BIRTHDAY!!!

I'm so excited! Lena is going to be one on April 8th! We get to have a fun party and everything! My little baby is getting too big! What am I going to do now?!?!

Spring Break!

Okay, so by Spring Break I actually mean break from school to spend time with the girls. It's a little hard to get used to again, having relied on them going to school for so long. We had fun today though! Sadie has so much energy, Lena is learning things so fast! It's incredible!

I've been AWOL from the internet lately due to mid-terms and other school stuff, so this is my first post in a while. I haven't had time to read or anything.

Right now, I'm in the middle of two different books.
and

I'm listening to the audio book for Edgar Sawtelle and am really enjoying it, and Alyson Noel is an amazingly entertaining writer, so I'm loving Fly Me to the Moon. Well, I'm off.

(Actually, I just thought of something I could share that I've been doing. I'm learning to play the piano!)

Meme

I got this meme from Steph Su Reads, who got it from Chelsea at The Page Flipper. It's going to be a little pathetic, because I've just started reading teen reads within the last year.

The following list of books teens love, books teens should read, and books adults who serve teens should know about was compiled IN ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC MANNER and should be taken with a very large grain of salt.

Instructions:
Put an "X" next to the books you've read
Put a "+" next to the books you LOVE
Put a "#" next to the books you plan on reading
Tally your "X"s at the bottom
Share with your friends!

1. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams
2. Kit's Wilderness / David Almond
3. Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian / Sherman Alexie
4. Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson #
5. Feed / M.T. Anderson
6. Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews
7. 13 Reasons Why / Jay Asher #
8. Am I Blue? / Marion Dane Bauer (editor)
9. Audrey Wait! / Robin Benway #
10. Weetzie Bat / Francesca Lia Block
11. Tangerine / Edward Bloor
12. Forever / Judy Blume
13. What I Saw and How I Lied / Judy Blundell #
14. Tyrell / Coe Booth
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Ann Brashares X+
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty / Libba Bray #
17. The Princess Diaries / Meg Cabot #
18. The Stranger / Albert Camus
19. Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card
20. Postcards from No Man's Land / Aidan Chambers
21. Perks of Being a Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky
22. And Then There Were None / Agatha Christie
23. Gingerbread / Rachel Cohn X+
24. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist / Rachel Cohn and David Levithan #
25. Artemis Fowl (series) / Eoin Colfer
26. The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins #
27. The Midwife's Apprentice / Karen Cushman
28. The Truth About Forever / Sarah Dessen #
29. Little Brother / Cory Doctorow
30. A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly X+
31. Tears of a Tiger / Sharon Draper
32. The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer
33. Breathing Underwater / Alex Flinn
34. Stardust / Neil Gaiman X+
35. Annie on My Mind / Nancy Garden
36. What Happened to Cass McBride / Gail Giles
37. Fat Kid Rules the World / K.L. Going
38. Lord of the Flies / William Golding X
39. Looking for Alaska / John Green #
40. Bronx Masquerade / Nikki Grimes
41. Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
42. Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
43. The Outsiders / S.E. Hinton
44. Crank / Ellen Hopkins #
45 The First Part Last / Angela Johnson
46. Blood and Chocolate / Annette Curtis Klause #
47. Arrow's Flight / Mercedes Lackey
48. Hattie Big Sky / Kirby Larson
49. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
50. Boy Meets Boy / David Levithan
51. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks / E. Lockhart #
52. The Giver / Lois Lowry
53. Number the Stars / Lois Lowry
54. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie / David Lubar
55. Inexcusable / Chris Lynch
56. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things / Carolyn Mackler #
57. Dragonsong / Anne McCaffrey
58. White Darkness / Geraldine McCaughrean
59. Sold / Patricia McCormick
60. Jellicoe Road / Melina Marchetta #
61. Wicked Lovely / Melissa Marr #
62. Twilight / Stephenie Meyer X+
63. Dairy Queen / Catherine Murdock
64. Fallen Angels / Walter Dean Myers
65. Monster / Walter Dean Myers
66. Step From Heaven / An Na
67. Mama Day / Gloria Naylor
68. The Keys to the Kingdom (series) / Garth Nix
69. Sabriel / Garth Nix
70. Airborn / Kenneth Oppel
71. Eragon / Christopher Paolini
72. Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
73. Life As We Knew It / Susan Beth Pfeffer
74. The Golden Compass / Phillip Pullman #
75. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging / Louise Rennison #
76. The Lightning Thief / Rick Riordan
77. Always Running: La Vida Loca / Luis Rodriguez
78. how i live now / Meg Rosoff
79. Harry Potter (series) / J.K. Rowling X+
80. Holes / Louis Sachar
81. Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger
82. Push / Sapphire
83. Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi
84. Unwind / Neil Shusterman
85. Coldest Winter Ever / Sister Souljah
86. Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
87. Chanda's Secrets / Allan Stratton
88. Tale of One Bad Rat / Brian Talbot
89. Rats Saw God / Rob Thomas
90. Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien X
91. Stuck in Neutral / Terry Trueman
92. Gossip Girl / Cecily Von Ziegesar X
93. Uglies / Scott Westerfeld #
94. Every Time a Rainbow Dies / Rita Williams-Garcia
95. Pedro and Me / Judd Winick
96. Hard Love / Ellen Wittlinger
97. American Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang
98. Elsewhere / Gabrielle Zevin
99. I am the Messenger / Markus Zusak
100. The Book Thief / Markus Zusak #

Ummm...I've apparently read 9 of 100. I told you. Pathetic!

Lots and lots of books!

Some days I feel like people judge me. Today is one of those days. I mooch or swap books and all of my books arrive at the same time! Today was a day just like that! I got:
, , and from Paperbackswap.
, , and from BookMooch.
and that I won from Sarah's Random Musings.
Right now I'm living with my in-laws and when I get this many books at once, I'm pretty sure they're judging my spending habits. It kinda takes the fun out of getting all those books in the mail! Well, maybe not!

The Gargoyle

So, I finished this book the other day and now I feel as though I should tell everyone I know to read it! It was slow going at first, but as the book went on I grew to love it and I couldn't stop reading it! I very much recommend it to all!


The Gargoyle

Here's the Goodreads description:

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time

The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul.

A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished.

Already an international literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.

Your Blog is Fabulous!

Marie from cupcake witch gave me an award!!
If you get this award you have to:
1~Say five things you are addicted to.
2~Nominate 5 other bloggers/people with this award.

Hmmm...
5 Things I'm Addicted To:
1- I, like Marie, am also addicted to coffee. I don't see any way not to be with two kids!
2- Target. Shopping at Target balances me. I love Target!
3- School. I should be done by now, but I'm not. I can't really decide what I want to be when I "grow up", so I just keep going to school!
4- Watching tv shows on dvd. Buffy, Charmed, Veronica Mars...I could go on and on.
5- My kids. I don't know what I would do without them! I probably wouldn't exist (at least that's what it feels like).

The 5 people I nominate for this award are:
1- Steph from Reviewer X. Because I love someone who will speak their mind regardless of what other people think!
2- Alea from Pop Culture Junkie. Because she's great and her blog is great and there is no more I can say!
3- Sarah from Sarah's Random Musings. She's a fun blogger!
4- Taren from The Chick Manifesto. Because she's fun and quirky and we like a lot of the same things!
5- Melissa Walker. Because she's Melissa Walker and I'm Melissa Walker. Melissa Walker's are great!

So thank you for the award Marie!!

PARTY!!!!

Amanda Ashby is having a wonderful release party for her book Zombie Queen of Newbury High!!! Every guest post has a contest to win, so go and have fun with the guests and enter some wonderful contests!!! Fun Fun Fun!!! http://amandaashby.blogspot.com/

Yay!!!