I'm Honored

Easter has presented me with this very cool award! I am very honored.

Now I know I have to pass this on to a few people so:

Liz at A Chair, A Fireplace and A Tea Cozy,
PJ at Roots in Myth
Kelly at Big A little a
Margaret at Minnesota Mom
Karen Edmisten
and
Beth at Writing it Out

Because I think you are all really cool. I think lots and lots of blogs are cool - but I did need to limit myself a bit here.

This Made My Day

I was so touched to see that Esther, A Catholic Mom in Hawaii awarded me this new award created by Deb of Ukok's Place. It's a lovely award, letting people you think they make the world a better place. Well, I certainly think that both Esther and Deb make this world a better place.

Here are the rules for this award (more details are available at Ukok's Place):

1. use Ukok’s ‘You make the world a better place’ image in your post.
2. link to Ukok’s Place.
3. Award 5 bloggers.

There are so many bloggers that I read and enjoy and wish I knew personally and could sit down with a cup of tea with, but I will limit myself to five.
So - to you: I think you make the world a better place.

Alice at Cottage Blessings

Vivian at HipWriterMama

Tricia at Roots in Myth

Kelly at Big A, little a

and

Lissa at Here in the Bonny Glen

Blogger Reflection Award

Way back on Thanksgiving Barb at SFO Mom was kind enough to award me with the Blogger Reflection Award. Wow! I was floored. The reason it took me so long to post about it is that I was reflecting on who else to nominate.

The details of this award are as follows:

The reason for the title of this award is because this award should make you reflect on five bloggers who have been an encouragement, a source of love, impacted you in some way, and have been a Godly example to you. Five Bloggers who when you reflect on them you get a sense of pride and joy… of knowing them and being blessed by them.

This award is for the best-of-the-best so consider who you pick, carefully. This award should not be given to just anyone. If you’re going to do the award don’t just write a few words and slap it on your blog. Write real thoughts about these bloggers and what they’ve been to you, and if the bloggers you pick have already been given the award, don’t be afraid to give to them again. They deserve it as many times as it’s given.

Rules of participating:
1. Copy this post.
2. Reflect on five bloggers.
3. Make sure you link this post so others can read it and the rules.
4. Go leave your chosen bloggers a comment and let them know they’ve been given the award.
5. Put the award icon on your site.

See, what held me up was figuring out five other bloggers. I'm sure some of the people who I'm going to reflect on have already received it. That's fine.

First I'd like to reflect that reading Lissa at Here in the Bonny Glen, Alice at Cottage Blessings and Karen Edmisten all make home-schooling look wonderfully rewarding and easy. Upon reflection, reading them doesn't make me want to home school, it makes me want to ship my kids off to them so they can teach my children. I'm sure my children would be the better for it.

Suzanne, at Adventures in Daily Living, has dealt with a lot of 'adventures' in her daily life lately, and she's posted about them with a faith-filled spirit that I find truly inspiring.

And reading the posts over at Ask Sister Mary Martha always brings a smile to my face and provides me with things to think about (and isn't that what reflecting is all about).

So, thanks again, Barb for this award. And I knew I'd get to it eventually!

Nice Matters

I am so honored. Barb at SFO Mom awarded me the Nice Matters Award. Now, I need to award it to some other nice bloggers. Here's where the trouble comes in, I only like to associate with people I consider nice, so virtually everyone on my blogroll would be eligible for this award. And also, this one's been around for awhile, so a lot of those people have probably already received this award. So - what to do? I'm going to award some of my favorites and not worry if they've already received this honor. And if I didn't mention you, it's not because I don't think you're nice. I'm sure I do - but I can only mention so many without getting ridiculous.

Oh, and Barb, I'd turn right around and nominate you again.

So without further ado my Nice Matters Awards go to:
Alice
Lissa
HipWriterMama
Esther
Liz
Kelly
and Deb

I'm going to stop there - even though I could totally go on and on. There's a lot of niceness in the blogosphere if you ask me.

Thanks again, Barb.