My Whac-A-Mole Life: August 2012   

GIVEAWAY: Easy to Love but Hard to Raise

It's my first blog giveaway, and I feel oddly powerful. I'm giving away a shiny, new copy of  Easy to Love but Hard to Raise. Read more about the book and its origins here: Guest Post: Easy to Love but Hard to Raise.

This giveaway is open beginning RIGHT NOW through August 22nd, morning-ish.

I'm glad to share this meaningful book with one of my readers. I won't call you lucky, because if you need this book...well, you might feel slightly less so. So how can you win? Well, I'm thinking that if you're anything like me, you're busy enough filling out paperwork, shuttling to therapy, and just trying to keep it all together. The last thing I want to do is to make your life harder. Or my life harder. I mean, what in the world is a Rafflecopter anyway?

Guest Post: Easy to Love but Hard to Raise

Editor's Note: When I was asked if I'd be interested in participating in a Book Blog Tour for Easy to Love but Hard to Raise, here's what zipped through my multi-tasking brain:
  • That is the most perfect book title. Do I get a free book?
  • Wow, they found me. And they think I have readers and influence. Hahahahahah
  • They can't make me like it. Will they want the free book back if I slam it? But with a title like that, I can't possibly NOT like it...
  • I think we're out of milk.
So, yes, not only did I get a free book, but they also are graciously allowing me to send one to you too! (Here's how you can win. Now, about that milk.) Even better, it turns out, I had nothing to worry about. I love this book just as much as the title. See, like many parents, when my children were first diagnosed with whatever, I scoured the Interwebs, the library and Amazon.com, pouring over every related title I could find. Next stage, I avoided every related title I could find. I finally understood why my husband wouldn't watch any formulaic, special needs, feel-good films with me: "I live this every day. I don't need to watch someone else living it too."