Welcome back to the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Joy Pullman, the executive editor here,

and I am delighted to bring to the program today a Lila Lawler. She is the proprietist

of the blog, like mother, like daughter, and she is the author of a giant

compendium called the summa domestica that is supposed to be out on Pearl Harbor

Day December 7th here, hoping supply chain issues go well. So Lila, welcome to the program.

Thank you so much for having me. So I don't know if I mentioned this, you know,

my email trying to get you to come on the show, but you know, so I'm a mom I have,

as a reader, so I have six kids, the oldest is 11 years old. So while I've been basically

your blog has been my up all night nursing the baby, get me through this thing for many,

many, many years. So I'm a secret admirer of your work for moms and women. So I just want to hear

about your new book. I looked at, you know, the table of contents and the it looks like it has a

lot of it has come from your years of blogging that you've been writing about these issues. So go

ahead and just start talking about why you write things like, you know, how to keep a sick child warm,

how to nurse a baby, you know, decorations to put up for, you know, various holidays. What,

what do you, you know, why is the world calling for this book right now?

Well, so yes, the book is new in the sense that it's just coming out, but it's old in the sense

that it is really the compendium of everything I've been writing about for more than a decade.

And, you know, honestly, I started the blog, my, my daughter Rosie started it,

to kind of connect all of us, my granddaughters, and me and even my mother, to just, you know,

we like to do things like refinished furniture and go to the thrift store and so on. So we wanted

to sort of share those things with each other and felt like it would be fun if, I mean, at that time,

you know, people were starting blogs and you might be happy if you had, you know, 10 readers.

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