Everyday Ordinary: (Mostly) True Confessions of Marriage, Shoe Shopping and How I Keep Losing the Mother of the Year Award
by Kat GroshongPublish: Nov 14, 2018Biographies & Memoirs Book Overview
“So, my life, it’s different than I planned. It’s not saving lives in hospitals or flying through space or overturning rocks to expose social injustices or jetting off to romantic getaways, most of the time. It’s really a string of bad hair days spent in yoga pants, endless laundry and housework, cooking and cleaning, constant mediation between my-crazy-full-of-life-and-energy children, time-outs, homework, carpool, runny noses, doctors’ appointments, committee meetings, client phone calls, emails, texts, early mornings, late nights, all the while trying to get everyone to work, school, and church on time, fed and in clean clothes. It’s a balancing act of tremendous proportion, the attempt to maintain some semblance of sanity, piety, and well-being. Truthfully, most days are quite routine, quite ordinary…”
Life doesn’t always turn out as planned. It really doesn’t. From marrying a crazy-haired musician-turned pastor to packing school lunches, shopping for shoes, burning dinner, and cyberstalking her neighbor, author Kat Groshong shares how her plans were turned upside down and a little sideways from the plans of her youth. And even though her plans changed, God is always at work, in both the big moments and the seemingly small, insignificant moments, too. Through her whimsical and conversational confessions, Kat reveals there’s laughter, there’s beauty, inspiration and encouragement, meaning and significance in even the most ordinary life.