Is your house cleaner before your kids help you clean it? Do you clandestinely de-clutter and hide items in thrift-store-bound garbage bags? Do you find the title "Fun Run" to be an oxymoron? Does your overeager garden planning result in summers spent doorbell-ditching zucchini? If any of these scenarios hits home for you, you're not alone. In this humorous collection of essays, readers are invited to find the comedy in the common and to look at life with a laugh. Here's the unvarnished truth: there is no such thing as a perfect wife, perfect children, or a perfect household. So lighten up and learn to love the perfect craziness of family life! In Lighten Up and Laugh, cheeky humor columnist Kari J. Rich delights with a hilarious and heartwarming look at life on the mommy track.