Date: October 22, 2022 07:24 pm Title: Chapter 1
I love this story! You have the language between Jim and Pam down well. I love that Pam said she called 'dibs' on being the first to hold Cece when they picked her up.
1 [Report This]Date: September 11, 2022 01:39 pm Title: Chapter 2
What a great ending line to a great story!
1 [Report This]Date: May 15, 2021 10:32 am Title: Chapter 2
This is a lovely picture of new parenthood and young love.
1 [Report This]Date: May 15, 2021 10:23 am Title: Chapter 1
This feels like a very real sense of what Pam might have been going through at this particular moment. I love getting this slice of their life outside the office.
10 [Report This]Date: April 30, 2010 10:32 pm Title: Chapter 2
Ahhhh I'm so sorry I've been slow on reviews and it's taken me until now to profess my love for this. But as always yanana, you write beautifully yet realistically with the emotion of the characters always seeping through to immerse the reader in the little world you've formed. And more than anything, you create a thoroughly entertaining and adorable fic that I can read over and over again. Thank you for all the things you choose to be. :)
10 [Report This]Date: April 29, 2010 07:13 am Title: Chapter 1
it's been awhile since i've reviewed a story, but i've got to take a minute and just...guh. i mean, i read it. then i read it again. and it just gets more and more perfect. it truly is one of the best. the rollercoaster of pam's wanting to be a good wife, but a good mom as well, and her struggle to find a balance was just right. i've never been through that myself, but friends of mine tell me it's real and i just think it was captured so well. thanks so much for sharing!
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 11:04 pm Title: Chapter 2
Okay, I admit - I just read the chapter and then went about writing you a review - before reading everyone else's. And man, are they right! I completely second what everyone else said, and I just wanted you to know that! This is truly a masterpiece. How do I get you one of those ribbon-y things???
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 08:52 pm Title: Chapter 2
My goodness, Yanana, you are incredible. You should know that by know. And that's all I feel like saying, because I hope it gets the point across. Wonderful story and I really hope you'll continue because this is just amazing. (Can I add that everything was so realistic I thought I was actually dreaming??? It might of been because I'm sort of falling asleep here, but this is really that good.)
P.S. - about halfway through this chapter you said 'china' instead of chin... you might want to fix that :)
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 08:21 pm Title: Chapter 2
heee, who doesn't love baby chin-munching? and cheek-munching... and nose. and toes. and fingers. and ears. babies are just good for nomming on.
Date: April 28, 2010 11:47 am Title: Chapter 2
hey, i normally dont review on this site, i just kinda read...and creep on your favorites to find the best story. but holy crap. this chapter was well deserving of a review.
i think this chapter was possibly the most well written piece of fiction on this site... the entire time i was thinking i was actually reading a novel, not some fanfiction involving characters that someone else made up. the emotions were tangible and i was completely along for the ride with pam. you gave these characters so much life... they felt genuine to me.
you are unbelievably talented. this was seriously one of the best chapters i've ever read. at first i thought it was just because i read it early in the morning before i left for my first class... but nope, i just reread it and... phenomenal.
i knew you were a talented author (as i've said, i've been creeping around this site for about 3 years now haha) but this chapter just simply blew me away. you did an amazing job and this has definitely inspired me to keep writing and try to improve.. i loved it!
Date: April 28, 2010 08:45 am Title: Chapter 1
P.S. Ha! I see Katie J and I were on the same page :D
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 08:41 am Title: Chapter 2
Kate, your work just keeps getting better. In the words of the great Michael Scott, this was emotionally magnificent. It was so real and heart-wrenching (with a side of sexy). I think you have beautifully captured a new mother's mindset. And Jim? Kill me dead, I love him so much in this. Tremendous job.
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 08:06 am Title: Chapter 2
I love this family. I am so glad you do not let even the littlest things in deleted scenes get by you.
Oh Pam, you did an excellent, wonderful and amazing job with her conflicting feelings about being a wife, a mother and a woman. How she is worried about being emotionally abusive to Jim, and a bad mom to Cecelia because she asked her husband to take her home before they pick up their baby. Poor Pam.
And how true that Google can be trouble so much of the time.
I love how Jim is a Band-Aid for her life. That was so super-sweet.
Keep writing please, everything you put out here is full of amazing-ness! Keep it up, thank you!
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 07:41 am Title: Chapter 2
Aw! This second chapter had me on an emotional roller coaster with Pam! The part where she's thinking of the 'emotional upkeep' that whole paragraph made me tear up, the way you described how Jim was with her during her pregnancy was just so touching. And I adore how excited they both got when Cecelia started smiling and making sounds that could be a laugh. Their love for each other and for Cece jumps off the page. You are so good at this, Yanana. You've got both of their characterizations completely on in everything you write, and this is no exception.
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 03:27 am Title: Chapter 2
Oh my. This? was just emotionally magnificent. I don't know what I was expecting in this second part, (because the signs were there) but I was not expecting that. Pam's insecurities about how Jim would feel about sex now, and how that affected how she felt, were just... perfect? can the word perfect be used in that context? The way Jim reassured her? That whole conversation was just, beautiful, and so bittersweet.
Oh, and: "And instead, we got excited about her and you're the only person in the entire world that I've ever done that with, so..."
Guh - Jim.
And then they have sex, and it is satisfying, and then they're all together as a family, and their baby is smiling at them and it was wonderful, because they're just this amazing little family, and she's somehow like this epitome of all this love they share, and, I'm gushing...
But, also? "Those legs belong in a desert" - LOL.
I really don't want to take anything away from the awesomeness but there is a point, in their beautiful conversation, where I'm hoping Jim should be scratching his 'chin' and not his 'china' because well, that's... distracting.
Awesome.
10 [Report This]Date: April 28, 2010 01:22 am Title: Chapter 2
I have been really excited to read part two - as soon as I was done with the first part. That was sooooo beautiful. I loved seeing them together as a family like that, but I really loved the way you wrote Pam. I can just SEE her reacting like that. It was just PERFECT!!!!!
Oh and ""Um," he scratches his china" < he has a china collection? ;)
10 [Report This]Date: April 27, 2010 11:30 pm Title: Chapter 2
I have been waiting for part two, this is awesome yanana. I love how you captured Pam's mixed feelings, then describing Jim as dad and all three of them as family. It's really adorable!!
10 [Report This]Date: April 25, 2010 09:47 pm Title: Chapter 1
This is totally what happened (initially typed "what went down," but I caught myself.. ahem). I loved the glimpse into Pam's thoughts and insecurities, as well as the little details like Jim's love for macaroni and cheese and hotdogs (adorable). You did a lovely job with this, as always, and I'm looking forward to part two.
Author's Response: Thanks so much, more_awake. :)
Date: April 25, 2010 09:35 pm Title: Chapter 1
It's been a few weeks since I've read or reviewed any fanfic...this was QUITE delightful my dear. I loved how totally in love Pam is, and I LOVE that Jim pays the phone bill -- talk about romance! I'm being facetious, but NOT. lol. Can't wait for the next installment!
Author's Response: Haha, hello again, lovefool! I've missed your reviews (and your stories, hint hint). Thanks for reading/reviewing, as always!
Date: April 25, 2010 10:51 am Title: Chapter 1
It's hot! Did Pam ever get into it or did she continually think of Jim as her husband/father of her child? Did she let her worry about how Jim saw her stop her from enjoying what they have together? Cannot wait for part two.
Author's Response: Part two should clear some of that up, I think. And then some. :) Thanks for the review! Hope you enjoy the conclusion.
Date: April 25, 2010 07:39 am Title: Chapter 1
I love how tentative you have Pam being as she tries to let Jim know what she wants. Seems both in character and realistic to the situation. I also really liked the little exchange with Erin.
Gotta run!
Author's Response: Thanks, Ann!
10 [Report This]Date: April 24, 2010 10:50 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh my god, Yanana, you are too good at this stuff. Absolutely perfect. I can't wait for chapter two!
Date: April 24, 2010 06:51 pm Title: Chapter 1
Thank you! I was another that was hoping someone would give us a story after Thursday's show. This one was perfect and I can't wait for more.
Author's Response: Hope you enjoy the second half. Thanks for reading and reviewing. :)
Date: April 24, 2010 05:54 pm Title: Chapter 1
Great accompaniment to the episode - You seem to get inside Pam's mind so well! Looking forward to the 2nd part!
Author's Response: Thank you!
Date: April 24, 2010 05:34 pm Title: Chapter 1
If you were here right now, Kate, you would see me doing my happy dance :D Awe. Some. For, like, the hundreth time, I find myself thinking, "How does she do it?!" I was just itching to read something like this. The fact that it's from you makes it even better! Pam's insecurity and her love for Jim are palpable and so perfect. I love that Jim's clueless at first that Pam wants him :D Lucky gal--getting to spend the day with her beloved hubby. It must make going back to work a little easier. Oh, and the shampoo? So funny. I'm just dying to read the rest!
Author's Response: Hey, Nancy! Thanks for the nice review. I hope you enjoy the second part. :)