it's my girls' world

Day #62

Cassia's return to school. Anjali was so happy to play with her again in the evening

Day #64

Look who rushed to be first in line for music!

Day #67

Enjoying lunch in the mall

This week's Show Us Your Life link up with Kelly's Korner is about reading! If you've been around this blog, or around me, long enough, you would know that I love a good book! I can't wait for my favourite authors' books to come out (I usually preorder them),  I reread my favourites and I am often borrowing books from friends and family. I can't watch tv too late but I cannot go to sleep if a book is at an exciting point. Now that I have a Kindle, I unfortunately spend a little too much on books. And now that I use my Kindle app on the iPad, D uses my Kindle and let's just say it's even more $$. We love, love, love reading and so do our peeps.

The book I am reading now is Sparkly Green Earrings by Melanie Shankle,  author at The Big Mama Blog. It's a fun, easy read with some laugh out loud moments. The perfect book for reading a couple pages after a long day. 

I am a fiction fan-- My favourite authors are Jhumpa Lahiri, Emily Giffin, Judy Blume and Jennifer Weiner- mostly best selling summer reads, indo influenced and quality chick-lit. However, my favourite author of all time is Elin Hilderbrand. I absolutely adore her books! I cannot wait for mid June each year when her new novel comes out and I reread all of her books one by one each summer. Her books are usually set in the summer in Nantucket and to read them at any other time of the year just wouldn't be the same.  She very masterfully captures human relationships making them complicated and multi faceted but yet heartfelt. And so very well written. If as a kid you loved Judy Blume, then as an adult, Elin is for you. I cannot WAIT for June 14th when The Match Maker comes out!

Oh, and every year after reading all her books, I vow to visit Nantucket someday soon!

As a footnote, my favourite book to read with Cassia (and one of her favourites too), is Odd Velvet by Mary Whitcomb, a book about a very different girl that the kids first don't understand but then they realise that she is the coolest chick ever. I want to teach Cass to be kind and respectful of all other kids and this book does a great job of explaining these life lessons. I found out about this one on  a Mighty Girl where I get lots of great suggestions for literature for young girls.

And as for Little Miss A,  her favourite book is Have You Ever Tickled a Tiger by Betsy E. Snyder, a hand me down tactile book about animals that Aunt Ammie gave Cass more than four years ago. Highly, highly recommend it as a gift for baby. Both my girls adore it! 

These are all the TNT pics. I may or may not have forgotten to take some photos on some of the days. And I also may or may not have mixed up the orders of the days. We're in Week 10 or 11 now so I really need to catch up!

Day #44- Sleeping in the porch in TNT 

Day #49- 

A& A

Aja and Anjali 

Day #50 

This was taken way after bedtime. This little lady was up later than anyone else. Note the water she was having at that time- #notagoodsign #guesswhohadtochangethesheets

Day # 52

These animals were very beloved. If only I could figure out if they were sheep or goats.

Day #53

These kids love their screen time

Boy, did Cassia have a wonderful time in Trinidad. She always talks about how it was a great 'vacation' and for her it really was. She did not leave her grandparents house in 2 weeks!! Well she went outside but that was about it. She was truly in vacay mode, playing for hours on end, watching movies, swinging, running around eating waaayyy too much sugar and having the time of her life--- so much more so because of all the cousins she had around. They chatted, laughed, cried giggled and fought but all in all had the best time ever. In one week, my kids virtually saw all the cousins they had from the New Foundland ones to the Chicagonians to the Trinis. Due to a very sad circumstance but the kids really enjoyed the time together.

I am so happy that she has so many cousins and a lot in and around her age too. Growing up, I was younger than most of my cousins on my dad's side and older than my cousins on the maternal side. It's basically the same for both my kids but the gaps are closer. I love my cousins... some of them are among my favourite people in the world (I'm looking at you Ron and Rox) so I'm glad that my kids have so many playmates and hopefully life-long friends.