title: The Dressage Rider's Survival Guide: Memoirs of a Struggling Dressage Rider
author:  Margaret A. Odgers 
description: Margaret Odgers is a working wife and mom with three kids, three horses, on a tight budget with a sincere and somewhat pathetic (she says) desire to become a good dressage rider.
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  Chapter 1
  
  For two whole weeks everything that happened in the Maynard household revolved
  around one fact: Felicity was coming home. The twins had had new muslin
  dresses for the occasion, made by the village seamstress, not in the newest
  mode, they feared, when they saw that the copy of the Belle Assemblee out of
  which they had taken the design was more than a year old. But still, the
  dresses were new, one in primrose, the other in pink because no one, not even
  Papa in his more absentminded moods, could tell them apart if they wore
  identical clothing. Felicity would see them at their best and they would
  convince her of their advanced age and sophistication.
  
  During those two weeks Mr. Maynard spent less time than usual in his office,
  poring over the estate books, and more out in the stables seeing that the
  horses were well-groomed, and in the fields seeing that the crops were all
  planted and the cows and sheep 