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Title of Book: @ Home for the Holidays By Meredith Efken
[SAHM I Am] A Week of Surprises! Both good ones and bad ones, apparently. Well, I’m afraid I have to add one to the “bad” column. Tom came home from work today and told me his company lost a major contract and is having to cut back it’s budget. So they’re sending his whole department to India. He and all the other programmers are being let go as of next week. Excerpt from @ Home for the Holidays This is book two of a series by Meredith Efken of Omaha. In the interest of full disclosure, I know Meredith and was inclined to like her book no matter what. But you know what? All personal ties aside, I really liked @ Home for the Holidays. The first book in the series SAHM I Am was so funny and fast paced. It made it really hard to put down. This book deals with more serious themes, although with a great back drop of laughs. I liked it as much or more than Book #1. There is an online group of women who call themselves SAHM, which stands for Stay At Home Moms. Their leader is a perfectionist nut, Rosalyn, who makes them all feel like failure in comparison to her idyllic life. There are several women who, while still belonging to SAHM, have formed their own small group to talk about the real problems of Stay at Home Moms. They call themselves Green Eggs and Ham. The Green Eggs and Ham ladies are the stars of these books. But the leader of SAHM and her sister have a good share of the story, too. Dulcie is again the heart of this book. In the excerpt I quoted, Dulcie’s husband loses his job and their family is thrown into crisis. But Zelia is trying to adopt a baby from Africa. Brenna is trying to adopt a frozen embryo, Jocelyn is over-volunteering herself to death, Marianne has post partum depression and the ladies on her loop can tell it but can’t convince her, and Phyllis is standing in at her church for her very sick pastor husband. And Rosalyn and her sister Veronica are at each others throats, each with their own problems. Rosalyn is trying to start a movement to boycott Christmas and Veronica is pregnant. These tangled up lives, written entirely as emails, jump from problem to problem, mixed in with the normal difficulties of moms and kids. It’s a great read. |
