Too Much On My Plate: Finding Grace, Laughter, and Sanity in the Middle of Everything

If your brain has forty-seven browser tabs open and one is playing music you can’t find, welcome. You’re in the right place. Somewhere between the laundry, the bills, the people you love, and the question “What’s for dinner?” you became the Department of Everything. Now your plate is overflowing—and someone is still adding mashed potatoes.

 In Too Much on My Plate, Julie Kapinos shares an honest, funny, faith-filled look at carrying more than one woman reasonably should. Drawing on life as a nurse, wife, mother, caregiver, and graduate student, she explores the invisible work of remembering everything, the exhaustion of caring deeply, and the difficult business of letting other people carry their own responsibilities.

Along the way, there are tactical Squishmallows, missing Tupperware lids, a household budget under interrogation, and a grandmother whose lighthouse sweater and banana cake offered more wisdom than any productivity planner.