"Diary of a Mother" author Christine Louise Hohlbaum champions the stay-at-home parent movement with her second book, "SAHM I Am: Tales of a Stay-at-Home Mom in Europe". As a spokesperson for parental empowerment, Christine offers her readers a renewed look at raising children through the eyes of an American expat in Germany. How different is it to bring up kids in a foreign country? From peculiar store hours to getting milk at midnight, Christine Hohlbaum’s hilarious look at life with children in a Bavarian cow town will leave you laughing and crying for more.
I have been living in Germany since 2003. Living in the countryside, with few distractions (aside from two 'vivid' children who keep me on my toes), I have found an organic balance between work and life. In fact, they mesh so nicely I can barely tell the difference. Well, sometimes.
I became a published author quite by accident. It happened one day while at the doctor's office. The short of it is I began to see humor in the uncontrollable, such as toddlers having to pee right as you're completely unclothed at the dermatologist's. It got me to thinking about how therapeutic writing is. The more I wrote, the more engaged I became as a participant-observer in life.
Writing serves not only to communicate, but also to transform. If I can change one person's mood, thoughts or feelings with my words, I have done my job. Writing to me is the singularly most gratifying work in the world.
