:: The Job That Was...n't meant to be! ::

So remember how last week I mentioned how I was having a job interview at my son's school, it was a Mon-Fri job with holidays off.

Well I didnt get the job :( When I first got off the phone after hearing that I was unsucessful and that they had decided to go with someone else, my first emotion was upset... I had gotten it in my head that I was going to get the job, that I would be perfect for the position considering all the things I'm already doing at the school, like this was the next step in my working career. All the way to the interview I was praying that this was the job for me and that God would help me on this path to this job. I felt that he was there with me while I was in the interview as I wasnt nervous like I was sure I would be, and the interview went for nearly 20mins, and they seemed to really like what I had to say. At one stage the business manager of the school even mentioned that maybe I had a Teachers Aide career in my path as I obviously loved being in the classroom and with the kids. I admitted that my MIL had mentioned the same thing to me when she saw me with the kids at the School's Cross-Country.

So when I got the message they hadnt chosen me I was upset and dissapointed in myself, for thinking that I would even be good enough to be going back to work. Obviously thats silly stupid and looking back at it now, I dont know why I would think that I'm not smart enough to go back to work. I think its more my confidence took a hit, and I felt silly stupid that I put myself out there to the work field again only to be knocked back! The love and advice of my friends on FB, made me realise that, I already have achieved so much and obviously this wasnt the job for me.

If I look at everything I've already achieved in my life, I have to be pretty clever! I have 5 beautiful children, a husband who loves me and we run a successful business together, that all equals smart if you ask me!

Then today I was reading Kochie's blog post on Counting The Cost of Two Working Parents and after reading it, I've come to realise that God/the school didnt give me that job for two reasons.

1. I already have a full time job -- raising 5 beautiful god-loving children and also the head of domestic engineering at home. Keeping this house clean and tidy to my standards is a FULL-TIME job!

2. Obviously there is something better in my career path which will be shown to me when I'm actually ready to return to work. In the meantime, I can take this time to focus on getting myself back to my pre-baby weight, work on my business degree and homeschooling the younger three until they start school.

I just pray that when the time is right for me to return to work, I'll see the signs and put myself out there again!

Let me leave you today, with a quote that I found online, before I go and finish all the unpacking from our trip out to Mum's!

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And as the amazing Marilyn Monroe aka the blonde haired bombshell (not me!)once said:

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I'll be back later, once the ferals kids are in bed to share with you a blogging award I got last week but am only getting around to blogging about now!

:: Mammarazzi Monday -- Easter ::

I came across this great blog this morning -- Mammarazzi where Mums came come together to share their love of photography and learn more on photography! 

I'm playing along with her Mammarazzi Mondays and todays theme is Easter! Pretty appropriate with Easter happening just yesterday! 

frame from Hop by Gina Miller and Jacque Larsen

I captured this photo with my iphone (like 90% of my photos lately!!) of all the Eggs that the Easter Bunny left for us to hide around Nanna's house! There were nearly 90 in total! 

They contained everything from stickers, erasers, water bombs (for the boys), necklaces (for the girls), cars (for the boys), hair bands (for the girls) and miniture chocolates. Half of them were empty as well!! The kids had a great time the following morning finding which ones had things in them!!

Come along and play with us, I would love to see how you captured Easter in your house in 2011!

:: Happy Easter!! ::

Happy Easter Everyone!!

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I pray that you all have a wonderful day with your family and friends, and that you take the time to appreciate everything that you have in your life.

Of course Easter is not Easter without the odd chocolate fix!! Worry about the weight gain tomorrow!!

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 Be back tomorrow to share our Easter Day, and other holiday shenanigans!

:: Play Dates and Packing ::

Being a mother of 5 children, I have heard all the comments one could hear when you mention that your a mum of 5 children! They have even more shocked expressions when you say the eldest is 5! 

Now imagine being that mother who organizes a play date for her eldest son to have friends over from the school on the same day the family is planning to leave on a 3 hour trip to Nanna's house! You could imagine the chaos!! 

When I planned the play date I was not thinking that is was going to be pouring down rain for the whole time they were here! Out the window went my plans to get out the jumping castle for them to all play outside....no, it had to rain so imagine my nice, clean house over-run with 12 children! Yep thats how many kids were there this morning! It was loud, it was fun, yes one or two of them cried after being hit by their big brothers, but the best bit was sitting with the other mums and just chatting!! Would I do it again? In a heartbeat!! 

Have I just spent the past hour and a half cleaning up the mess... Yes, but to see how excited Dominic was to see all his friends arrive, made it all worth it! 

Since everyone has left, i've been cleaning house again, getting clothes dry in the dryer and packing! Imagine packing to go away on holidays and then times that by 7!! Thats how much shit stuff we have to take away with us on holidays! 

We are going away for a week to my Mum's house and have to take the following things :- 

-- 5 suitcases (my eldest 4 insist on taking their own that Nanna got them for their birthdays, DH, Harry and I are sharing!) 

-- 3 backpacks 

-- 6 toothbrushes & toothpaste

-- 6 pillows

-- 5 doonas

-- 3 bikes

-- 4 scooters

-- 4 helmets

-- 2 blankets (the twins have their special blankets that go EVERYWHERE with them!) 

-- 1 laptop

-- 1 wireless modem

-- 1 container of toys

-- 1 container of craft supplies

-- 1 DVD travel case with their DVD's

-- 1 Wii remote 

-- 1 highchair

-- 1 portacot 

-- 4 drink bottles

-- 1 nappy bag

-- 1 handbag (Makayla's!) 

-- 1 cat and 1 tiger (Dominic's) 

-- 4 Easter Eggs 

-- 2 Spud Guns and half a dozen spuds!

-- and a 100 (or so) of colorful plastic eggs for the Easter Egg hunt! 

ooh and If I'm lucky I might remember to pack a book! 

All I can say is...Thank God for trailers!! 

Ooh and better not forget the Rum...I'm going to need one by the time we get out to Nanna's! Make sure the Coke is cold Mum!! 

:: Blogging, Facebook and Twitter! Oh My! ::

When I first started blogging, the most people that read it was other scrappers and my mum and sister, but I've noticed since coming back to blogging that there is a totally different audience of people that we are targeting our blog towards. What a difference a couple of years make! 

I've noticed that Mummy Bloggers are the way of the PR future! Since signing up to PR Friendly Australian Blog Directory, i've already been contacted 6 times, twice over this past weekend! I'm really excited to be joining associations with both of these two companies that contacted me, but its also made me question if thats a main driving force for blogging for some of us. I personally love reviewing products and just writing about things that happen in my day to day life. Who doesn't love to get something for free in return for giving an honest opinion on the product. Obviously you want to be reviewing something that you are confident you will love and want to rave about to your readers, so I'm nervous and becoming more aware of who I will agree to review in the future!

Who do you enjoy doing reviews for? What's been the favourite thing you have had the opportunity to review/work with? 

Which brings me to my next thing! Having a Facebook page?! I've noticed that a lot of bloggers also have a Facebook Fan Page, a way to have people that enjoy your blog and be able to keep up with you without having to have them on your personal facebook page. I'm considering starting one, but wonder would anyone come and like me?! I've only been blogging again for a month and really am I that interesting that people will want to "like" me on Facebook too! 

For those that have a FB fan page, what are some of the pros/cons of having it?

And then my last thing...Twitter! I have had an account for probably 18 months now, and I hardly every use it! I just dont get it, I logged in probably a month ago and got frustrated with it so quickly I closed it up again! 

For all you twitters out there, what do you find is the best thing about Twitter?? 

All these questions and ideas are floating around in my head tonight, but I really need to get to bed... I have my job interview tomorrow and I still haven't worked out what I'm going to wear! Its been 6 years since I've had to go for a job interview and I'm nervous and excited at the same time! 

Wish me luck!! 

:: Hop, Hop ::

Its only a week till Easter now and the kids are starting to get excited about heading out to my Mum's for the Easter break!

When we told them they could take their bikes and scooters they were so excited and wanted to start packing the trailer straight away! I had to tell them that we wernt infact leaving for a few more days so their bikes and scooters could stay outside!!

I'm happy to say that I also got to scrap again this week, twice in one week would have to be a record for me lately! I remember when I just had Dominic, and DH and I lived in Victoria with him as DH was a fireman and worked odd hours, I would sit up for hours and hours after Dominic was asleep and just scrap and scrap and chat to the ladies online. During those years I met and formed some amazing friendships, who I still have those friendships with and how I credit for keeping me sane while we lived so far away from any family or friends that we knew!

Now I'm lucky to be able to scrap once a week, and since not being able to scrap I really realise how much I have missed it!

This week its another gorgeous Gina Miller kit called Hop! and as Easter is coming up what better way topic to scrap than Easter! I love the bright and fun colours in this kit, with the little glitter bunny my favourite element in there!



Be sure to pop on over to Facebook and like Gina Miller Designs page, she's always so generous and you never know you might be able to win her next kit!!

And while your over there on Facebook, why not join Gina's photography page, she's an amazing photographer and I'm always inspired by her gorgeous newborn shoots she captures!

While we are talking facebook, I'm seeing more and more bloggers having a FB fan page, and I'm curious for those who have it your thoughts on it, I'm thinking I might start one as a way to share my blog and would love to get feedback on it!

:: Weekly Wrap-up ::

Another week is gone and I'm sitting here on a Friday night waiting for Queensland Transport to get their website up and running again so I can pay the car rego thats due...today! Who has a better way to spend a Friday night! Not Me! 

Want to know a funny story though...DH went INTO the Queensland Transport office today to register the trailer..and didnt even think about rego! To give him credit, I didnt think of it either! But I do have an excuse reason! 

I was going to title this post "Friday Night Brain Dump" but it just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue very well! 

I also wanted to quickly mention that when I came on tonight to blog, I saw that I now have 20 (make that 21, another just joined as I'm typing this up!)  followers on my little blog here! I'm was pretty excited to see that 21 people think my blog is cool enough to come and follow! So thanks ladies!! I look forward to getting to know you as we go through this journey of blogging! I must say that in the couple of weeks that I'm back blogging, I realise why I was so addicted and enjoyed it years ago! I'll be coming to follow your blogs if I'm not already! 

I also wanted to mention for those bloggers like me who are just starting out for the first time, or again after a break from blogging, some great places I have come to appreciate in the past few weeks! The first one is Aussie Mummy Bloggers, they are a wonderful group of ladies who like me are Mummy Bloggers, and enjoy networking and just sharing life with! I'm excited as there is a Sunshine Coast group on there and I've been able to see/read/follow their blogs, and there is talk of a catch up after Easter! I really love that its another way for me to meet other Mums in a social setting! 

The second one is for us bloggers who are thinking of doing some PR work on our blog, PR Friendly Aussie Blogs which is run by an amazing lady Tina Gray. I'm the first person, who when I find a product/service I just love, I love to share it with the people around me and when I came across this blog I wasnt sure if I wanted to do this, but I thought what the heck, all I have to do is put my name and blog down and if I'm blessed enough to be chosen/emailed to ask to review something then I would be happy! How doesnt love to get things for Free! And in the 3 weeks that i've been listed on the blog, I've been contacted 4 times, from 4 different people/companies!

One was a lovely lady Kat, emailing me about Deals For Mums which I blogged about last week If you missed it, be sure to have a look and enter, you could win a ipad2! But really if you dont feel like entering, please dont, as it just gives me more chances to win!! 

The other 3 companies that I have been contacted by are to host giveaways here on my blog, so after Easter be sure to pop back to see the amazing giveaways I have coming up! 

In family news, we have been enjoying our first week of School Holidays and I must say, I'm loving not having to get up and make lunches, iron uniforms and get Dominic out of the house by 8:15am to get to school! 

We did however today organize a play afternoon with some friends of his from school. It was so nice to be able to sit down and have a coffee (actually we had tea!) with the Mums, cause normally all we say at school is "Hi" and "Bye" Half of us didn't even know each other names, we are just known as "Dominic's Mum" or such and such's Mum! (for privacy reasons, I'm not going to mention their names :) ) 

They kids had a ball running around inside and outside the house, that after they all left, my eldest 4, brought out their pillows and blankets, plopped themselves in front of the TV and watched the brand new movie Minnies Masquerade that I won from Sarah at Fig Nut Mum (thanks again!!) and after dinner of Lasagna, got the kids into the pj's and by the time Stuart got home from his dusk shoot, Annabelle was already asleep on the floor with the other 3 not far behind her! 

You know when your going about your day and you think of something and your like "Ooh I should blog about that", I've had those moments all week and you think that now, as I'm sitting here I can think of them, nope! Mind is blank!

I just want to share one little thing with you and thats a layout that I scrapped this week! I haven't had a chance to just sit down, relax and scrap for months now but I did this week. Scrapping is important to me, its a way for me to be able to record my families memories, I enjoy the unleashing the creative side of me and I'm so lucky to me on some amazing teams. 

This week's layout is using Gina Miller's awesome new Piccadilly Set -- papers, elements, stickers 

There are couple of blog ideas that are going around that I'm going to look at participating in over the next couple of weeks. 

-- BlogLove is one of them 

-- DayZero -- create a list of 100 things you want to do in the next 1001 days! Definatly need to put my thinking cap on for that one! 

-- Happiness Project -- signed up and making my list daily! I haven't actually blogged about any of them yet, but they are on my list! 

I think thats it! Its after 11pm, Queensland Transport is finally back up, I've paid the rego so I can drive the car tomorrow without having to worry about a policeman pulling me over and giving me a ticket! 

So what are your plans for this weekend? 

:: Wordless Wednesday -- Sharing Is Caring::

I’m joining in Wordless Wednesday over at My Little Drummer Boys today… come along and play too!!

:: Feeling Free!::

Well not technically free, DH and I are still happily married, but today I'm certainly feeling free, like the song!

No, i'm not on some crazy pill or lost the plot but I have had some good things happen in the past day or so.

Let me start from yesterday afternoon, only a few people have our home phone so when it rang yesterday, DH goes it must be either your sister or your mum ringing, but you know that funning feeling in the pit of your stomach that it just wasnt one of them, yet I had that feeling!

Anyway, turns out it was the school calling that I applied for last week, asking me to come in for an interview! I was secretly thrilled and tried not to jump up and down while the lady was still on the phone, cause its just an interview, but seriously this is such a mini milestone for me! This is the first time in nearly 6 years that I have applied for a job, and the prospect of going back to work thrills me but scares me just a little! But hey, I hide my feelings pretty well, I'm going to rock this interview (I hope!)

Then today I went out with Stuart while he was working, and we were talking about the interview and how I really need to get a haircut before the job interview, as my hair looks like horse hair! I seriously dont remember the last time I had it cut, and I'm pretty sure it was when Mum paid for it (love ya Mum!) not long after I had Annabelle... so going in 2.5 years! It was looking bad! 

Now my husband and I have this little thing going, that everytime I'm pregnant I go dark, so that I dont have to do much with it, and when we had finished having children, I would go back blonde so that time has come, and I've had one head of foils done and it was starting to look blonde, but he's been hoping it would get lighter again still. 

So when he said I should get it done before Monday I decided to jump on GrabOne  to see if there were any promotions running for hairdressers, and God was looking out for me today, there was one with Angelic Beauty at Buddina. I havent heard of them before but decided to take the risk and call them to see if they could fit me sometime this week... and luckily she was able to get me in today at 12! So DH said to get it done, so off I went for a cut, colour, massage and blowdry! And might I add it only cost me $49, normally $180! I love GrabOne!! I have to say that the ladies in there are amazing!! I'll definatly be going back there again!

Three hours later and I emerged, free! I ended up needing 5 inches (OH!) cut off to make it look healthy again and I'm so happy with it! Sitting there in the chair, another client was saying she loved my hair and how beautiful and healthy it looked! I've never had a compliment like that before and made me feel pretty happy with myself! Bring on Monday now!!!

And of course, I couldnt blog this without at least sharing a photo! So, here's the new (lighter ME!)

On this lovely Tuesday, what makes you feel happy and stress free?

Also be sure to check back again often! I have a couple of giveaways in the pipeline that I cant wait to share with my blog readers!

:: This Week I Know::

I'm playing along with this weeks Things I Know 

-- I know that I have been trying  to write this post for three days now! 

-- I know that I'm looking forward to Easter and relaxing with family out at my Mum's place!

-- I know that the more I search online for homeschooling preschool curriculum I'm finding more and more things to print!!

-- I know that if I leave the house for a night out, that I'll return in the morning to nothing having been tidied!

-- I know that I'm (along with DH!) are raising pretty awesome kids, when Dominic tells me he's eating the best dinner in the world (chicken nuggets, peas and some chips!) cause I made it!

-- I know that everytime I hope in the car, I'm listening along to this song at least once, maybe twice!!

:: Bargain Hunting Mum::

Being a mummy to five, I'm always on the lookout for a bargain, whether its something I know the kids are needing, like winter clothes I always start looking at the end of the winter season to get ready for the following year, I always seem to be able to get a bargain and more clothes for less! 

More and more lately I have seen blogs and websites popping up, who in conjunction with businesses, are offering discounts for everything from collagen injections (seriously!) to rounds of golf (yawn!) to even personal training sessions (sign me up please!!) 

I had the pleasure of having been contacted by a lovely lady Kat Cho, who in May is going to be launching a website called Deals For Mum. As Kat explained to me, Deals For Mum, will be offering online deals which will be available for a limited time and will saves Mum's at least 50% off the regular price! 

Deals For Mum will launch in Sydney first, however I have had confirmation from Kat that there till be business who will offer nation-wide deals! 

So be sure to come and like Kat's Deals For Mum Facebook Page, cause everyone who comes over and "likes" the page goes into the running for....you guessed it..... 

AN IPAD 2!!! 

Jealous Much!! I'm so hoping that I win though, I have been dying (well not literally!!) to get once since they came out, but how cool would it be to win one!! 

So hop, skip or just click on the link and like Kat's page!! You never know...it could be YOU who wins!! 

Good Luck!! 

:: Intruder Alert::

It seems this week we have had a intruder come into our home, unannounced and pounced on us without warning... yep the dreaded cold has entered our home and we have 5 sick kids to prove it! 

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It started slowly like all colds do, Dominic came home with a slight cough, which over a day or two turned into a cough with throwing up, to a cough with throwing up and waking up at 3 am to climb into our bed, to a cough that has spread to all the other kids, including Harry! 

The kids all went down to Aunty Becca's aka Our Nanny, today for some quiet time, with pillows and doonas and a day of chilling out with ABC2, definatly a parent's best friend on sick days! 

So while they were there chilling, I was back at home with a sick and tired Harry, and trying to get housework done and also business paperwork, all while feeling that I'm sure that dreaded intruder is about to come and bite me in the butt! Yep, I'm sure I'm coming down with it, so figured that while I was still able to get out of bed, I'd get the house cleaned up and ready for my grandfather who is coming to stay tomorrow night, and also the dinner we are having with Stu's parents, sisters and Grandma who has flown up from Tasmania to stay before they all fly over to Fiji for Stu's eldest sister wedding in a few weeks. 

I managed to get everything done beside the floors, and I think its the main thing that make our house look untidy! I mean they are white, and are through all the main living areas, and with 4 messy eating children and 1 who is crawling around everywhere, they have to be done every night otherwise they look like a herd of elephants have been tramping through the house! Its great as exercise if I didn't get to through the day, but really having to mop the floors every night around 9pm is so not how I feel like spending my evenings!! 

Now before I go and climb into bed and pray for a good nights sleep, I'll leave you with a little parting photo of my dear little one today, who even with a cold still manages a smile for Mummy! 

This was taken in the space of 5 minutes! Thats how my kids roll, from awake to asleep in 0-5 minutes flat!! 

:: Point & Shoot -- Firsts::

This week I'm playing along with Point & Shoot which is the brainchild of Chantelle over at Fat Mum Slim and this week it was hosted by Lou at Sunny + Coast.

The subject was firsts.

We put out our first Easter decorations, these are a great and easy idea that we got from Overflow for $2.00 for 12! The kids just love them, and they are a great and cheap way to brighten up the dining table!

Tomorrow, we are making a bunny bunting banner, pictures to come soon!

:: Things I Know.....

I'm playing along with Yay For Home: Things I Know this week

I know that every time I pick up my iPhone, I'm guaranteed to find at least 100 self taken photos of Dominic.

I know that no matter how many times I make the kids beds, I'm sure to see them messed up at least a couple of times a day!

I know that I'm glad that the weather is starting to cool down and we can keep the doona on all night.

I know that since starting my weight loss journey 6 weeks ago, I've lost nearly 10kgs.

I know that I'm nervous at the prospect of returning to work after 5 years.

I know that I'm excited at the prospect of returning to work after 5 years!

I know that if 1 child gets sick, that its only a matter of time before the other 4 get sick too!

I know that I never get used to the smell of vomit from a child.

I know that as soon as one of our kids get sick, we will let them go to sleep on us at naptime or even in our bed at night!

I know that Dominic is already about to start school holidays from this coming Friday

I know that all the kids are looking forward to spending Easter out at Nanna's & Uncle Wayne.

I know that after only getting 2 hours sleep last night because of a sick child, that going to bed at 8:30pm tonight doesnt seem too bad!

I know that you should come play along with Yay For Home’s Things I Know link up…

:: 100 Books to Read Before You Die ::

This BBC top 100 book list seems to be making the rounds on Facebook and also other bloggers blogs, so I thought I would see how many I had actually read. I'm guessing it wont be that many, as a lot of them are classics, but this is one of the things on my bucket list, and it will be nice to start reading and enjoying some of the classic books written!

The instructions are to hightlight in bold all books you have read and italicise the ones you’ve started but haven’t finished.

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl

57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

So i've read 14 books on this list which is pretty good considering, however there are certainly a lot of these books I'm going to try and read this year!

How many books have you read from this list? Make a list on your blog and come back and link me up, I would love to see it!