My Creatively Random Life

It's time for the always fun monthly meeting of book loving bloggers hosted by  The Armchair Squid .  The idea is to share a book that you have read this month and then head out and check out what everybody else read.  It's a great way to add to your To Be Read list with books you may not have come across otherwise. My favourite read this month comes from Canada's female literary legend, Margaret Atwood .  Having been a huge fan since the first time I read The Handmaid's Tale in high school I didn't think there was much she had written that I hadn't already devoured.  Apparently I was wrong.   Alias Grace is a work of historical fiction based around Grace Marks a Canadian maid who in 1843 was convicted in the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear.  I read through the  trial  after in the Toronto Library collection and it was almost as fascinating as the book to me.  A big part of the draw to this story for me is that thi...

Since I have spent what feels like every waking minute this week at my office I thought I would post an old picture of Cat visiting Mommy at work.  Tiny and cute she was.  

Here we are again at Friday which means it's time to look back over the week and celebrate what made it easier to get through.  This blog hop is hosted by Scribblings of an Aspiring Author .  It's been another not so easy week here so counting my blessings makes it much easier on me to remember that things will get better. - Ace is home safe and sound. - He brought me a fancy new hat when he came home. - Ace and I spent the afternoon at Wonderland on Wednesday and got to go on the Skyrider before they retire it on September 1. Please visit the other bloggers who are participating and see what they are celebrating this week and then join in and tell us what you are celebrating.

One of the things I often notice when I go through my collection of pictures is that I don't have a lot of pictures of myself.  It's not an ingrained habit for me to remember to force my friends to take pictures when we are together or my family either but it is very important.   A part of the reason why I started to do the Throwback Thursday posts was to remind myself of that so that I take more pictures with the people I love.  Even if the moment isn't picture perfect, because one day it will be.   Today's picture is one of me and one of my closest friends from my cousins birthday party a couple years ago.  We don't get as much time to hang out as we used to because of how our lives have changed but we try.   Do you remember to take pictures when you can? 

It's time once again for my favourite blog hop Celebrate the Small Things hosted by  Scribblings of an Aspiring Author .  This week has been full of ups and downs but I have come out of it ok in the end and looking forward to the weekend and a chance to unwind.  On my celebration list this week are: - Ace comes home this Sunday.  Yay! - I have made great progress with Physio and now have virtually no pain in my knee. Visit the other bloggers that are participating and see what they are celebrating this week:

This is Ace's last Thursday away, Sunday night he comes home, thank goodness.  I love knowing that he is having fun and enjoying all these life enriching experiences but I miss him terribly.  Plus it's time to start getting ready to go back to school and I want to squeeze as much into the last few days of summer vacation with them as I can. Today's picture is a fun summer one from Canada's Wonderland, I have a ton of those in my collection, we seem to live there in the summer.

The good thing about Ace being away is that Cat and I have gotten to spend a lot of good quality mother/daughter time together.  Her favourite thing to do when we do this of course is to go to  Canada's Wonderland  because she is a die hard thrill seeker already.  Plus you can experience so many things in one day, which is fun when you are a kid.  (or an adult) One of Cat's favorite things to do when her brother isn't there is watch ALL the shows as she is very into singing and dancing.  (what 5 year old girl isn't)  So off we went to check the schedules for what was playing when. We discovered that the British Invasion show was starting shortly so we got our souvenir cup filled up and grabbed a seat nice and close to the stage.  We went on a magical journey through five decades of British contributions to music.  It was a lot of fun, Cat's favorite part was the dancing whereas I was in love with all the costumes. Afterwards we...