Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

hi I hope u want to be my friends

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.