So sad!!

With my little girls napping less, our new school year starting, and all the regular mom duties I take care of, I can no longer spend as much time blogging as I wish I could and so I am putting this blog on hold for a time. I hope to post occasionally when I read a really great book and have a spare moment, but it just isn't happening these days!!

Recent great reads:

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (watch the BBC mini-series too!)

Goose Girl, The Princess Academy, and Austenland by Shannon Hale (Austenland is a Jane Austen related story where a modern day girl is dreaming of finding her own Mr. Darcy, ends up taking a vacation to a resort set in the Pride & Prejudice time period where she has to act like a character of that time - really fun read; Goose Girl has sequels, but I didn't think they are as good)

The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley (I read another by Hanley but like this one the best)

Look at that!! I'm already trying to squeeze some book reviews in!! But really I won't be blogging here much in the near future (I can already hear a little voice calling to be rescued from her crib-- naptime over already!)

The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

Picture from this book. This is the copy I have, but I used the online version for these posts.

She saw her sisters rising out of the flood: they were as pale as herself; but their long beautiful hair waved no more in the wind, and had been cut off.

“We have given our hair to the witch,” said they, “to obtain help for you, that you may not die to-night. She has given us a knife: here it is, see it is very sharp. Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the prince; when the warm blood falls upon your feet they will grow together again, and form into a fish’s tail, and you will be once more a mermaid, and return to us to live out your three hundred years before you die and change into the salt sea foam. Haste, then; he or you must die before sunrise. Our old grandmother moans so for you, that her white hair is falling off from sorrow, as ours fell under the witch’s scissors. Kill the prince and come back; hasten: do you not see the first red streaks in the sky? In a few minutes the sun will rise, and you must die.” And then they sighed deeply and mournfully, and sank down beneath the waves.

The little mermaid drew back the crimson curtain of the tent, and beheld the fair bride with her head resting on the prince’s breast. She bent down and kissed his fair brow, then looked at the sky on which the rosy dawn grew brighter and brighter; then she glanced at the sharp knife, and again fixed her eyes on the prince, who whispered the name of his bride in his dreams. She was in his thoughts, and the knife trembled in the hand of the little mermaid: then she flung it far away from her into the waves; the water turned red where it fell, and the drops that spurted up looked like blood. She cast one more lingering, half-fainting glance at the prince, and then threw herself from the ship into the sea, and thought her body was dissolving into foam.

BUT that's not all!!! Go here to find out how "The Little Mermaid" ends.