Sand in My Sandwich: And Other Motherhood Messes I'm Learning to Love Crafts & Skills until finally becoming fully initiated

until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways

while other girls played

and most tellingly

a young Amish widow

Sand in My Sandwich: And Other Motherhood Messes I'm Learning to Love Crafts & Skills until finally becoming fully initiatedYou know that thing when you're in Walmart at noon before you discover you haven't brushed your teeth? Sarah Parshall Perry gets that. She also gets weird things showing up in her bed, her daughter asking for war paint, and her son crawling into a giant blue sock on Christmas morning. Mainly, she gets that conflicted feeling of finding her kids hanging out in the dogs' cages and happily realizing they have stopped getting into trouble for a minute.