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| Downstairs the Queen is Knitting A Mother's candid (and sometimes funny) observations about life at top-speed with six kids growing up | View shopping basket | |
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Dorcas Smucker Set paperback, $26.85 Save 10%! All three of Dorcas Smucker's book about life with her family on an Oregon grass seed farm. Titles include Ordinary Days, Upstair the Peasants are Revolting, and Downstairs the Queen is Knitting. | Add... | |
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Downstairs the Queen is Knitting paperback, 150 pages, $9.95 | Add... | |
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Related Items Autobiography | Downstairs the Queen is Knitting follows Dorcas' two earlier and beloved collection. The kids are a bit older now, and Dorcas and Paul's marriage is longer and deeper. But Dorcas sees with more disarming clarity than ever, and she write piercingly about life on and off the grass farm as the kids move toward more independence. The details of Dorcas' life with her kids are funny and tender and exasperating enough, but it's her own confessions as a mother, her self-observation and guile-free humor that draw you to hear her writing. Copyright 2009 Good Books | |
| Upstairs the Peasants are Revolting: More Family Life in a Farmhouse | View shopping basket | |
| by Dorcas Smucker | ||
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Dorcas Smucker Set paperback, $26.85 Save 10%! All three of Dorcas Smucker's book about life with her family on an Oregon grass seed farm. Titles include Ordinary Days, Upstair the Peasants are Revolting, and Downstairs the Queen is Knitting. | Add... | |
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Upstairs the Peasants are Revolting paperback, 176 pages, $9.95 | Add... | |
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Related Items Autobiography | Get ready for another rollicking reading ride--when you can't tell if the tears you suddenly find on your cheeks are from laughing or from crying. Dorcas Smucker once again writes so vividly about life with her six kids that you'll be convinced you have a place at their table, your own seat in their van, a list of chores with your name at the top, and a small hankering for trouble--just like one of the family. She and her kids are innocently funny and usually well-meaning, trying hard to manage all their energy and their peculiar points of view. What makes this collecton a stand-out is Dorcas' "Mother voice." With each new development, she's clear about the outcome she's hoping for, less certain about how she'll accomplish it, willing to confess the way things unfolded. Dorcas Smucker is bravely honest and hilariously humble. She never fails to give courage to any parent who reads these joyride chapters, while relentlessly entertaining. Copyright 2007 Good Books | |
| Ordinary Days: Family Life in a Farmhouse | View shopping basket | |
| by Dorcas Smucker | ||
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Dorcas Smucker Set paperback, $26.85 Save 10%! All three of Dorcas Smucker's book about life with her family on an Oregon grass seed farm. Titles include Ordinary Days, Upstair the Peasants are Revolting, and Downstairs the Queen is Knitting. | Add... | |
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Ordinary Days paperback, 196 pages, $9.95 | Add... | |
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Related Items Autobiography | Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today.
That'll test any mama's strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live
out their days in full view in their collection of musings—picking
blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving off the
nearby freeway, moving into the "thousand-story house," enduring 15
year-old Matt's lecture on respect while captive in the car. Then
there was the four week road trip, which Dorcas says, "My sister-in-law
warned me would be like putting your whole family in the bathroom and
staying there for three days." Dorcas and her husband, Paul, are purposeful parents. But they aren't perfect. Dorcas wonders if their marriage can endure when she and Paul can't ever figure out what gifts to give each other. She tries to navigate her mild daughter's development into a very certain self, wondering, "When do I give in, and when do I stand firm?" There are no recipes here. But there is story upon story. Dorcas has three daughters and three sons. And she has a voice—encouraging, doubting, entertaining, but never taking herself too seriously. Copyright 2006 Good Books | |
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