selections, shark attacks, sudden illness, and even an untimely death. This time around the focus is on family-kids Benjamin, Hannah, and Eli ex-husband, Steve and dogs too numerous to name-and the kinds of things that seem to blindside us all. In self-deprecating and hilarious fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimsons transition from city life to small Vermont farmhouse. Instead, they have adjusted to life as adoptive Vermonters, scoring fresh milk from neighborhood cows and eggs from their very own chickens.

'In Stimson's second delightful memoir, following Mud Season, she is no longer a fish out of water.

Stimson's irrepressible optimism prevails as she, her husband, her ex, their three kids, and various pets face real life-and even death and grieving-with good humor intact. Now imagine the governor asking you about it. Imagine being the mom of the kid who peed on his teacher's chair-on purpose. Mud Season by Stimson, Ellen 4.09 Free shipping Mud Season How One Woman s Dream of Moving to Vermont Raising Child 4.49 Free shipping Mud Season: How One Womans Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chicke 4. These are tales of parents with hopes and dreams, just trying to do their best, if not always succeeding. Following her hilarious book Mud Season (in which she told the story of that fateful day when she and her husband, having had such a wonderful time vacationing in Vermont, wondered aloud what living there would be like), Ellen Stimson here tells us how they set about raising kids in the paradise of this very small, very rural town.

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