Good Read:

The Tenth Circle--Jodi Picoult

Another really good book! I decided this time to include the insert from the flap, if you like what you read from it than go get the book. =0)

"Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life--a straight A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence...and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family--and herself--seems to be a lie.

For fifteen years, Daniel Stone has been an even-tempered, mild-mannered man: a stay-at-home dad to Trixie and a husband who has put his own career as a comic book artist behind that of his wife, Laura, who teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college. But year ago, he was completely different: growing up as the only white boy in an Eskimo village, he was teased mercilessly for the color of his skin. He learned to fight back: stealing, drinking, robbing , and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself, channeling his rage onto the page and burying his past completely...until now. Could the young boy who once mad Trixie's face fill with light when he came to the door have been the one to end her childhood forever? She say that he is, and that is all it take to make Daniel, a man with a history he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back in order to protect his duaghter.

The Tenth Circle looks at that delicate moment when a child learns that her parents don't know all of the answers and when being a good parent means letting go of your child. It asks whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime or if your mistakes are carried forever--if life is--as in any good comic book, a struggle to control good and evil, or if good and evil control you. "

I love this page by my MIL Linda!


I actually did some scrapping the other night too!

Good Read

I just finished reading When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin through a book club at TSR. This is a great book! Very touching and inspiring. Definetly worth checking out!

My whine for the day
Ok, so I know that I'm ONLY 32 years old and I shouldn't be complaing about this but it's all about work. I'm tired of work, burnt out and just don't want to go on a good day. I know, I've got 40 years to look forward to granted God blesses me with that much time on the earth. I find myself giving a day away frequently these days knowing that we can't really afford it but with the way economy and everything else is these days I have a bad attitude of does it really matter? Until school is over for Johnny we are still going to have to be creative paying bills and things like that. I'm really ready for him to be done with school, I don't know who is looking forward to it more, him or me! LOL. We new it was going to be hard when he started but I think I under estimated how hard it would be. I just keep praying that in the end it will all be worth it!

Weather
What's up with the chilly weather? We went from 90's to 60's the last few days. I'm sure I will be wanting this break in a few weeks when its miserably hot again!

Thanks for the hat Nanna and Pappa Richmond!
Maddie loves the hat she got from Alaska!

Happy Father's Day!!! Dad, Bri, Dad Richmond, hope you all had a great day!!!

Book Review:
I just finished reading "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult. I don't want to give anything away but all I can say is what a great read this was! I guess my easiest summary without spoiling anything is that this book is about what could happen when a child is bullied all of his life. That really doesn't even give it justice. If you have the chance to get this book I give it 2 thumbs up!

Poor Reese:
Reese has been in the puppy hospital this week. At the end of last week we noticed with petting her one day that one of her ears was about 5 times too big. At the time we thought that she got bit by something but she was really hurting. Poor pup would walk with her ear towards the ground as if it weighed a ton. If she even shook her head she yelped. So we took her to the vet..could it be as simple as a bug bite? Of course not! She had a hematoma that was the whole size of her ear flap. They said it is caused by ear infections and that if we didn't get it taken care of it would burst and she would bleed everywhere. Ok..so it has to get fixed. So they kept her, had to lance the hematoma, discovered that she had horrible ear infections in both of her ears, in the ear that had the hematoma the ear drum bursted and there is no telling what the long term effects will be, all we know at this point is that the damage is irreversible. She ended up having to stay over a 2nd night because she was in so much pain, coming home with pain meds, antibiotic for the ear infection, cream for the ear infection, you name it. Right now the biggest thing is keeping the dressing on, she was fine with it yesterday but today she has it a little shredded and at one point had the sore ear out of the dressing. Eek! I gave her another pain pill thinking that is why she is messing with it. The problem with Reese is that she doesn't complain, her temperment is so mild you just don't know when something is wrong. Even the vet said with her temperment its hard to pick up on things until they get to the point they did this time. Here's poor Reese: