Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Wonderful, Wacky Family: 101 Loving Stories about Our Crazy, Quirky Families

by Amy Newmark

Overview

Is your family a little wacky? Do you have weird family traditions? Do you have a few quirky family members who you can't help but love? You’re not alone! This collection of 101 heartwarming, hilarious stories celebrates the fun of having those eccentric, unusual, loving famly members.


Everyone thinks their family is wacky—and they wouldn’t have it any other way. We’ve assembled 101 laugh-out-loud stories about bizarre traditions, eccentric relatives, peculiar holiday behavior, hysterically funny incidents, and more. You can’t make this stuff up!

Share the fun with your spouse, in-laws, parents, grandparents, chil- dren, siblings, aunts and uncles, cousins, and friends. You’ll enjoy these true, personal stories, divided into 12 chapters of good clean (and not so clean!) fun:

· Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh

· Relatively Embarrassing

· Happily Ever Laughter

· We’re All Nuts Here

· Dad Did What?

· Not So Grave

· Family Fun

· Grand & Great

· Mom Did What?

· In-Laws and Out-Laws

· Family Bonding

· Kids Will Be Kids

Chicken Soup for the Soul books are 100% made in the USA and each book includes stories from as diverse a group of writers as possible. Chicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611590975
Publisher:	Chicken Soup for the Soul
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Amy Newmark is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Table of Contents

1 Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh

1 Queen of the Cautionary Tale Joshua J. Mark 1

2 You're Ruining Your Divorce Robin Jankiewicz 4

3 Hot Pants Nell Musolf 8

4 A Cure for Practical Jokes Brenda Beattie 11

5 Sorry for the Inconvenience Barbara Wackerle Baker 13

6 Sleep Deprivation Marie Loper-Maxwell 18

7 Trying to Fit In Camille Regholec 20

8 The Fine Art of Curmudgeonry Sharon Boerbon Hanson 22

9 Please, Not Me! Barbara LoMonaco 24

2 Relatively Embarrassing

10 White Elephant Shenanigans Dani Michelle Stone 29

11 Aunt Vee's Hat Donna Anderson 33

12 My Zombie Sister Amy A. Mullis 35

13 Opera Night at the Movies Pamela Dunaj 38

14 Free Shipping Nan Rockey 40

15 Night Sounds Mary Hunt Webb 42

16 Christmas Ghosts Mary Beth Magee 44

17 Salty Mouth, Loving Heart Jack Byron 46

3 Happily Ever Laughter

18 A Sink Full of Dishes Renee Dubeau 50

19 That's Amore Eva Carter 52

20 Never Come Between a Man and His Underwear Toya Qualls-Barnette 55

21 The Lumpy, Bumpy Wedding Cake Michele Sprague 59

22 Bedside Blunder BB Brown 63

23 Grease Generously Linda O'Connell 65

24 In a Pickle Donna L. Roberts 68

25 The BU Tie Ellen Fannon 70

26 For Better or For Worse Marissa Mitchell 72

4 We're All Nuts Here

27 Pepper Roulette Gwen Cooper 76

28 That's Italian! Gina Farella-Howley 79

29 I'm Stuck Tia Marie Ruggiero 83

30 Psychic Baby Babs Barbara Espinosa Occhino 86

31 The Escape Artist John Scanlan 90

32 Breakfast with Raphael Katrin Babh 92

33 Buckets of Love Mary-Lane Kamberg 94

34 Ruffled Feathers Holly D. Yount 98

35 How to Catch a Tomato Thief Lori Zenker 102

5 Dad Did What?

36 Mom and the Lawn Tractor Butch Holcombe 106

37 The Criminal and The Accomplice Jeannie Rogers 110

38 Spinner Night Andy DeWitt 113

39 Picker Dad Sandra R. Nachlinger 116

40 The Day the Waterbed Wouldn't Die Deborah E. Martin 119

41 Fun with a Capital F Marci Seither 123

42 The Vacation That Never Was Peter Bona 126

43 Living in the Dark with Dad Teresa Murphy 130

44 My Kooky Father Kat Mincz 133

6 Not So Grave

45 I Wouldn't Be Caught Dead in That Blanche Carroll 137

46 Ashes, Ashes Roberta Beach Jacobson 140

47 The Last Laugh Tyann Sheldon Rouw 142

48 First Funeral Mary Beth Magee 145

49 Tea Mug Memorial Michael T. Powers 148

50 A Woman Never Tells Her Age Suzanne Alexander 152

51 Appreciation for My Skier-in-Law Nick Walker 154

7 Family Fun

52 Who's Fooling Whom? Cheryl-Anne Iacobellis 159

53 Life's a Game Laura Robinson 163

54 Kept Under Wraps Marianne Fosnow 167

55 The King of April Fools Jillian Pfennig 169

56 The Magical Age of Freedom Jenni Murphy 172

57 Winner, Winner, Chili Dinner Mary-Lane Kamberg 175

58 Freebird Karen Langley Martin 179

59 Family Reunion Crashers Lisa Aldridge 183

8 Grand & Great

60 Oh, That Brazilian Louise Butler 187

61 Ear Potatoes Gwen Cooper 190

62 A Sweet Bon Voyage Jill Keller 193

63 Loons Gwen Cooper 197

64 Under Where? Cate Bronson 199

65 One Step Beyond Frugal Dana D. Sterner 202

66 Sharing a Lap Dance with Grandma Katrina Paulson 205

67 Good Girls Get Ice Cream Nancy Emmick Panko 209

9 Mom Did What?

68 My Mother the Rabbit Annie Lisenby 212

69 A Most Embarrassing Story Stephen Hecht 216

70 What Mom Knew Sylvia Garza Holmes 219

71 Hot Dog Day Allison Stiefel 223

72 Moving In Lori Carol Maloy 225

73 Smacking Up the Family Car Susan Zwirn 228

74 Ernest Patricia Gable 230

75 Mom's ChapStick Rachel Remick 232

10 In-Laws and Out-Laws

76 Mary Quite Contrary Sydney Bayne 236

77 Concert Catastrophe Marina Bee 240

78 The Day the Bag Rang Pamela Kae Bender 242

79 Oops Connie Kaseweter Pullen 246

80 Frozen in Time Heather Rodin 249

81 Mother(s)-in-Law Connie L. Gunkel 252

82 Stuck P.A. Alaniz 256

83 Checkpoint Margaret V. Doran 259

84 Pickle Daze Amy Newmark 263

11 Family Bonding

85 I Hate You, Limburger Cheese Steven Stampone 267

86 My Family Tree Has Split Ends Joan Gelfand 271

87 Feeling the Love from Twenty-One Cousins Sky Khan 274

88 Mom the Magic Dragon Victoria Lorrekovich-Miller 277

89 The Box Darcy Daniels 280

90 Worst Gift Wins Lisa J. Radcliff 282

91 Cooking Lessons Wendy Jones 284

92 The Gift of a Towel Wendy Hobday Haugh 288

93 My Wife's Ex-Husband Grant Madden 291

12 Kids Will Be Kids

94 The Truck Shirt MJ Lemire 295

95 Underfoot Cindy Horgash 298

96 Greetings Billie Holladay Shelley 302

97 Out of the Mouths of Babes Barb Dalton 306

98 In a Bind Lisa McCaskill 309

99 Blueberry Pie Christine Gross 311

100 Seeing Red Marcia Wells 313

101 A Cup of Tea Kerry Pardue 315

Meet Our Contributors 317

Meet Amy Newmark 331

Thank You 333

About Chicken Soup for the Soul 334