Date: July 31, 2011 11:37 am Title: Home sweet home
So happy Ben made it home! I'm sad this one is almost over. Love Cece is this story!
Date: July 29, 2011 08:11 pm Title: Home sweet home
I'm already sad that this is almost over.. Jim talking to Pam's dad was amazing. Love all the little details you throw in too!
10 [Report This]Date: July 28, 2011 08:49 pm Title: Home sweet home
I am so happy that the Halpert family is all happy and healthy and at home. But I'll really miss the story once it's finished... I guess I'll have to reread it like I do all your other stories.
PS- I loved how Jim handled the tricky situation with his Father-in-Law. He managed to get a point across in a really sweet way. I adore the way he takes care of his family.
Date: July 28, 2011 07:53 pm Title: Home sweet home
So so many things I love about this chapter! Where to begin? The love that he has for his children and his wife just jumps off the screen throughout, especially when he's talking to Bill. I love how you incorporated that into this, and I love how Jim is able to tell it like it is to him in a way that's both calm and mature. I love that Jim can't even imagine what it's like to be in Bill's shoes and yet he won't judge. I love your Cece, she's so cute with her eyes not closing all the way. Kids say the most adorable things and you totally nailed it there. You've managed to make her exactly like both Jim and Pam. I'm really sad that there's one more chapter left, I was hoping you'd continue this longer, but I'm so glad everything with Ben is a-okay, and I can't wait to read your next story. :-)
10 [Report This]Date: July 28, 2011 11:48 am Title: Home sweet home
I have been following this story so first let me say I'm really sorry for not reviewing sooner.
This is truly amazing. This story has a feel of it being very real. I find myself feeling genuine concern and compassion about this very real, very difficult situation. I've found I've had to MANY time through this, remind myself that it's not real, simply a fictioal story.
I wasn't sure when the story began just how well I was going to enjoy the format of Jim writing letters to tell the story. Let me say, I have grown to really REALLY love it. It's a really unique way to give us so many of the details along with his feelings not just about his fears about Pam and the pregnancy and then his very real fears about Ben, but we also get his feelings about Cece and what she is going through and how this is affecting her. Along with that there are a lot of background details you have been able to share through the letters.
What to me though, makes this so SO special is the way that you are able to get across to us, the readers, that this is a man who is head over heals in love with his wife, his daughter and his son both before he was born and after. You get the feeling that there is nothing he wouldn't do for them. It's also clear that he falls in love anew with each of them on a regular basis.
This chapter was amazing in the way that you had Jim deal with the situation with his father in law. First just him knowing his wife well enough to see and feel her hurt, then in the way he cares enough to act. The way he handle the situation is so perfect. Him simply inviting his FIL along while he changes Ben, not being heavy handed, letting him look around the room and see Pam's work, see the pictures of a newly born struggling Ben and see what he is missing. I love that Jim remains quiet long enough for Bill to begin the dialoge but when he does, Jim is honest and straight with him, letting him know that he is really hurting Pam, then challenging him to stay through lunch. In all of this you kept it real. Bill stayed just through lunch, it wasn't like he had a huge change of heart and decided to make up for all the hurt that day and was the last one to leave. It was real, a man who has messed up and wants to make steps to make it right, but realistically is still the same flawed person so he makes a step but you can see it is going to take time.
Truly an amazing story and an incredible journey, that is really meaningful and very realistic, that you have taken us through.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Your writing is always very incredible!
Date: July 28, 2011 11:29 am Title: Home sweet home
Yay for Ben's homecoming! Such sweet descriptions of Cece, and I enjoyed Jim's heartfelt interaction with Bill. Happy that there's still another chap to come :)