Sixteen Chickens on a Trampoline: Choosing Laughter from Chaos: A Family Report

Faye Lippitt is a journalist who found her inspiration in the happy chaos that enveloped their home as she and her husband raised their six children. The six arrived in eight years, sometimes arriving two by two, which made for interesting times.

This book is a series of snapshots of the family at their home in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. It is also about choices. As Faye puts it, when chaos rains, your response is your choice. Laugh? Cringe? Cry? Laughter feels a whole lot better.

It’s the author’s hope that busy parents will steal five minutes of the day to read one of the stories, and another five to write their own in the back pages of the book. For time flies, and memories fade and the things our children do and say are crazy enough and precious enough to keep forever.

Faye and her husband Greg now spend their time between Canada and the Caribbean and are blessed with enough grandchildren to keep the laughter coming.

© 2025 Austin Macauley Publishers (Audiobook): 9781035821112

Release date

Audiobook: January 30, 2025