Pamela Faith

It’s currently 30 degrees outside and 31 degrees in my house, nah I’m just kidding about the temperature indoors. We have our central heat and air set on 74 degrees. We also have a small electric heater sitting right next to me. My sweetie and I are a stones throw from having a battle about the electricity bill. I’m prepared to turn off the satellite tv, the water, the garbage pickup, and live on pinto beans and fried potatoes. However, my sweetie doesn’t like my offer on saving money so that we can feel like we’re sitting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Can you believe he expects the kids and I to wear clothes? What’s the point of homeschooling and working from home if you can’t sit around in your night clothes all day?

Random Thoughts:

+ It’s sad that I’m holding my laptop in my lap just to stay warm.

+ Why do my socks keep twisting sideways and I have to stop what I’m doing and reposition them? I can’t stand walking and feeling the seam bump under my toes.

+ How can I love dogs and cats, but can’t stand for them to be on me or in my house? I love to pet the animals, but I don’t like the smell of animals. The dog next door (one of the many) I would like to tie his mouth shut. I’m so tired of the mutt chewing up and dragging stuff into my yard. That stupid dog makes us look like hoarders (I swear it’s not our garbage.). We have lost every pair of goggles we’ve ever bought for our pool because of this little devil.

+ I’m still missing some television shows that have been canceled. (me shedding tears) – Flashpoint, Eleventh Hour, Still Standing, Yes Dear, King of Queens, Rodney, Invasion, Jericho, and Close To Home – just to name a few. And no I don’t watch that much television.

+ It’s not fair that after giving birth you still have to experience pain. After carrying them for 10 months and squeezing the little people through your precious parts and losing your body physique, women should have a break. The back ache is something horrible. Every day it’s like waking up from a car wreck.

+ Cheers to my sweetie for helping me with my wifely and motherly duties, even though I try to avoid helping him with our business.

I met Rayna and Daniel in this book. Right off the bat I liked Rayna even though I found her situation quite depressing. To be honest, Daniel didn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, he was also a sad person for different reasons. Rayna was having a hard time at the beginning of the story because her husband had just died and she discovered that he had borrowed quite a bit of money that she couldn’t pay back. Daniel came in on a white horse (not really a white one) and rescued her and her two boys from having to be homeless.

If this story had taken place during the past couple of decades, Rayna could have just applied for government assistance and wouldn’t have had to marry Daniel to save her home. But as the story took place before cars and the internet, she had to do what she had to do.

I somewhat wished that I hadn’t came across this book. I prefer something on the happier side. From beginning to end, this book is definitely a Lifetime Movie in the making. The author, Jillian Hart, did a good job with the story and the characters. If you want a book to touch your heart strings – read this book. Be prepared to feel slightly depressed during the reading of the book though. This could also be a fact that I read the book in the last few weeks of my pregnancy and under the influence of raging hormones.

This is one of the books that I’ve read this year. I thought it was an alright book. I usually like a book that isn’t so easy to figure out. I pretty much knew what was going to happen before it did. Here is what the back of the book says…

Samantha Brady’s to-do list is simple…

Sell her novel, have a baby and find the man of her dreams – though not necessarily in that order. Trouble is, she has writer’s block, hasn’t had a date in months and lives platonically with her best friend, Jack Turner, the only man who has ever met her Prince Charming criteria.

She and Jack have always avoided romantic entanglements of any kind, especially with each other. No strings. No fuss. No heartaches. Until one night too much wine and too few inhibitions takes their friendship to a whole new level.

Sam’s to-do list-and her life – are turned completely upside down. She’s realized she wouldn’t mind a “string” or two – but is she too late to keep her perfect guy from walking out the door?

1. The Lion King
2. The Incredibles
3. The Jungle Book
4. Ice Age
5. Brother Bear
6. The Land Before Time
7. Cinderella
8. Tarzan
9. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
10. Frosty the Snowman

1. Bon Jovi
2. Tom Petty
3. Reba McEntire
4. Sheryl Crow
5. Chris Daughtry
6. Trisha Yearwood
7. Train
8. 3 Doors Down
9. Jimmy Buffett
10. The Dixie Chicks

I sang this to my daughter, Sarah, when she was a little baby.

Sunshine and butterflies make my day much brighter.
Looking at the blue skies,
smelling the flowers.
Sunshine and butterflies make my day much brighter.

Running through the grass,
chasing butterflies is my favorite thing to do!
Sunshine and butterflies make my day much brighter.
Nothing compares to the colors
of sunshine and butterflies.

Sunshine and butterflies make my day much brighter!
Sunshine and butterflies make my day much brighter!
Sunshine and butterflies make my day much brighter!

I sang this to my son, Andy, when he was a baby.

Lay your head down on a pillow.
Close your eyes and go to sleep.
Let us dream of a place for you and me,
Where the skies are always blue
and the waters are always clean.
Let us think of all the happy times
that we have shared.
Go to sleep little baby.
Go to sleep little baby.
Go to sleep, your momma loves you so much!

1. Ever After
2. Pretty Woman
3. Dirty Dancing
4. Independence Day
5. Tristan & Isolde
6. Twilight
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. The Count of Monte Cristo
9. Twister
10. A Walk to Remember

1. Julia Roberts
2. Patric Swayze
3. George Clooney
4. Drew Barrymore
5. Denzel Washington
6. Richard Gere
7. Tom Cruise
8. Julia Stiles
9. Tom Hanks
10. Will Smith