Ordinary Days - Family Life in a Farmhouse

Informationen zum Autor Dorcas Smucker is a mother of six and a Mennonite minister's wife. She is the author of Ordinary Days: Family Life in a Farmhouse , Upstairs the Peasants are Revolting: More Family Life in a Farmhouse , and Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting . In addition to blogging and speaking to various groups, Dorcas also writes a column, "Letter from Harrisburg," for the Eugene, Oregon Register-Guard . She resides in Harrisburg, Oregon. Klappentext True tales from a family of six spirited kids told by their mother in her disarmingly entertaining! yet encouraging! voice. Zusammenfassung           Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That'll test any mama's strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings?picking blueberries while watching for bears! hoping for angels driving off the nearby freeway! moving into the "thousand-story house." Then there was the four-week road trip! which! Dorcas says! "My sister-in-law warned me would be like putting your whole family in the bathroom and staying there for three days."           There are no recipes here. But there is story upon story. Dorcas has three daughters and three sons. And she has a voice?encouraging! doubting! entertaining! but never taking herself too seriously. Often slightly off-stride! and with disarming humility! Dorcas keeps finding resource in her life at home.

Product details

• Authors: Dorcas Smucker, Smucker Dorcas
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2006
• EAN: 9781561485222
• ISBN: 978-1-56148-522-2
• No. of pages: 155
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Advice on parenting, Parenting: advice and issues