How Mom Got a Life

For eighteen years, Kate Martin has been a sheltered housewife and mother. Suddenly she finds herself divorced and out on a limb. A lot of role reversal goes on as her three kids watch their usually calm, collected mother turn into a quivering mass of insecurities while coming to terms with her new role of single parent. In many ways, Kate has a lot more growing up to do than her kids.

Her financial security is gone, the house is falling apart, and her eldest son is ready for college. Applying for jobs, Kate finds that technology has passed her by. Typewriters are out, computers are in, and she doesn’t have a clue. Kate is driving her kids crazy. How, they wonder, can they get their mother to believe in herself? Mary, her smart-mouth daughter resorts to sarcasm, “Did you kick butt or did they kick yours?” she wants to know after Kate’s first day on the job. The look on her mother’s face says it all.

Slowly Kate comes around to their point of view. Realizing she can’t change the world, she sets about reinventing herself. The kids look on in dismay as she goes from vamp to Edwardian Miss to Yogi, all without success. In desperation Kate turns to books and discovers the power of the mind. Her modus operandi becomes, “You get what you think about!” a premise the kids laugh right out of the water until, in a move that shocks even herself, Kate makes her point. In one unforgettable afternoon, she proves both to herself and her kids that by believing in yourself and your dreams, you will, indeed, get what you think about.