alinemarinelli

Fun read! Once Upon a Thanksgiving is the first in a 3 book series. It is a delight to read and I am looking forward to the rest of them. In this series, 3 single parents missed the first PTA meeting and were "volunteered" for social planning committee. They will be heads of Thanksgiving play, Christmas fair, and Valenteine's day. Samantha our first mother takes on Thanksgiving since she has a third grader which is the grade that does the actual play. Other grades just do some singing. But poor Samantha already has so much on her plate. She is busy with trying to finish her nursing degree, raising 3 boys and 1 girl without much help from her ex, work, how in the world can she handle one more thing? Well the answer is with the help of the other 2 suckers who got stuck on the committee. Samantha soon comes to cherish the meetings with the ladies, never realising how much she needed their friendship before. They definitely helped her keep sane and filled a big gap in her life. While Sam is going through the process of redefining herself, she relies on her friendship to guide her and things are going great until her sons get her called to the principal office yet again. She knows they are acting out because of the pain of her divorce but can she convince the new principal of this? Last year, the principal only wanted to punish her boys rather than try to help. So when she meets the new Principal and discovers she knew him when they were both kids and that he was willing to work with her boys and finding a way to help them, she was surprised. Not only by him but by her reaction to him. She so wasn't ready for those type of feelings! Fortunately, neither was he since he was just coming off from a bad break-up. They both decide friendship is best. How long that lasts? You'll have to read the book because I'm not telling. hehehehe Overall, I loved the book, really connected with the characters and their lives. I loved the humor that Holly Jacobs writes with and I also loved the changes she put Sam through. I felt like Sam was a close, personal friend and I was right there with her as she found herself and thrived. Great book, highly recommend, can't wait to read the rest of the series.

2023-01-05 14:09