This was a thoroughly enjoyable "mom lit" and my first venture with this author. I had some trepidation about reading a celeb author (path to publication?), but I think this book stands on its own merits. I really liked the plot lines with the parents' decline (due to carbon monoxide poisoning) and the daughter's custody concerns. I thought the bullying storyline needed a better resolution than "it seems to have stopped." Perhaps that is being saved for another book. Overall, a good read.

A fun and funny read featuring the continuing adventures of the characters many readers have gotten to know through the previous two "Class Mom" novels. I would recommend this to readers who enjoy the Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic books.

Writing: 4/5 Characters: 4/5 Plot: 4/5

Always hysterical, this is the third in Gelman’s “Class Mom” series. Jennifer Dixon is the ever-wry, always-irreverent class mom for her 5th grade son’s class in Overland Park, Kansas. This year she gets coerced into leading the biggest fundraiser ever (she calls her team the “We Fundraise Until Kingdom Come Team” or WeFUKCT); gets startlingly accurate messages from her friend’s crazy mother-in-law (or rather her two ever-present spirit guides); fights off a surprising custody battle; and deals with what appears to be the simultaneous rapid decline of both parents who see “little people” in the basement. This is a comedy, so OF COURSE everything works out just fine and with plenty of laughs on the way.

This is number three in the series — it can certainly be read on its own but why not start with number one (Class Mom) and/or number two (You’ve Been Volunteered) while you’re waiting for Yoga Pant’s July release?

Just a few fun lines — I should have highlighted more but I was too busy laughing:
“Yes, I’m hilarious. In fact, these past two years have been a yuck a minute as I have endeavored to understand Viv’s unique parenting style that can best be described as a cross between Mary Poppins and the surgeon general.”

“Ah yes, “that baby” — also known as the light of my life and the bane of my existence, all rolled into one perfect almost-two-year-old package.”

“In my mind I wonder just how far this PC thing is going to go before we all just give up talking.”

An excellent third book in the series. Hopefully not the end but if it is a fitting end! Laurie Gelman writes with a wit and an eye for the modern family.