Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up (Confessions, 1)

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Yesterday i went out to lowbed a combine to my yard. I went into the house and she came out of the bathroom with a towel on her wet hair and a button-in-front house coat. The oldest of my six kids, Chloe, now 23, made me a grandma in 2018. Before that, becoming a grandmother hadn’t even been on my radar.

Her latest novel, Confessions of a Forty-something F##k Up, has now been turned into a tv series by Disney+ for ABC in the States, starring Gina Rodriguez as Nell. The show premieres on 8 February of this year. Join hosts Liz and Michelle redefining life over 50 as empty nesters, embracing the highs and lows of midlife with celebrity guests and experts, sharing a laugh on their podcast sofa. We Because Nell is determined. Next year things are going to be very different. It’s time to turn her life around. She did. Giving me a good look at her 70 year old body, then turned around and walked into the kitchen. In the summer of 2018, I was nearing 40 and my late-blooming career finally was heating up with reporting assignments that had me traveling about twice a month. I was finally amassing enough savings and disposable income to go on girls’ nights (with friends) and on girls’ trips (with my sister and daughters). The older women in my friend group had told me that nearing that 40 mark was when things started to come together. They were not lying.A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be. Her first novel, What’s New, Pussycat? was published in 2000, a week before her 30th birthday, and immediately made the top ten. It would take time for that grandma feeling to come, which didn’t bother me as much after I had Avery to cuddle and spoil. When I had him and my kids around, we just felt like family. The grandma feeling didn’t really come until Avery started calling me “Nana.” Well, he started as “Nah Nah,” probably a play on my name, which he heard from his dad and grandpa, and “mama,” which he heard his mom call me. By then, he was nearly a year old. I had found my role as grandma in just bonding and spending time with him and doing our own activities, which were not always things expected of grannies. She was a few steps up and leaned against the door frame. The light coming in from behind me did light up the place nicely and I could see side boob and curly hair.

I was looking at all these kinds of amazing lives, perfect lives, everybody was leading. And it looked nothing like the life I was leading.”Now a major TV series. Read the hilarious rom-com that inspired the hit new sitcom Not Dead Yet starring Gina Rogriguez ( Jane the Virgin), Hannah Simone ( New Girl) and Lauren Ash ( Superstore). As recommended on Davina McCall's Making the Cut podcast, and perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton, Ruth Jones and Marian Keyes.

I still hadn’t figured out my grandma role. Buying stuff was fun. Holding his chunky little 9-pound body was emotional because I had watched my daughter generate a new human. But I still didn’t feel like a grandma. What I did feel was attached to this tiny human made by my once-tiny human. That connection was clear. I just could not muster up that special connection that grandmothers are supposed to have with their grandkids. And, actually, I couldn’t tell you what that feeling was supposed to be like.

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Confessions of a Forty-Something by Alexandra Potter will make you laugh, and it might even make you cry. Above all, it will remind you that you're not on your own – we're all in this together. Imagine your best selling novel being transformed into a huge tv series in the USA. That's what happened to Alexandra Potter, author of Confessions of a Forty-Something F-Up! Her brilliantly funny inter-generational book was optioned by Disney and will premiere on Disney+ and ABC on 7 February (a month or two later in the UK) renamed 'Not Dead Yet'. Now a major TV series: Not Dead Yet , starring Gina Rogriguez ( Jane the Virgin ), Hannah Simone ( New Girl ) and Lauren Ash ( Superstore ). At a certain age, women start to become invisible, despite the fact they have so much to offer which is one reason Alexandra made sure she included older female characters in her novel.It does not matter if you are in Yorkshire, London, or LA all women have similar relatable experiences and feel the same about things.The way society works makes most people feel like failures when, in reality, they are not failing.It´s never too late and you are never too old to change and do what you want.BEST MOMENTS In the moment I asked her if she would do me a favor. She asked what and I asked her to open the front of the house coat.