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This weeks question: What’s your favorite Thanksgiving Day food? If you’re not American or Canadian, what is your favorite holiday food?
Stuffing! I used to hate it when I was little, but now, I can’t get enough. Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
~Pam
I am thankful
Although it’s not really easy
and I don’t really have the time
but I appreciate so many of you
that I tried to make this rhyme.
For my husband who is my other half
he lets me sleep in on the weekend
buys me a snack every night
and kills spiders early in the am.
For my kids, one who just fell and broke his arm
but he doesn’t complain and is a joy
and a big help to his twin brothers
I try to remember that when I feel annoyed.
To my mom who’s fighting cancer
and struggling with a lot
but she’s my best friend so she’ll win
let’s not give stupid cancer another thought.
To my dad
who knows how to fix anything around
for being so strong for my mom and family
for smiling when he probably wants to frown.
For my brother who is a punk
just kidding he’s pretty neat
he’ll drop what he’s doing if you need help
in the time of a single heartbeat.
For Ally, Shannon, Katie,
Kelly, and Michael,
thanks for being my friend
even if I’m sometimes a handful.
For my in laws and cousins
and uncles and aunts
And anyone I forgot
I’m writing this quick, you still count!
So while your eating your turkey
I hope you stop and remember
that someone is thinking of you
on this Thursday in November.
Love you all. Happy Thanksgiving.
~Pam
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This weeks question: Tag, you’re it! We’re playing #FF tag this week. Comment on as many blogs as you can, even if they aren’t participating in #FF. Just say Happy #FF! at the end of your comment. Keep a running total if you want and update your post with it. The bigger the number the more impressed we will be!
Ok, so I guess……..tag! You’re it! 🙂
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Title: Burning Embers
Author: Hannah Fielding
Published: 2012 by Omnific Publishing
Genre: Romance
Click here to buy Burning Embers from Amazon.com
Burning Embers takes place in Africa in the 1970’s. The story starts out with Coral, mid-twenties, at sea on her way to Africa. She is escaping an engagement gone bad, and visiting her family home where she grew up. Coral meets a mysterious French man on ship, and then keeps running into him. His name is Rafe, and she is warned by many that he is a playboy; a womanizer. The warnings aren’t enough to keep Coral away, however, but should she have listened?
Coral wasn’t my favorite. I just didn’t connect with her. Some of her reactions just didn’t seem right. For instance, she ran into her ex-fiancé after a few months and she didn’t feel any emotion. That just doesn’t make sense. I understand that he wasn’t the right guy for her, she probably didn’t’ love him like she thought she did, but I still felt like she should have felt something, you know?
The story was told from Coral’s point of view, but one or two times it was told from Rafe’s. I felt like it wasn’t really necessary and kind of ruined the flow, especially since it was only his point of view one or two times.
Overall though, it was a good book. I read it in a few days, and for the most part it kept me interested. That’s why I am giving it 3 out of 5 stars.
My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
~Pam
*****I received this book free from the author in exchange for an honest review.*****
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Title: Mommy Couldn’t Find Her Eyelashes
Author: Mary Jane Fizer
Publisher: iUniverse
Genre: Biography/Memoir
Pages: 110
Purchase at iUniverse
No one knows how unpredictable first graders can be better than a first-grade teacher. In Mommy Couldn’t Find Her Eyelashes, retired elementary educator Mary Jane Fizer shares excerpts from written papers and some of her favorite amusing and poignant conversations with her first-grade students, providing an unforgettable glimpse into the innocent, often uncensored minds and imaginations of children.
Fizer relies on more than forty years of experience in a classroom environment to offer a diverse compilation of funny sayings and heartfelt moments she experienced with her students. From the student who said he wanted to be both the President of the United States and a forklift operator to the boy who announced that he needed to see the nurse because he thought he had head lights, Fizer recalls the unpredictable moments of every day she spent in front of a classroom serving not only as a teacher, but also as a role model, stand-in mother, and a source of information who had to somehow find a creative answer to every creative question.
Mommy Couldn’t Find Her Eyelashes is a delightful collection of quotes from children that encourages all of us to find the pure happiness in every day—even when we are all grown up.
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