"Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours"

Hi Mommy, I thought you could really use some help these days. You're looking a little tired, and for some reason you have started to ignore my screams? What was that all about at the store the other day when I was screaming at the top of my lungs and you were humming me a song, smiling? I really enjoy screaming lately, can you tell? Well, since I give you so much extra time through out the days to just sit around...you know, in between picking me up all day long & diapers, stories, baths, feedings, snacks, bottles, clean-up, and making Daddy dinners, I thought you might enjoy this book I got you. I'm not sure what it says, but I think the little boy on the front looks silly. Enjoy!!!! Love, Audie Audrey Lynn,

Well honestly, precious one, I am losing it these days. Maybe it's the lack of sleep I'm getting with the trips to the bathroom in the night, or the painful leg cramps that cause me to JUMP out of bed (which is actually a slower process than leaping gracefully to "stomp" out the cramp...by the time I've actually rolled myself out of bed I'm screaming in pain!!!!!!!) and leave me sore for days in my calf, or maybe it's that you're getting your last few teeth in----at the same time----and are not too happy about it, thus letting us know in high shrieking screams.

Or perhaps it's that I have a very long to-do list of things I'd really like to get done before your sister arrives, and I am getting increasingly aware I may run out of time. Or maybe it's the fact that we actually DO have a new little Roth Baby coming soon and I'm nervous of all the "what-ifs"...from labor pains & the time it will happen (will my water break randomly when we're camping next week, 3 hrs away from home?.....or will it all happen the actual due-date week when Daddy has to be at training all week 3 hrs away from us?....), to having everything in order & ready, to the actual sleeplessness & balancing TWO children...... (BREATHE)

Thank you, however, for your thoughtful consideration that I may

a) Enjoy this book

b) Actually have time to read it

Ummm.. Audrey, why is the chapter on "spanking" ripped out of the book??