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Wonderful take on things.

I told you I’d be back for a proper review, and here I am!  I just had to point out some of my favorite lines from this story, kaat. Yet now here he is, on Web MD in the kitchen, with Cece serving up plastic food on the tiled floor at his feet.  I don’t know why, but I love that image—all sweet domesticity.  Just like this—Her chubby red-toned cheeks losing a little more baby fat every day. He's going to miss the perfect way she fits into the space between his chest and shoulder.  So achingly sweet. The girl's got snot from both nostrils all the way to her lips. Ha! What a visual! You insert just the right amount of realism. She cradled the phone for fifteen minutes, wrote all sorts of scribbles on a piece of paper, ate two chocolate Pudding Snacks and then promptly passed out.  Ah, Pam—just like Michael with the pot pie :D “Well, I am completely starving. What do you say we put this monkey in her cage and have a cereal party?”  Oh, that is just adorable—so perfectly Halpert. Knocked-up Pam is one of his favorite Pams of all time. Especially when the kid inside her is his.   I think of that moment in Niagara on the boat after they were married by the ship’s captain.  All Jim’s dreams were coming true.  How surreal and lovely.  “You're way too tense,” she says, and comes to stand behind his shoulders. He can feel her blouse-covered belly brushing against his arm. “Want me to help you relax?”He looks up at her with a jolt. “Do you actually want to?”“Not, sex, Jim, obviously,” she snorts. “How about a bath?”  Love it!  I can perfectly picture that little exchange :D I never worry about these two because they seem to have such a bond.  You’ve highlighted that here.  Well done, kid ;)

Glad to see you back, kaat! This was really sweet, very in-character all around. I like how you capitalized Worry like the Thing that it is. For some reason I really enjoyed the detail about him looking at bills and noting that the water bill was $30 more this month. Very... real and basic.

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Oh wow. THis is just seriously so lovely. You paint such a wonderful picture of domestic bliss, just the way I imagine the Halpert home to be. I REALLY like how you handled the topic of Pam continuing to just want Jim to admit that Kathy is attractive. Honestly, it seems like I was the only one but I kept thinking when watching the show, she KNOWS you aren't blind and appreciate attractive women because before Jim and Pam, the women he dated were very attractive. Therefore I felt like him continuing to act like he couldn't see that she was attractive was not only a bit insulting and patronizing to Pam but also it would tend to backfire and give her the very doubts he wants to avoid. Doubts he could put to rest by answering like he did here, okay, she is but you have her beat 100,000 times over. Or, sure, she's okay but really, you're the ONLY one I have any attraction to. I actually had this type of a problem with my ow husband at the end of my last pregnancy just over 11 yrs ago. There were two young girls who worked for him (he's a resaurant manager) and they were constantly buying him stuff, STUPID stuff but stuff. We would go to eat and they would hang out at our table and want to HUG him before we left. There was just all sort of stuff like that. At that time he had just lost quite a bit of weight and was looking good. I'm sure having these cute young things hanging all around him and hanging onto his every word stroked his ego pretty nicely. I kept saying things about knowing that the one had a thing for him and he was absolutely adamant that it wasn't true. The more he denied it, the more upset and suspisious I got and where I normally would have dropped it, we would have probably laughed over it, I just ended up a mess, not knowing what was going on and why he would deny something so obvious. In the end, right after I had our sweet princess, he did admit that he could see it but this was after the pair, who I barely knew, showed up at the hospital when I had the baby. They had found out something my husband had kept a secret and that is that he was being transfered when he came back from his week and a half off with me and the baby. Well, the girls who he insisted didn't like him saw him in the parking deck and confronted him and were sobbing. @@ Then he retuened to work just days before his birthday and went to the new rest. On his birthday they showed up (like 45 mins. away) with a balloon bouquet and present and stuff from inside jokes, a cake and a few raw steaks, expensive ones, so the chef in the kitchen could cook them and they could have his birthday dinner with him. That's when he finally admitted to me that yeah, he's been pretty sure for some time that the one girl liked him. I was SO relieved to hear him just freaking say iy already.

The thing with Jim and Pam is, Pam knows in her heart that she is in fact the only one for Jim. Look at all he went through to be able to finally say she was his. That included dumping a girl that he seemed to be on a path to some real serious stuff in their future. A girl that many (I'm not included in this group) found to be much more attractive and really driven. Some may have felt she was good for Jim because she drove him to be someone else, someone better.... someone that simply wasn't him. I would hope that by waiting out the Roy years and then turning back and giving things with Pam a go soon after she finally let him know that this was what she wanted, that should have and I think in fact did seal it for Pam. She knew that all Jim ever wanted was just her.

I think you summed things up so beautifully here

"There are plenty of hot women in the world. Hell, he admitted to liking Helen Mirren. But he could care less about them all, because there is no one better than his wife with her full mouth and quirky smile when she knows he's annoyed and messy bed hair and that damn beautiful overflowing belly."

Just a wonderful way of putting it and I think it's really very true to the way Jim would think about Pam. I really do think she probably drives him a little crazy with how gorgeous he finds her when the life the two of them created together is existing inside of her. Something for a long time he never dared to dream could happen.

I just, I really and truly love the way you handled this entire thing. So much like I would have like to have had it play out. I love your writing. You have a lot of talent and I really appreciate you taking the time to share that talent with us! I cannot wait until your next story!

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Oh, kaat, my darling! You've made me so happy with this. I promise to give you a proper review when I have access to a proper computer. I will say though in the meantime that you get bonus points for referencing Goodnight Moon