In her backyard, wet, muddy, and with a dying pigeon at her feet, the author's story begins. Kelly Frederick Mizer's collection of daily journal entries cover one summer of seemingly trivial events that popluate the day-to-day routine of raising three children: bedtime, doctors, grandparents, haircuts, bodily functions, lawn parties, rummage sales, school plays, to name a few. Exact in detail and honest in their telling, Frederick Mizer's daily entries arc and list, explore and accept. Her engaging narrative results in a wonderful, meaningful story of parenthood and childhood, remembrance, and self discovery.