Tomato Soup & Milk: A Memoir

At twenty-three, Christa Wilson Jackson stood in a grocery store checkout line with two young boys, a roll of dimes, and only the necessities in her cart-milk for bottles, tomato soup, and cereal. She couldn't see the life waiting for her beyond that moment.Tomato Soup & Milk is a deeply personal memoir about family, motherhood, hardship, resilience, and the ordinary moments that shape a life. From open-heart surgery at fourteen and the parents whose love formed her foundation, to raising four children, becoming a nurse, finding lasting love, and eventually becoming Mimi, Christa shares the memories that carried her through some of life's most difficult chapters.Woven throughout are the small things we often don't realize we'll remember forever: penny loafers, a bottle of Cinnabar, a yellow Chevrolet, snowballs and Subway, a baby's blue blankie, hospital monitors, a roll of dimes, family recipes, laughter, and words spoken by the people we love that stay with us long after the moment has passed.Warm, candid, sometimes heartbreaking, and often funny, Tomato Soup & Milk is ultimately a story about continuing forward when you cannot yet see where the road is leading-and discovering that some of the hardest chapters of our lives are not the end of the story