Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me - Book Review

 Disclaimer: I received the following product(s) in exchange for my review. All opinions my own.
 
   “Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me” written by Ian Morgan Cron, is an amazing written story on the authors life, growing up with an alcoholic father and dealing with the ups and downs that comes with that. Ian was born into a family, who seemed to be well off. He had an English nanny, a loving mom, and siblings. Yet he struggled with his relationship with his dad, who put himself and his drinking before everyone else. He was never really there for him, never got that father son relationship he always dreamed for which lead Ian to search out different lifestyles. He tried to play the “bad boy” role, hoping it would get his dad to notice him…causing him to go downhill from there. He eventually realized the bad boy role didn’t work so he decided to switch it up to being the “good boy". He strived to be great at everything, but even in that, he realized nothing was working to get his father’s attention. All while finding out his father was in the CIA most of his life. Ian went through a lot of confusing times, trying to fill that void of having a pretty much, nonexistent father.

   There’s a lot of sadness in this book and it was hard for me to get in to at first, but I’m so glad I stuck it out and read the whole thing. Reading this brought back some sad memories of my dad who was also an alcoholic, but it also reminded me that God is and always will be helping me cope through my past too. I loved how Ian ended the book with talking about his own family. He, his wife, their two girls and their boy went swimming at the quarry, which had four different ledges to jump into the water from. Each ledge was higher than the one before; his daughters were both daring and bold like their mom, their son, more scarcely like his father-but he would jump if his dad was always there to catch him. The way Ian described their trips to the quarry and the fun they had…it was really touching. It made me so happy and brought tears to my eyes to read that Ian’s son is getting the love from a father that Ian never got.
 
This is a very touching book, once you get through the beginning. I am really glad that I read it. You can find Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me available for purchase on Amazon as well as other book selling locations.

I received this book through Booksneeze in exchange for my review. All opinions are my own.

Here, Home, Hope - Book Review

    I received the book "Here, Home, Hope" by Kaira Rouda, from One2One network in exchange for my review. I read this book in a total of three days, it was such a good read! Each time I began reading, I didn't want to put it down! 

    Here, Home, Hope is about a woman named Kelly who was pretty much beginning her mid life crisis. She was the mother of two teen boys who were off to camp, while she was meandering at home, trying to find a new way to improve her life. She had been a stay at home mom with no career, for the last 15 years and, though her boys were still living with her, she was finding that they weren't needing her as much as they did when they were little, making her feel not so worthy in life anymore. Her two best friends were high end business women that seemed to have their lives all together. So Kelly decided to take life into her own hands and make a change in herself. She began doing T2C ('things to change') sticky notes and hung them in places she looked at the most. She was beginning a whole new life change, in everything around her, including an anorexic teen, a reunion with an old high school friend, friendships and divorces, and so much more, she branched into quite a new life for herself, filled with encouragement and liveliness. Her doing this inspired me to begin doing my own T2C notes. I have areas in my life I would like to change and having a constant reminder on my wall, should help! I can feel relation to Kelly in this book, being that I am a stay at home mom, of a (almost) 4 year old, but beginning to see he doesn't need me like he use to, when he was a baby! lol. And there are areas in my life that seem similar to Kelly's..I just loved this book so much and found it a true inspiration to my life. I recommend this book for sure. It has been such an inspirational read!

You can check out Kaira Rouda's website HERE, and her FACEBOOK, and TWITTER.


My Review on Breve Coffee Creamer

I received a free package from Vocalpoint, which included a coupon, to purchase Breve coffee creamer. The flavor I chose was Vanilla Carmel Cream. It was so tasty and sweet! Made my coffee taste delicious and left me wanting more. I shared it with my mom, who is pretty much a coffee-aholic! lol. She enjoyed it also. It's creamy, and long lasting! I love that you can make other foods using the creamer, so you don't have to use it all for just coffee. Here's a list of recipes you can make using creamer! If you're a coffee drinker, I will definitely recommend this to you. They also have two other flavors: Dark Chocolate Cream and Hazelnut Cream. All so yummy.








This post is made possible by Vocalpoint, in providing me the products to review. All opinions my own. 



Fake Home Pregnancy Test

Do you ever just wanna play a trick on someone? My husband is hard to trick! I found a fake pregnancy test at the gift store and decided I'd get it to try and trick my hubby to thinking I was really pregnant! He knows how bad I would love another..and he just doesn't yet...so I tried to maybe mess with his head some haha...sad to say though, it didn't work..He first thought it was someone elses & they accidentally left it at our house lol...then he said "its just a gag gift!!" lol.. he looked worried for a small second..but he said he didn't think I was pregnant haha. Ah if only....
 


Look What I Won!

I won the cafemom limericks contest So I won a cafemom t shirt :)