Some Day You'll Thank Me for This: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a "Perfect" Mother

A guide to the Southern mother, featuring recipes, from the authors of Being Dead Is No Excuse. Southern society centers on the matriarch, a figure more commanding than the Southern male. She carries a sacred mission: to instill good manners and proper religion—ancestor worship—in the next generation. In Some Day You'll Thank Me for This, Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays explore what it means to be the daughter of a Southern mother. The book includes sections on fashion, notable Southern women, tributes to Southern mothers, and why grandmothers often favor their grandchildren over their own children. It contains recipes from demanding Southern mothers and serves as a reference for understanding the joys, trials, and tribulations of Southern motherhood.