Tandem by Tracey Bateman

I received this book to write a review

The first couple of chapters are confusing.  It changes from one person's point of view to another and then again to yet another.  But as I persevered and kept reading I realized that the 3 story lines were linked togather. The small town in the ozarks is rocked by murders and animal killings.  Its crime, passion, Daddy's little girls, and vampires all in one.  It is billed as a christian book however God is not the forefront of this book. I did like this book and will be trying to find the first book in this series "Thirsty".


 "I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review"

Long overdue update

December was a very hard month for us....First it was the first December without J.D. I've lost all my pics on my computer but they are recoverable just have to put the hard drive in another computer (thank you Jace).......then in a span of 8 hours my world fell apart......We have a new member to our family.....her name is Bella......She was 7mths old and as ornery as can be.......She is quarter horse mix.....the girl is bigger than Shadow......I will post pics of her later......She had never been off the farm where she was born, hardly ever been worked with.....She didn't have a halter on (she had had one at one time but they left it on her to long and she refused to have another one on) yep now she has one on....She also hadn't been lead rope trained......within several hours that friday night she was trained....but still not loaded in a trailer.......then my phone rang....it was my mom.......She had horrible news....My grandmother had been given 3-6 mths to live.....back in May she had been diagnosed with Lung cancer that we were told was slow growing and that could be treated with gamma knife radation and something else and it would be fine.....Well she couldn't shake a cough so mom finally got her to go to her pcp and this is what the pcp stated upon an xray.....(more to this story later)....I get home and called my little sister.....well she is my little sister by 6 mths, LOL.......Long story about how she is related but don't ask....she proceeds to tell me that my nephew Tyler is having a biospy done on a lymph node because it is severly swollen and they are suspecting lymphoma......(more to this story later as well, lol) and then I said forget it and went to bed at midnight.....A friend needed Kent's help and come by shortly thereafter and it was then discovered that stuff was missing off the patio......Mainly tools, the chainsaw that my brother gave to kent and about $300 worth of food, tp, and pt.....UGH.....And the propane tanks that go to my cookstove and my grill.........Now I'm pissed......The tools wouldn't be so bad but they took the food that I bought for my children......GGGGRRRR.....I had just been to sam's club.....now fast forward to tuesday......Tyler is having his biospy done...Come to find out he has "cat scratch fever" which is what the dr thought to begin with but the antibotics were not helping it.....Switched antibotics and cleaned out all the infection then I get a phone call later that evening that Tyler is fine but my sister's house burnt down.....No one is hurt, crap no one is even home....but still right before christmas......Then I also get a phone call from my mom about my grandma.....They took my grandma to the oncologist and the oncologist is mad because well the pcp didn't do the right test and should have never opened his mouth......His mouth overloaded his ass...(sorry guys for the french) but its the truth :d so the oncologist orders the PET scan for the 16th and sent them home...the 16th rolls around and well nothing major is happening.....We were told that we would have results on the 21st.  So the whole entire family is praying for a christmas miracle for Grandma and one for my cousin Michael.....drum roll the 21st is here and the oncologist gives us the news that it is NOT a tumor that it is scar tissue and grandma is fine, the cancer has not returned....so now we only have one christmas miracle to wish for and that is Michael's test results to show that his cancer has either gone into remission or that it is stable.......And we get blessed with that miracle as well....Michael is stable.....I'm estatic!!!

Ok, so we are moosing along December, have an ok christmas, was suppose to go to mom's but with all that happened well I didn't have the money to go.....Then on the 30th, I had scheduled Austin for tubes in his ears.....That trip went as scheduled, I was going to leave for mom's the next day.....yea that plan was cancelled as well.....because well Pictures are worth a thousand words

yea that is my suburban.......40+ mph winds and a top heavy vehicle doesn't mix.......kent lost control due to the wind causing him to fishtail and he hit the curb and rolled it......Austin was strapped in his carseat......I pushed for extended 5 pt harnessing and I am very thankful that I did....He was on the passenger side (this is the drivers side) he would have been thrown around........He did end up with a black eye from something flying but he is fine.......Kent is fine, his ego on the other hand isn't......Mommy on the other hand is just thankful that her boys are ok......Material things can be replaced, they can not..........

Then new years eve rolls around and there is a tornado touched down just south of us.......Seriously can this month get any worse........Nope because thank you lord it is over.......Janurary rolls in with a bang, my parts came in today and my suburban is on its way of getting fixed.........that is until the escape artist goes threw the fence and broke it again........Guess he decided that the grass was greener on the other side of the fence........