Don’t Wait Up: Confessions of a Stay-at-Work Mom Audiobook (Free)

“The parenting genre is under no circumstances going to be the same” (Jancee Dunn, writer of How Never to Hate Your Spouse After Having Kids) with this candid and hilarious assortment of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Women and The King of Queens, who swears she loves her kids—when she’s not hiding from their website.

Some women feel that motherhood is a calling and their purpose on earth. They somehow manage to make pregnancy look effortless, bring out the about Don’t Wait Up: Confessions of the Stay-at-Work Mother beauty within a screaming child, and keep the back chair of their cars as spotless as their kitchens.

And then there’s women like Liz Astrof—who originally had children because “everyone else was.”

With this blunt and side-splittingly funny book of essays, Liz Astrof embraces the realities of motherhood (and womanhood) that no one ever discusses: like having to hide from your kids inside your closet, your car, or a yoga class on the other hand of town, letting them eat candy for dinner because you just can’t deal, towards the sheer terror of failing them or at least shedding them in a mall. And sometimes, many times, wondering if the whole parenting point wasn’t for you personally.

Perfect for followers of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and I Heart My Small A-Holes, Don’t Wait around Up is an soul-baring and honest look at parenting and interactions for mothers who recognize that motherhood doesn’t need to be your entire life—just an amazing part of it.