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The Package Deal: My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom
In short order, Izzy finds herself saying I DO to becoming a wife and “instant mom” to Hank’s two sons and packing her bags for a new life in Austin, Texas. There, Izzy struggles to hold on to a bit of her professional identity while reinventing the stepmother role in her sassy, stylish, but also loving and vulnerable way. Honest and daring, The Package Deal is a toast to the richness of her new life and a tribute to any woman whose ever fallen in love and then asked, What exactly did I get myself into?
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This is for the sisterhood of stepmothers....
By Susan Davis-swanson "The StepFamily Center" - June 7, 2009Izzy Rose has written a delightful book: The Package Deal about her journey from independent career woman to taking on an instant family with two teenage boys! The role she finds herself in is peppered with "Rules" she is learning along the way and some great recipes for coping - check out Gram's Rum Cake. Izzy combines warmth, humor and the hopes and dreams of most women who decide to take on this challenge for the man they love. From the time she makes her decision to move across the country, away from career, family and friends for love, you are in the struggle with her. The Rules that evolve along the way are rules so many in steplife learn, and usually the hard way: Rule #10: Surrender your expectations; Rule #12: When the Kids have a "tude, suck it up and don't take it personally; Rule #16: Compromise but don't sacrifice yourself. Wisdom she is gaining as she moves through the process.
Hank and Izzy's relationship is what stands out though because with a good... read more
The Hilarious, Brilliant, Awful Truth: The Package Deal
By Wednesday Martin - July 29, 2009Attention everyone who has ever told a woman with stepkids, "You just need a sense of humor." Calling all those who presume that the whole problem for those of us having problems with stepkinder is that we just don't know how to laugh it off. Clearly you've never met Izzy Rose or read her book, The Package Deal.
It's not easy to make stepmothering funny, because the difficulties can be so, well, aggravating, consuming, unremitting, and un-funny. Particularly in the first year or so, as the woman with stepkids endures everything from insults to her cooking from kids in a loyalty bind to the insult of stepfamily architecture in which she is the stuck outsider to all the persistent cultural dumbthink about stepmothering ("You'll get back whatever you give"; "All you need are good intentions," "Just love them and they'll come around," etc).
In spite of all she's (and all stepmothers are) up against, Rose pulls of the seemingly impossible: she writes about the... read more
A must buy for stepmoms!
By A. Howieson - October 16, 2009This book is a must buy for single gals entering true love with more than one person as a stepmom. I am a single girl who has fallen for a fantastic man with 3 kids and an ex who is unbearable and this book put it all in perspective - andgave me hope it will work with humour! When you feel alone this book will let you know you are amongst millions in the same boat. Also check out the website [...]
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