Upside Over is a humorous look at family life.  How having children turned my whole world upside over, and discovering that babies don’t come with instruction manuals.  In motherhood I’ve found that someone has hidden the time clock and there is no relief shift coming in.  It takes a look at how you go from wife to mother, from husband to father and the changes that happen as you walk through this threshold to become a family.  It’s about surviving the parent game, and learning that with a sense of humor a family can survive and become stronger, through the laughter and tears, through good times and death, we grow, we bond, we take a step closer to insanity or maybe it just acceptance of what may be.  It reveals my coming to the understanding that for every time there is a season, and if we embrace life then we must learn to embrace death and learn to let go and say good bye.

It explores the monster under the bed ritual I had as a child, if I can laugh at myself, maybe the world can laugh with me as they relate to the subject matter and the incidents that are covered in these chapters. These are stories that are shared at our family gatherings.  We sit for hours and tell stories, laughing until we cry.  These are my stories, my family, and my memories and I hope that they will turn your world upside over too.