A special treat for you!

It's been a long and cold winter. You would think with all of the time off I've had, that I would be able to get a lot done on the computer, but as my poor blog shows, that is not the case.

Between cleaning the house and keeping my four kids entertained, I've been busy and I will admit a little stir crazy!

BUT- if I had had a fabulous book to read, I might not have been so bored. With the library being closed, I couldn't get one.

Winter isn't over. We have two more months of this snow and bitterly cold air and I know you are going to be stuck in side with nothing to do. Can't get to a library or a book store? Well then, I am going to bring it to you!!!

That's right! I am hosting TWO WEEKS OF ROMANCE here! From February 1-14th, you can come here and meet more than one author each day. They will will tell you about a new release or a series they have and they are giving away prizes! That's right....

LOT'S OF AUTHORS..... LOT'S OF BOOKS... LOT'S OF PRIZES!

All you have to do is come here each day. Leave a message with your email address. The next day, I will pick a winner. If I have two authors, there are two winners. If I have three authors, there are three winners. See how it works! To see if you win, you have to go back to that day and look in the comment box! You will then have 48 hours to contact me or I will have to choose another winner and I would hate to do that.

So... I'm so excited, can't you tell!!!

Be here on Feb. 1st to start the two week give away! Tell your friends. Blast it on Facebook! Tweet about it. We want everyone to know! See ya soon!

Oh-. who will be here you ask. Well, I can't give you every name, I want it to be a surprise, but how about Cynthia Owens, Dawn Chartier, and Veronica Wolff for starters?

Quote

"It's one thing to write about Happily Ever After, it's something entirely different to be living it. I am so lucky to be doing both!"

Sarah Hoss

Poems

Love's Coming

by Shaw Neilson

Quietly as rosebuds
Talk to thin air,
Love came so lightly
I knew not he was there.
Quietly as lovers
Creep at the middle noon,
Softly as players tremble
In the tears of a tune;

Quietly as lilies
Their faint vows declare,
Came the shy pilgrim:
I knew not he was there.

Quietly as tears fall
On a warm sin,
Softly as griefs call
In a violin;

Without hail or tempest,
Blue sword or flame,
Love came so lightly
I knew not that he came.

Love poems by Robert Burns

I was looking through things to write about and I came across this site, Heart of Scotland. In it, I found love poems by Robert Burns. I know I should save this for the end of January when everyone celebrates Robert Burns Night, but they are just too good to store away. I hope you like them as much as I do.


MY LUVE
O my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my luve is like the melodie,
That's sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.



JEAN
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw,
I dearly like the west,
For there the bonie lassie lives,
The lassie I lo've best:
There's wild woods grow, and rivers row,
And mony a hill between;
But day and night my fancy's flight
Is ever wi' my Jean.

I see her in the dewy flowers,
I see her sweet and fair:
I hear her in the tunefu' birds,
I hear her charm the air:
There's not a bonie flower that springs
By fountain, shaw, or green,
There's not a bonie bird that sings,
But minds me o' my Jean.


O WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST
O wert thou in the cauld blast,
On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
My plaidie to the aingry airt,
I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.
Or did misfortune's bitter storms
Around thee blaw, around thee blaw,
The bield* should be my bosom,
To share it a', to share it a'.

Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
The desert were a Paradise,
If thou wert there, if thou wert there;
Or were I monarch o' the globe,
Wi' thee to reign, wi' thee to reign,
The brightest jewel in my crown
Wad be my queen, wad be my queen!

*bield- shelter or protection

LOVE FOR LOVE
Ithers seek they ken na what,
Features, carriage, and a' that;
Gie me love in her I court,
Love to love makes a' the sport.

Let love sparkle in her e'e;
Let her lo'e nae man but me;
That's the tocher-gude* I prize,
There the luver's treasure lies.

*tocher-gude- marriage portion

My romance story

15 years ago, on a chilly November day, I stood outside the church waiting to be escorted in to the man of my dreams. Light snow started to fall on my bare shoulders and I shivered. Winter is my favorite season, so I smiled to myself thinking how fitting it was that the first snow of the season would fall on one of the happiest days of my life.

Today is our anniversary and I can't express to you how much I have enjoyed these years or how lucky I feel to be married to my husband. We met at a country bar and I truly believe in love at first sight. Boy, could he dance and I just loved that about him. I told my cousin one night, "That's the man I want to marry." Low and behold, it came true.

Through the years we have had our ups and downs, three beautiful children, and lived in two towns. But through it all, we have had each other and that is the most important thing. The hardest part, as I look back now, is the time he spent as an over the road trucker. The kids were small and having him gone all the time was rough. But I would do it all again.

So I want to honor my husband, my knight in shining armour that makes everyone else look like boys in tin foil, by having a contest. There is a poem that Andy recites to me. Here it is:

If the ocean were made of ink and the sky were made of paper, I could not begin to write how much I love you!

I would like for you to tell me where the poem came from. Where have you heard and seen it before? (CLUE, not in a book that I know of!) If you can correctly tell me where he got the poem, then you could win a $20 gift card to Blockbuster. That way you can rent a movie, have a little popcorn and snuggle with the man you love. Just a romantic night for two!

Good luck!

Happy Anniversary Andy! I love you!

Real life romance!

Romance......

It brings to mind many images in our heads. Everyone has a different idea of what it is and everyone experiences it in different ways. We all want to have it in our lives. I don't think life could function completely without a small dose of romance in it. At least I hope it couldn't. As they say, love makes the world go around.

I write about romance. I get to conjour in my head different forms of it in my books and I can tell you that I am having a lot of fun doing it! Sometimes I am making it all up and sometimes I am taking from real life. I hear stories from others, things that have happened in their lives. It can be something as common as receiving roses to couples getting a second chance.

When I was at work last week, I work at Subway, I had a couple come in and order their food. I was running the cash register at the time so I had a chance to talk with them. One conversation piece lead to another and I was told about how they had been married once before. When things didn't work out, they divorced and lived other lives, both remarrying and having families. The gentleman's second marriage didn't work and he started thinking about his life and what was missing and he realized it was his first wife. He still loved her and wanted to be with her again. She lived in Indiana and he was in Arizona. After doing a little research he found out that she too, was divorced. Since the man couldn't drive due to poor eye sight, he sold his belongings, got his bicycle and had a small trailer built to pull behind. He rode his bike up to Indiana and found his first wife. They have been together now for 10 years. I thought this was so romantic. To think that he loved her so much to go to those lengths to find her again.

My husband is very romantic. He holds the door for me, buys me daisies with three pink roses in them (one for each kid) for our anniversary, and will randomly send me a text message saying "I love you!" One year for my birthday, I woke up to find him having left for work already and on the kitchen counter was "Happy Birthday" written in tooth picks surrounded by butter knives. He always surprises me and I love him for it.

I want to hear from you. What is your idea of romance or tell me something someone did for you that was romantic and I hope your future is filled with romance from here on out!