The Motherload: When Your Life's on Spin Cycle and You Just Can't Get the Lid Up

by Caryl Kristensen and Marilyn Kentz

Book Overview

Two of America's favorite mommies bring their edgy, hysterically funny and right-on-target look at life in the sac. Cul-de-sac, that is. Caryl Kristensen and Marilyn Kentz, two suburbanites who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060191805
• ISBN13: 9780060191801
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Good medicine for overwhelmed moms

These funny, irreverent women help other mothers to find the humor in the mundane trials and tribulations of raising children. Whenever you start thinking you're not the perfect mother you wanted to be or that your kids aren't the perfect kids you wanted them to be, read another chapter of this book. Caryl and Marilyn will make you laugh and make you feel better about yourself and your family. Even if your life is perfect, read the book anyway. It will still make you laugh.

Good medicine for overwhelmed moms

These funny, irreverent women help other mothers to find the humor in the mundane trials and tribulations of raising children. Whenever you start thinking you're not the perfect mother you wanted to be or that your kids aren't the perfect kids you wanted them to be, read another chapter of this book. Caryl and Marilyn will make you laugh and feel better about yourself and your family. Even if your life is perfect, read the book anyway. It will still make you laugh.

An inspiration to women of all ages

I am a 19 year old college student from upstate New York, and I hopefully have a few more years until I have a husband and a family, but I just wanted you to know that I enjoyed The Mother Load from cover to cover. The book caught my eye because I loved your television series and your talk show. It was so funny that I couldn't put it down! I think it's great that the two of you were willing to share personal stories to inspire other women. I just wanted to let you know that it's not only wives and mothers who read your book. I think your book is an inspiration for women of all ages. I'm looking forward to the next one! Thank you very much.

Could not stop laughing!

Three friends; seven kids (girls-4,5,6 & 9...boys-4,5 & 8) were at a backyard pool. One friend starts reading "The Mother Load" to pass the time. She could not stop laughing out loud. In order to be in on the humor we made her read out loud. We had such a good time. Each of us took turns reading aloud while the kids swam. When we would take a break we'd share our own stories. We have never had so much fun and related to most of your tales. The "nirvana mommie" was hilarious. We planned to pass the book around, but it's so much more fun to read it aloud with your best friends. We are looking forward to seeing what you are up to next.

A hilarious yet thoughtful look at being a mom in the '90s

These women have an incredibly funny and fun view on parenting and relationships in today's world. I could not put the book down. I ended up feeling refreshed and even comforted to know that I was not alone in my travails as a mom.