I have five sons, each born about two years apart. I went from changing diapers to toilet training to changing diapers to toilet training to buying jockey shorts and then athletic supporters. My boys went from weighing a collective thirty-nine pounds at birth to now weighing over half a ton and each having become a professional athlete! Did I have any idea that I was raising five future athletes? Of course not. I have driven or flown hundreds of thousands of miles over the last thirty-plus years to ice rinks, baseball diamonds, football fields, and basketball courts, to mention a few. Besides athletes, they are now entertainers, fathers, entrepreneurs, role models, and familiar faces on TV. I dedicated 24/7/365 to raise my "boys" to be hard workers, and good citizens. Outnumbered is a book about some of the events in my sons' lives as told by me, the only female on the team. I never would have dreamed that I would have the life that I had while raising these incredible athletes.
Having lived a life most could not dream about, let alone see in the movies, Diane Underwood devised a plan for her own rehabilitation. This is something she's wanted to do forever. As Diane would say, "It's better late than never." Crackin' Up took her over two years to complete. A lot of folks didn't want this book to be completed, and Lord knows everything that could go wrong, did. The original manuscript disappeared; the second one was mistakenly deleted! Next, her computer was compromised; someone changed her username and password, her email accounts were broken into, and her phone was cloned. Crackin' Up is a refreshingly funny, sad, and enlightening story of the trials and tribulations of one female who made it despite long odds.. Take a journey into her heart, her mind, and her world. It will be a ride you won't forget or regret.
The name is Charlene not Claudine!" is an intriguing novel about how the author's personal life ironically shadows the throw back 1970's movie "Claudine", which Dianah Carrol was nominated for the Academy. This book includes balancing single parenting and dating problems and solutions along with something just having to be left the way they are. Overall, the book is fun to read and will let the readers know they are not alone in the problems they may be experiencing. It can be shared from pre-teens to adults.
I have five sons, each born about two years apart. I went from changing diapers to toilet training to changing diapers to toilet training to buying jockey shorts and then athletic supporters. My boys went from weighing a collective thirty-nine pounds at birth to now weighing over half a ton and each having become a professional athlete! Did I have any idea that I was raising five future athletes? Of course not. I have driven or flown hundreds of thousands of miles over the last thirty-plus years to ice rinks, baseball diamonds, football fields, and basketball courts, to mention a few. Besides athletes, they are now entertainers, fathers, entrepreneurs, role models, and familiar faces on TV. I dedicated 24/7/365 to raise my "boys" to be hard workers, and good citizens. Outnumbered is a book about some of the events in my sons' lives as told by me, the only female on the team. I never would have dreamed that I would have the life that I had while raising these incredible athletes.
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