Operating Instructions
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coffeesnob318Book # 32: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
I don’t usually read whole books about motherhood, but I love Anne Lamott to the core of my being, so I decided to give it a try. I love it. She’s very candid anyway, but she multiplied it by ten for this book. There must be something about being very tired all the time that does that to a person.
Some of my favorite parts:
- She discussed her fears of bringing a child into the world and how she would be as a mother. She named a lot of scary things. But her biggest fear is knowing that, no matter what she does, he would have to go through the seventh and eighth grades.
- "He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. He was like moonlight."
- When she went to church when he was a few weeks old, they asked her to bring him to the front and introduce him. She barely got out, "This is my son, Sam," because she was crying and they were crying, loving her and her son both so much that their hearts almost broke from joy. Her description took my breath away.
- She tried his pacifier, but threw it away because she was concerned that she’d get addicted. Lol!
- "His hands are like little stars."
- Ach! She asked the nurse if most mothers cried the first time their babies got shots, and the nurse told her flatly, "No." That’s just mean. You don’t listen to her, Anne. I know plenty of people who cried along with their child.
- "Now as I watch he’s inching all over the place, obviously trying to implement his plans for world peace."
- Scaring the kitty with banshee screams! Tee hee!
-"He’s so beautiful, so funny, so incredibly dear, and he smells like God."
-"My plans for molding him into the leader of the rebel forces do not seem to be going very well."
This book is captivating. I am totally in love with this child.
I don’t usually read whole books about motherhood, but I love Anne Lamott to the core of my being, so I decided to give it a try. I love it. She’s very candid anyway, but she multiplied it by ten for this book. There must be something about being very tired all the time that does that to a person.
Some of my favorite parts:
- She discussed her fears of bringing a child into the world and how she would be as a mother. She named a lot of scary things. But her biggest fear is knowing that, no matter what she does, he would have to go through the seventh and eighth grades.
- "He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. He was like moonlight."
- When she went to church when he was a few weeks old, they asked her to bring him to the front and introduce him. She barely got out, "This is my son, Sam," because she was crying and they were crying, loving her and her son both so much that their hearts almost broke from joy. Her description took my breath away.
- She tried his pacifier, but threw it away because she was concerned that she’d get addicted. Lol!
- "His hands are like little stars."
- Ach! She asked the nurse if most mothers cried the first time their babies got shots, and the nurse told her flatly, "No." That’s just mean. You don’t listen to her, Anne. I know plenty of people who cried along with their child.
- "Now as I watch he’s inching all over the place, obviously trying to implement his plans for world peace."
- Scaring the kitty with banshee screams! Tee hee!
-"He’s so beautiful, so funny, so incredibly dear, and he smells like God."
-"My plans for molding him into the leader of the rebel forces do not seem to be going very well."
This book is captivating. I am totally in love with this child.
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Date: 2006-11-03 03:05 pm (UTC)Oh my God! That is so true! I'd say the fifth or sixth thought I had when I found out I was having a girl was, "Oh my God! I have to do middle school with a girl!!" It was hard enough the first time.
She asked the nurse if most mothers cried the first time their babies got shots, and the nurse told her flatly, "No." That’s just mean. You don’t listen to her, Anne. I know plenty of people who cried along with their child.
Right on. I'd cry. I haven't given her shots yet, but I will cry when she gets them.
"He’s so beautiful, so funny, so incredibly dear, and he smells like God."
Yes.
I'm clearingly going to have to buy this one.
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Date: 2006-11-06 08:12 am (UTC)