Some Day You'll Thank Me for This: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a Perfect Mother

A hilarious guide to that incomparable creature -- the Southern mother. Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum good manners and the proper religion--ancestor worship--into the next generation. In Some Day You'll Thank Me for This, Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, bestselling authors of Being Dead Is No Excuse and Somebody's Going to Die If Lily Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet, deliver up a hilarious treatise--complete with appropriate recipes from those finicky, demanding moms--on the joys, trials, and tribulations of being the daughter of a Southern mother. Including sections such as A Crown in Heaven (a Southern mother's favorite fashion accessory), Grande Dames, Toasting the Southern Mother, and why grandmothers prefer their precious angel baby grandchildren to their own bad children, this is the perfect gift for any Southern mother -- or daughter of one.

Author: Charlotte Hays, Gayden Metcalfe
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 05/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.84w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9781401302962
ISBN10: 1401302963
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood
- Humor | Topic | Marriage & Family
- Cooking | Regional & Ethnic | American | Southern States

About the Author
Gayden Metcalfeis a native of Greenville, MS, where she has risen from holding several key offices in the Dirt Daubers, a preteen garden club, to executing various duties in the Greenville chapters of the Garden Club of America. She has served as the vice president of the Delta Council and publisher of Delta Wildlife magazine. She is married to Harley Metcalfe III and has two children. She is the author of three books.Charlotte Hays is a Delta native and former gossip column contributor at the Washington Times, New York Observer and New York Daily News. She lives in Washington, D.C.