When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-chicken-nugget-buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never be - Rilegato

“Wilson’s got a light comic touch, but also traffics unflinchingly in the gross and the sad.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“When Did I Get Like This? is a funny, heartwarming account by [a] frazzled young mother of three. This book will help [new mothers] remember that the worst day with children is better than the best day without them.” (The Washington Post)

“Amy Wilson’s hilarious, tender memoir of all the ways her children drive her crazy--and she drives herself crazy--had me laughing out loud with recognition. She captures the small moments of motherhood in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking.” (Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project)

“An honest, personal, and often hilarious collection of short, beautifully written chapters. As entertaining as it is reassuring.” (Christie Mellor, author of The Three-Martini Playdate)

“Reading Amy Wilson’s book is like meeting your favorite new mom friend: She’s whip-smart, charming, enviably capable but as self-doubting as the rest of us, and very, very funny.” (Pamela Paul, author of Parenting, Inc.)

“Like Annie Hall wearing a nursing bra!” (New York Times (on the stage play))

Amy Wilson is the author and performer of the one-woman show Mother Load, which started off-Broadway, and has been touring the US ever since. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony-Award-winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and has appeared in dozens of other plays in New York City. On television, she was a series regular on Norm and Daddio, and appeared on Felicity, Ed, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Deadline, Boston Common, and All My Children. Her film credits include Kinsey, Kissing Jessica Stein, Keeping the Faith, and Ira and Abby. Her writing appears regularly in Babytalk magazine, on parenting.com, and on CNN.com's Living page. She is a contributing editor to Parenting magazine and she is interviewed frequently in the New York Times and on CNN for her mothering perspective. But her favorite productions are her three young children, whom she raises with her husband in New York City.