Of Fish and Books

Since cooking, baking and sewing have not been working out for me so well lately, we are trying a new hobby. We are two months into aquariums :)

Fish are hard to photograph, but for illustration purposes here is my betta:
My daughter is very much into a new book - Look! A Book! and I recommend it to any toddler :)

And finally how about a pic of my nearly three year old from yesterday: Mommy and Gilrlie had some special time and went to Starbucks together :)

Books in 2011

I read a lot. And I'm pretty omnivorous when it comes to books. So to give you an idea what my reading list is like here is what I read so far this year in the order of reading:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire
3. The Historian
4. The Name of the Wind
5. The Girl That Kicked the Hornet's Nest
6. The Lost Hero
7. Awakened (I do not recommend this book unless you are already reading the series)
8. Snow Crash


I will try to maintain this lost through the year, more for my own benefit than for the poor souls' who manage to land on this page. I'm sure you have your own favorites this year, but if you haven't yet read the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson - I highly recommend it.

Open book

I've been reading a lot this year. My library card went over limit of the 30 free book requests, and I already borrowed books both in my son's and husband's name. I am still hoping to read to new releases before the year ends. How many books did you read this year? :)

My Sophia is big on reading too. We read poems almost every night and we go through at least a dozen books from the library every month.

I even got my son into reading - thank you Gregor the Overlander, you did what even Harry Potter couldn't.

I think we can call 2010 a Year of Reading in my family.

Currently reading: Count Zero by William Gibson.

In serach of a perfect day

Hello there! Now I finally understand why some blogs seem to do just that - disappear into nothing-ness for days and weeks and than resurrect themselves with profound apologies. Apparently life happens, and when it does you don't always think - I need to blog first. No, it usually is - I need to sleep first!

The last two weeks have been hard - all of four of us had been sick, though not all at the same time, but in a age-appropriate order; DH first, myself second, then the kiddos. Fun times, fun, fun times...

Since all of us are now on the mend we could actually do something fun now, but just one thing gets in the way - sleeeeeeep. I feel like I need to dig myself a little cozy hole somewhere in the midst of unfolded (clean!) laundry and sleep for a week or two.

Exercising would help with my sleepiness, but the wind blowing at 40 km/h I am not willing to spend more than an absolute necessary minimum of time outside.

So now, that you know all this vitally important information about us let me tell you about some books and recipes and Etsy finds.

Since we are traveling next month with DD i found her this tiny cute and sweet backpack from bratsacksbaby.

As far as reading goes I'm stuck between the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon and The Host by Sthephanie Meyer. The Outlander series are overwhelmingly enormous and only encouragement of my friend on GoodReads keeps me going. As for The Host... I feel a little un-excited about it. I don;t know what it is - just the whole Twilight thing exhausted my interest to the author and while I expect to like the book I'm just into reading it.

You might wonder how did I do with the Easter baking and I'm ashamed to admit that I chickened out. I had postponed baking until Sunday and that was the day when DSS had to go to the emergency room (nothing serious, in case you are wondering), so the baking just had no chance of happening. I did bake some banana bread and it was moist and sweet, but DH complained that it was a little to moist. Still in search of a perfect recipe :)

We did not take any new photos, so my exploration of digital photography is currently halted.