So.....It's Been Four Months

My last post was four months ago. Funny how life takes over. Much has happened, but what prompted this post after so many months was finishing a book in two days and feeling compelled to write about it.

After reading all but the final book in the wretched Twilight series, (my curiosity was peaked after they were read by practically everyone at the dance studio - young and old), it was refreshing to read something that my demographic could not only appreciate, but understand and process.

I devoured "Happens Every Day" by Isabel Gillies in two nights actually, as my husband slept soundly by my side. I could relate to her tale of her failed first marriage, unexpected and unimaginable, not because of the subject, but because many aspects of her relationship are found in many marriages, good and bad, surviving or floundering.

The moral of the story.....marriage takes work. It's a process and it is ever evolving. In the book, Isabel's world as she knew it changed in a heartbeat. Nothing could change it - not the perfect house or the kids or her job on Law & Order SVU.

The end of her story left me in tears, but not in sadness for her. While I felt her pain, I instead cried tears of joy for me and thanked the heavens above for my life.

Saying that this book put things into perspective for me is a true understatement, much more than 400 ridiculous pages of vampires and mortals professing eternal love.