The last of my hurt-my-ankle-stuck-at-home reads was Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.  It was pretty darn funny.  I mean, sometimes I’d laugh out loud at really inappropriate times (ie. in the waiting room of the ortho).  I loved that Bernadette was bright and quirky and left her job to be a stay at home mom.  Her shenanigans and train-of-conscious emails with her Indian virtual assistant were too much.  And I may or may not have thought of some of the ladies at school as “gnats” while reading this (shhh…don’t tell).  All in all, it was cute, light and entertaining.

Goodreads says:
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette’s intensifying allergy to Seattle—and people in general—has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.  To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence—creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world.
 
So, let me know what’s on your bedside and in your beach bag!!  I’m hitting the library this week with the littles.
xoxo

PS. We survived the first swim meet.  Thanks for all of your helpful hints!!