Laughing at the Storms - Paperback
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Does being a mother sometimes feel like you've given up everything you are as a woman for your children?
You're not alone.
Persuaded to marry a much older man at seventeen, the author gives up her dreams of college and singing to concentrate on being a wife and a mother. To quell loneliness and frustration she writes about her six children and the crazy, often humorous, and tender life they live. Over thirty years later, when the last leaves for college, she writes the final story and dares to look back at the collection. What she sees is a lifetime of learning and passion and the quirky attitude that somehow helped them all survive. But is giving up on your dreams, to embrace your children's dreams, worth the sacrifice? It depends on what is left.
From teen mom to Executive Director and business owner, this story is designed to relate and inspire.
Roya D. Shihady, (Dee) is a humorist author, poet, photographer, artist, and avid reader. She recently retired as the owner and Executive Director of a national adoption agency.
Dee received her Associates in Business at the age of 37, with 6 children under the age of eighteen and her bachelor's in education a few years later, as a single parent. It's hard to say which was more difficult, the degrees or doing it with children in the home.
She has a boundless passion, writing or speaking, for educating adults on how to nurture the best in children and in bringing the family closer. She has been an instructor, voice teacher, a step-parent, foster parent and now grandmother of 10.
In 2015 she and her husband Mark became official ""empty-nesters"" and Dee started work on two more books. Recently they moved from Atlanta to a small town in Pennsylvania and do not miss the traffic at all.
Being part of the Sandwich Generation her mother is living in her garage apartment and her oldest daughter lives just down the street. She would be delighted to hear what you think of the book!
Author Contact
Email: writedee@homemail.com
Find more of her writing at https: //medium.com/@dshihady
Follow her on Twitter: @dzthingz
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