{"id":332,"date":"2021-07-24T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariamshaperatales.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2022-08-20T06:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T06:54:25","slug":"a-party-whats-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariamshaperatales.com\/a-party-whats-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A party? What’s a party?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So my book is finally released now on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and the feeling is out of this world. This is one of the happiest moments of my life! Like a milestone, a BIG milestone! I have wanted to do this for the past couple of decades and now felt like a perfect time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think for me, two good things came out of the pandemic- this book of course, and…… a greater appreciation for the career known as teaching or more specifically TEACHERS! Before I forget whilst writing these blogs, I have to say it at least once. THANK YOU, TEACHERS! Thank you for all that you do for our children. I have had to learn to be soooo patient when teaching especially my eldest even though she was not in kindergarten quite yet, I knew she had the capability to go beyond and we had a mini home school during the pandemic times. Even for my four-year-old Joseph (who the story is based on) I got quite a bit of teaching done using my self-taught Google searched teaching skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, enough digressing. So as the pandemic eased, my husband and I decided to have a small book launch party 2 weeks ago. Wow! A party! Now when was the last time I went to one of those ??? So we decided to have it at home, nice and intimate. Decorations, food (including a book cover decorated cake!), and entertainment were decided on (Entertainment being my book reading to the kids- which they all surprisingly managed to sit through the whole book, and ‘releasing 10 balloons’ up into the sky- which was my husband’s wonderfully cute idea). I will never forget Joseph’s eyes as he looked at the balloons turn into dots in the dist<\/span>ant evening sky. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, throughout the whole party, I managed to keep my cool surprisingly well but of course, felt like a 6-year-old having her princess-themed birthday party and eating candy all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for reading! Keep on imagining and never give up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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