Ever After : life lessons learned in my castle of chaos / Vicki Courtney

By:

Courtney Vicki [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: United States of America : B & H Publishing Group, c2013Description: x, 221 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9780805449877

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HQ 734 .C68 2013

Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 House Sweet Home -- Chapter 2 Prince Charming Letdown -- Chapter 3 P-31 Flunkie -- Chapter 4 Save the Date -- Chapter 5 Unmet Sexpectations -- Chapter 6 Duty or Desire? -- Chapter 7 Repeat after Me: NO -- Chapter 8 Quitting the Family Busyness --Chapter 9 Water with Lemon -- Chapter 10 School Daze -- Chapter 11 Circle the Bandwagons -- Chapter 12 Merry Christmas from the Stepford Family -- Chapter 13 Hold on Loosely -- Chapter 14 I Love Me, I Love Me Not -- Chapter 15 Fine Whines: Aged to Perfection -- Chapter 16 Happily-Ever-After.

Summary: "Most women dream about having a family and a building a home. We grow up on a steady diet of fairy-tales and chick flicks that drive our dreams... and leave us with a sugarcoated version of reality. We want it all: the prince, the kiss, the proposal, the ring, the castle, and eventually, the kids in smocked rompers playing cheerfully on the perfectly manicured lawn. Our hopes and dreams are pinned on the world’s version of happily-ever-after. The problem is, the fairy-tales and chick flicks end where real life begins. We never see that follow-up scene where the prince and princess argue at 3 a.m. over who will get up with the colicky newborn. Or the princess reluctantly returns to work to help pay the bills and feels the stress of juggling work and family. And you certainly won’t see that part where the princess moves her last child into the dorm and realizes the bulk of her identity has been based on being a mother. The truth is, marriage and motherhood are hard. Few of us are prepared to handle the balancing act of being a good wife and a good mother, without one or the other getting the short end of the stick. No matter how much we give or how hard we try, we never quite feel like it’s enough. And heaven help us, we always imagine every one else is doing a much better job. In Ever After, best-selling author Vicki Courtney addresses the realities of marriage and motherhood, the difficulties and the blessings. It offers women a behind the scenes glimpse of what a fairy-tale really looks like on the average day for the average wife and mom. Poignant, funny, and even cathartic, Vicki shares mistakes made, lessons learned, and memories to keep. Most of all, she reflects the hope and promise that God meets us in the middle wherever we are in the journe, and that He alone is the answer to the happily-ever-after we long for."

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"Most women dream about having a family and a building a home. We grow up on a steady diet of fairy-tales and chick flicks that drive our dreams... and leave us with a sugarcoated version of reality. We want it all: the prince, the kiss, the proposal, the ring, the castle, and eventually, the kids in smocked rompers playing cheerfully on the perfectly manicured lawn. Our hopes and dreams are pinned on the world’s version of happily-ever-after.

The problem is, the fairy-tales and chick flicks end where real life begins. We never see that follow-up scene where the prince and princess argue at 3 a.m. over who will get up with the colicky newborn. Or the princess reluctantly returns to work to help pay the bills and feels the stress of juggling work and family. And you certainly won’t see that part where the princess moves her last child into the dorm and realizes the bulk of her identity has been based on being a mother.

The truth is, marriage and motherhood are hard. Few of us are prepared to handle the balancing act of being a good wife and a good mother, without one or the other getting the short end of the stick. No matter how much we give or how hard we try, we never quite feel like it’s enough. And heaven help us, we always imagine every one else is doing a much better job.

In Ever After, best-selling author Vicki Courtney addresses the realities of marriage and motherhood, the difficulties and the blessings. It offers women a behind the scenes glimpse of what a fairy-tale really looks like on the average day for the average wife and mom. Poignant, funny, and even cathartic, Vicki shares mistakes made, lessons learned, and memories to keep. Most of all, she reflects the hope and promise that God meets us in the middle wherever we are in the journe, and that He alone is the answer to the happily-ever-after we long for."

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