When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

Amy Wilson

Harper Collins, Mar 19, 2010 - Humor - 276 pages

“Amy Wilson’s hilarious, tender memoir…had me laughing out loud with recognition. She captures the small moments of motherhood in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking.”
—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

From the creator and star of the one-woman off-Broadway show Mother Load, comes When Did I Get Like This?, a screamingly funny take on being a modern woman, wife, and mother told with “a level of hilarity that even non-moms can appreciate” (Time Out). Amy Wilson’s poignant and provocative, utterly outrageous look at “the Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be” has already earned an appreciative response from Three-Martini Playdate author Christie Mellor, who calls it, “As entertaining as it is reassuring.”

Contents

• When Did I Get Like This?: 1
• A Little Bit Pregnant: 11
• Step Away from the Jumpy Castle: 26
• The Mother Who Prepares: 39
• Nipple Confusion: 55
• Bouncing Baby Boy: 69
• My Book of Faces: 85
• Translocation: 94
• Meaningful Montessori: 103
• A Tale of Two Mommies: 121
• The Big P: 131
• Beginning to Develop: 142
• Penny the Pig: 156
• Pretty: 166
• Mommy and Me: 175
• Disequilibrium: 185
• Taco Night: 197
• Inhumane: 209
• Liar Liar: 220
• Unaccompanied Mother: 234
• But Yes the Mommy: 245
• Acknowledgments: 255

About the author

Amy Wilson created the one-woman show Mother Load, which started in 2007 and has been touring the country ever since. As an actor, she has performed on Broadway, as a series regular on two sitcoms, and in dozens of other plays and films. Her writing appears regularly in Parenting magazine, as well as Redbook, Babytalk, babble.com, and CNN.com's "Living" page. But her favorite productions are her three young children, whom she raises with her husband in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
• Author: Amy Wilson
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2010
• ISBN: 0061988014, 9780061988011
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood; Humor / Form / Anecdotes & Quotations; Humor / Form / Essays