Book Meme

Apparently, the average American has read 6 of the following books. How many have you read?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -I have read most, but not all
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen
69Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens8
2 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The ones I have read are in red. I counted 29. Better than the average but still.

North Shore Weekend

We went to the North Shore this weekend. We did a 5 mile hike. The the kids all did really good, especially Birtukan. Bob and I were both impressed on what a trooper she was. She walked over 4 of the 5 miles. It was one of those days when you are just reall proud of your family. We had a great time.

Comfy!!

My standard Sleep/lounge wear is baggy sweats and a baggy music t-shirt, preferably of the Irish punk genre. My daughter has decided this her sleepwear of choice as well. the one difference is she looks a adorable and I just look like a slob!

Do good parents get their kids spiders?

Our Anniversary is coming up. It more a family event. We always get presents for the kids. The one thing Dylan has been asking for is a tarantula. After alot of research and discussion we decided to order him one that looks like this. Quiet! He doesn't know his spider is coming! The jury in my own head is still out on wheither we are supercool or superstupid parents!

1st tooth and Preschool!

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One Year ago

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We met our girls for the first time. Here are some of pictures from our trip.

EKC Picinc

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This weekend we went the EKC Picnic . Were able to see old friends, meet new friends, jump, play, dance. It was a good time!

Summertime Fun- Finally!

It is finally warm!! We have done a water activity 4 out of the last 5 days!

Wedding Bliss-Travis & Tatiana

1 Year Ago

Last May 23 at about 1:30 in the afternoon we got the call and saw these beautiful faces for the first time. When I think back to that day and the year since it is almost overwhelming. I remember going almost crazy waiting to go get our girls.

I wish I could write the words I feel in my heart. I think it a mix of Joy of what these two beautiful girls have brought into our family, sadness for what they have losted, a bit of a broken heart for the family in Ethiopia whose daughters are on the otherside of the world, grateful for all the wonderful people I have meet through this process, most of all humbled with the honor of those little voices call me Mommy and Bob Daddy! I love you girlies!!

the Good the Bad & the Ugly

THE GOOD

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Dylan had a piano recital Friday night. He did a great job!

THE BAD

Junie ended up very sick this weekend. We took her to the vet Saturday morning and found out she had Lyme's Disease.

THE UGLY

Because of our sick pooch we missed a weekend in Chicago with Ethiopian travel group. I hope you guys all had a wonderful time!

Daddy's Girlies

I made my bed myself!

Sometimes it is the littlest things are what melts your heart as a parent. Birutkan came into my room this morning and said "I made my all by myself!" She did a pretty good job as you can see!