Product Description

“Oh, my word, I’m living this.”

Dear friend,

If you and I are new to each other, let me start here: This is not how this was supposed to go! In the portrait I had long ago painted of my family, I didn’t intend to include words like “widowed single mom.” I had envisioned many more decades with my husband Robb in the complicated, beautiful life of marriage. But in the course of twelve hours, our family of four became a trio, and since that day my boys and I have been creating a new life in an upside-down world.

I have written this new book, which in a lot of ways is a sequel to And Life Comes Back, to answer the question so many have asked: “And then what happened—after the crisis became reality and your life began again?” I’ve leaned into honest storytelling to offer a look into the chaos and beauty of who we have become.

I’ll be honest, this book was harder to write because I’m living it right now—I hardly feel like an expert who has figured it out. I hope my straight-up-honest stories will give you encouragement to take the next step. And the next. And the next.

Sometimes, you just have to pretend you know what you’re doing, pretend you’re brave enough, and pretend you can do this. Sometimes you just have to pretend you’re normal until the new normal finds you.

See you in the pages,

Tricia

From The Author

When Tricia Lott Williford's thirty-five-year-old husband died suddenly after a misdiagnosed twelve-hour illness, she awakened to an upside-down world that she didn't recognize, and yet it seemed to belong to her. Her two young sons were fatherless and a little too fearless, and she needed to learn to live a different life than the one she'd planned the day before. She began to live by a few simple rules: Stay calm, step up, don't put anyone at risk, do your best to live to tell about it, and whenever you can, try to pretend you're normal. Tricia's story is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of the emotional hazards of living a full life with a heart that is still healing. She tells her story straight up, with humor and honesty, about how fiercely she loves her children in the mundane and extraordinary craziness of their upturned lives. Let's Pretend We're Normal is for anyone who has been surprised by the tenacity of love, the vulnerability of children, and the ferocity of their own strength.

About The Author

Tricia Lott Williford’s great loves are teaching, writing, and her two young sons, Tucker and Tyler. When Tricia suddenly found herself a thirty-one-year-old widow with two preschoolers to raise on her own, the blog she had been writing for several years became her lifeline and her readership grew dramatically and went worldwide, resulting in her first book, And Life Comes Back. She and her sons live in Colorado.

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ WaterBrook (May 5, 2015)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.13 x 0.59 x 7.99 inches