The Comical Side of Parenting

By Annette Hazlett

Welcome to the crazy, busy, humorous life of a mother of 6 that takes you through some of the challenges of parenting. This heartwarming story will keep you laughing as you walk down memory lane with a mom who thought parenting was going to be a piece of cake.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Annette Hazlett
• Release date: Mar 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311943316

Annette Hazlett

Annette is a mother of 6 and a grandmother of 12. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and still has 3 children at home. She enjoys reading, gardening and fishing. In the summer in her spare time she likes to go to the beach and go jet-skiing.

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The Comical Side of Parenting

Copyright 2015 Annette Hazlett

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My husband has been after me for years to write a book instead of reading as much as I do, but I never knew what to write about.

Most of the books I have read have been novels in which authors have thoroughly researched everything, so that the places and events seem actual to the reader. Well.. I don’t have time to do that because you see I have children. The wonderful wacky life of being a wife and mother of six. So this book is about that. Kids are great. They keep you young and crazy and sane and insane. And I wouldn’t change any of it for the world.

I dedicate this book to my husband and children, who without their crazy antics over the years, this book would have never come to be.

So here we go.

Chapter One

So, you find out you’re going to have a baby, OH NO. OH MY. This is terrific. This is crazy. I’m not ready to be somebody’s mother. I’ll be a great parent, I’m going to do things so much differently than my mother did. My child will grow up to be a great success. Do I want to bring a child into this world? This is forever. I’ll have someone else to be totally responsible for. OH YES. OH NO. Just a few of the thousands of things that run through your head when you first hear the news. And then things calm down a little it and the excitement sets in. You start to plan. You start to shop and shop, and continue to shop for the next seven months! You buy baby blankets. You buy baby clothes. You buy diapers, a crib, etc. etc. etc. And then in about your eighth month of pregnancy, reality sets in along with the swollen ankles and aching back, and you decide that you’ve changed your mind. You really don’t want to do this after all. You’re scared to death. But GUESS WHAT?? Too Late!! Too late to change your mind now!

You talk to friends and family and they try to calm your fears, telling you it’s all a beautiful natural process of life. They tell you what a great parent you’ll be. You think, it can’t be so bad. People keep having babies don’t they? Or they start to tell you all the horror stories of their own deliveries or somebody else’s deliveries that they know, that you’ve never even heard of these people or could care less about. People mean well but sometimes it’s just better not to say anything at all.

Then the big day finally arrives, and you’re afraid, and you’re so excited that you can’t stand it. Hopefully you’re not in the middle of a mall if your water decides to break, but is so, you just nonchalantly walk, or I should say waddle to your car. As fast as possible. You rush to the hospital because this is your first child and you really don’t know how long this process takes. You’ll find all that out later. Besides that, it’s the only chance your husband gets to run red lights and drive like a maniac. It seems like he hits every bump on the road on the way. It seems like it took forever but was really only a few minutes. You rush in to the admitting