Let me start by saying that I love Susan Mallery’s writing. I just finished the second book in her newest trilogy about a town called Fools Gold and it was a great read. I do a ton of reading and this book at the end brought tears to my eyes. It isn’t often that a book has that effect on me and this one did, there were several times that I laughed out loud and others that just about brought tears.
The book is about a single mom who gets an email from a niece that she never knew she had and picks up her son and heads to her hometown of Fools Gold. There is a history there that she really doesn’t want to relive but endures because she has to for her little family. Her sons father tends to be a self centered jerk but in the end actually seems to grow up.
Start with the first book in the series “Chasing Perfect” and move on to this one, it gives a bit of the back story on the town and why Ethan is considered the golden boy of Fools Gold and why the town people tend to be a bit protective. Even jerks can change their ways and do the right thing for love.
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I woke up this morning and made the long commute down the hallway to my office, the traffic was awful, 3 dogs in the way. I sat at my desk to check email to see what happened in the time that I was off in lala land dreaming of whatever it was I was dreaming of and about fell out of my chair! Why is it that your family can tell you something looks good and that you did a good job, yet it takes a complete stranger wanting to know if you sell the creations that you have made for you to think “Hey, maybe I can do this and people will like them”?
I learned to sew many years ago from my Mom and from a home ec teacher in Jr. High, I walked away from it for years and after letting my sewing machine collect dust, I finally dusted it off and have been happily sewing along again for the last little bit. My sister is the one that got me started on the purse/bag thing because she bought a panel that was to be made into a bag for my daughter for Christmas and I ended up making it. I have such a hard time finding a purse/bag that I will pay the money that the stores want for them, it’s a chore and I hate it. I usually carry a purse for years until it falls apart and I have no choice but to replace it. Now I have taken a pattern and changed it so much that it is now mine and seems to something that others are starting to like. I’m saying I have reinvented the wheel or anything, but it is something that is evolving and keeping me busy. If you read my blog called “Bags, Bags, Bags” you know what I am talking about.
Back to the purpose of todays blog, believing in yourself. I want to think that I can do this, I actually know I can do this, but I am so hard on myself that nothing seems done correctly and I will pick it apart until I am ready to throw it away. Take the diaper bag, cart cover, quilt and pacifier holders that I have made for a friend of Megan, I’m putting it in the mail to her and it’s killing me to do it, I don’t think that they are good enough for someone to use, never mind pay me for making. The seams aren’t all straight, I changed things on the pattern, that type of thing, I can spot the flaws and just know that everyone else can too.
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It’s not just the sewing, it’s the taking care of the family, cooking, cleaning and that stuff. Is anyone ever really satisfied? Am I just way too hard on myself? No one is perfect right? Why do we seem to think that we need to be when no one else is or can be? The eternal question every wife/mom/child asks themselves thru the years I suppose.
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