"To be or not to be....

....that is the question."

To be or not to be busy, is the actual question. And I have been rather busy.

Lily happens to be turning five soon, so we are throwing a small party for the little woman. As small as parties can possibly be, there still is a great deal of preparation.


We have had very slow Internet. Actually, it is pretty much no Internet because it is so slow. I would have been studying, but because of the slowness the pages expire before they download. The only things that do work are my blog, eBay and Yahoo, surprisingly enough =P

I have been reading a bit of Bronte recently.... I read Anne's book 'The Tennant of Wildfell Hall', which was very good. It was different to other books, especially comparing it to Austen, which I've never actually read. The main hero, Gilbert Markham, was far from perfect which is what I like, because it shows realism. Who in this world is perfect? None that I know of.... so yeah, that's what I like in books.

The other book I am in the process of reading: 'Wuthering Heights', by Emily Bronte. I am only up to chapter two, but so far so good.

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There is more to my busyness, but it is getting late - 6:20 pm already. Time seems to fly - I am still getting over the fact that it is November. Shocking!

Brief and Boring Update

We haven't been doing too much recently because we're still adjusting to Jess and Karli being away, but life is still full!

::Our social engagements of this week were:

Sunday - a couple from Church came over to borrow tools for their new mail box, but ended up staying for dinner, dessert and a board game!

Monday - A friend came for morning tea and brought some yummy baking with her.

Wednesday - Robert had his final appointment with the dentist to reconstruct his front tooth.

Thursday - Mum took the boys and Lily to gymnastics, followed by grocery shopping and they (the boys) had their piano lessons.

Friday - I had my flute lesson and we had four people from church over for dinner.

::Yesterday - Friday - Rob found this cute little bird's nest near our strawberries. We think it may be a wren's nest... any ideas?

(Google Image)

::On Thursday we watched "Fantastic Mr. Fox". It was excellent! It is based on a Roald Dahl book, so naturally a bit... different, but it got a lot of laughs out of us. It also had great music, including a "Beach Boys" hit.

::Bek and I are doing an OUA course called "Creative and Professional Writing". I think Bek enjoys it a tad more than I do, I'm not as crazy about writing!

::I have finished the "Human Health" course, which I'm happy to be done with! I haven't received the over-all grade for the course though, but I think I got roughly 80%.

::The full-year course, "Academic Literacy Skills" is nearly completed! I only have one assignment and an essay left.

::Random, yet not random. Today Michael had a fancy to dress in Lily's clothes; when I took photos of him I couldn't say "Smile, Mike!" with an immediate result, I had to say "Show me your teeth." He's cute, as always!

Nature

I have some more nature shots that I thought you might like to see. These were all taken about three weeks ago and you may want to see some of them bigger, the first one looks rather boring until close-up :)