Once, Lori Borgman had parenting all figured out: with the patience of Job, the wisdom of Dr. Spock, and the domestic panache of Martha Stewart, she would raise her cheerfully compliant children. That was before she had kids -- kids who stand up in their high chairs. Shove peas up their noses. Throw pre-nap tantrums, all in quadraphonic stereo sound.... Lori Borgman's fuzzy and prickly ode to parenthood is a laugh-out-loud reality check that only a seasoned mother of three could write. Drawn from her nationally acclaimed newspaper columns, these wise and witty snapshots capture family life as it really is -- part Norman Rockwell, part Stephen King -- and where nothing is as she imagined it would be in her pre-baby days....In league with Dave Barry, Erma Bombeck, and Anna Quindlen, but with a voice uniquely her own, Lori Borgman plunges into parenthood with her eyes wide open, and laughs along with us at the perils -- er, make that the joys -- of family life. Read Less