Oops! I've been tagged...

Mimi has done tagged me...  Apparently I have to tell you 7 things you don't already know about me in 10 minutes or less.  Her penalty for not doing so was that her house would be swept away with something political.. 

Mine, I'm guessing, will be that a cat will have an accident within the next day.

Oops! Too late!!  I KNEW I should have done this on Friday...

See Mimi?  There is credence to those threats!

Here are the rules, which I'm already breaking because Mimi couldn't find the award so I could copy it.  I have no idea where to find it, so oh well.  cat poo...

My comments are in blue, so they won't overlap Mimi's, which are red.

1. Display the award logo on your blog. (I can't find it. So imagine a real purty, shiny award here.) I can't find it either and it's not from the lack of the lack of trying.
2. link back to the person(s) who nominated you. (Done!) Done!
3. State 7 things about yourself. (I'm getting there, sheesh, hold your horses.) Whew...  Let's try and think this morning... 
4. Nominate 15 bloggers for this award. (Do 15 bloggers even read me anymore?)  I know they read Mimi, but do I have that many that read mine??  I'll try... 
5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination by linking to one of their specific posts so that they get notified by pingback. (Totally lost me there. What the hell is a pingback?)  No clue what a ping back is either.  If it was Linux I could guess and tell you, but I know this isn't...

 

Here goes: Seven things about me right now:

1. My daughter's car is still in the ditch..  We went out to visit it yesterday over lunch and retrieve some things.  MAYBE it'll get out today.  I hope so!  So does she.

2. Tried to go to JoAnn's last night for the prom dress materials...  Due to the blizzard the night before, all my activities last night were cancelled..  and guess what?  JoAnn's was CLOSED!!!  I guess the employees were too scared to go to work during a blizzard cleanup.  

3. We picked up some saline solution instead at one of the million stores immediately surrounding JoAnns that were all open!

4. I haven't made any cream soda syrup this week due to a kind gift of DDP from a friend.

5. I have an unused dog kennel in my office right now.  It's been here since Leon's birthday weekend to store the cats in during the party and REALLY needs to get back in the house.  Having two Golden Retrievers cooped up in one kennel at night has been annoying...  They're large kennels, but sheesh!  It's especially annoying when one is pregnant and moody.  At least I'm guessing she is...  pregnant I mean.

6. Meri brought me back a souvenir from her weekend with her aunt and cousins.  She brought me an R2D2 spatula!  I used it this morning for some french toast.  Beep Beep BOO Two.  It works!  I'm such a Star Wars geek... ;P

7. Just finished an episode of the Mentalist this morning before getting out of bed.  I think with the experience of watching that show on a continual basis, I could totally catch the bad guy...  It's usually one of the guests that you've seen on some show once upon a time that you can't quite remember from where.

OK done.  Oh wait, except for the tagging...  Who to pick!?  If I miss someone, they'll hate me forever.  It's happened. 

Well, you know what??...  Since I've already been punished (by the cat) for not responding with this post in a timely manner, I'm just not going to do this part.  So HA!  If you'd like to do it, I say GO FOR IT!  

But you're not contractually liable and nothing bad will befall you if you don't.  I'd hate to be one of those "evil" chain letter thingys!

Have a great Tuesday!!!

It's a Major Award!

My mind is still in a fog from this head cold this morning. I didn't get much sleep last night and what sleep I did get, contained really weird dreams. Anyone want to live in a house that does have a fireplace in the living room, but it's full of leaves and small animals and also has a toilet for decoration in the corner?... Like I said, they were weird.

But HEY! I won the Versatile Blogger award yesterday from Annie Jones over at Haphazard Homestead!!! I'm sorry but I'm not feeling like tagging 15 people and ticking off 176 followers... It's just too much work. I love all of you guys to pieces!!!
It may be the cold talking... I remember being a bit out of it after Meri was born and an acquaintance called me at the hospital to congratulate me. I ended the conversation with I LOVE you!! Things were a bit awkward after that...

Anywho, I will put down 7 little known items about me. If you've followed me a while, then you probably already know some of them. I'll try and surprise you tho.

1) I met Annie IRL!!! About 2 years ago, on our way to Spring break in Branson, Missouri, we stopped and met her at a Perkins and enjoyed breakfast with her and her little Kat! Unfortunately the picture we took of them accidentally got erased from my camera....

2) When I was a kid, I used to play in the dirt. a.lot... There was a small hill directly behind our house in the country, leading down to a service type road. My sisters and I would dig in the dirt and build little villages up and down that slope. My fingernails always looked terrible.

3) Annie and I are on the totally opposite spectrum politically. I am firmly on the conservative side of the fence... Don't let that scare you! Let's just say if we lived in the same state, we could cancel out each others vote!

4) As a teenager, I ate a piece of dog food on a dare once and it wasn't that bad... My youngest did when she was a toddler and we had to rush her to the hospital because she wouldn't stop screaming. To this day I have no idea how it happened, but when we got home from the hospital she was still really fussy and then she barfed on my coat and there in the middle of it was a triangular bit of plastic... I can only assume it was in with the dog food...

5) Our water softener has been on the fritz now for about 6 months. Just haven't had the gumption to get it fixed yet and there are still 4 bags of salt in the trunk of my car.

6) I made a denim Boppy pillow a week or so ago for my daughter-in-law and grandson. Oh my goodness, they love it to pieces! I took the stuffing out of a body pillow I'd made her while she was still pregnant. She hasn't used it since and there is a zipper in the body pillow so I can re-stuff it someday if she needs it again.

Yes, he's smiling and laughing! I still haven't witnessed this, but Tiffany took a pic with her camera when she got him to do it. Sorry the pic is a little dark...

7) I get to see one of my nieces try for her Black belt tomorrow in Kansas City! Since I'm of a different Taekwondo association than them, I feel obligated to wear my Black Belt and intimidate them all. (not really... But I'm trying to convince Meri of doing that with hers...)

Ok - there are my 7 things. If you want to do that too, go for it! I'm not going to stop you or force you either.

Have a great Friday!

And the winner is....

I didn't watch the awards last night either... Maybe you did... I can't speak for you. I'm cleaning my sewing room out as it will have a temporary occupant for the next few weeks. NOT my son.

So I'm stacking boxes of my fabric stash in my bedroom and moving my sewing tables back out into my hallway again. Good thing it's a bit wide and has good lighting! I've got a couple masterpiece dresses to crank out this spring. Ok 5. Easter is coming up, no?

I had a great weekend, but as usual it was much too short.

In the mail on Friday, (It's probably been sitting in the box since Tuesday...) I received a book that I won from Pennie at Mom Thoughts! "Song of Renewal" by Emily Sue Harvey. About a family who's daughter is in a car accident and in a coma. I can't wait to crack it open! Go check her out. She's amazing! Thank you Pennie! I'm sure I'm going to have to have some Kleenexes close by...And I won two awards last week!!!

First one was from Christina at Rant Rave & Roll. I LOVE her Wednesday Funnies! I usually cut and paste them into an email for my husband, they are so funny... She calls me a Stylish Blogger. She obviously doesn't own a dictionary... but maybe my style is so unique that I don't even recognize it as a type of style. Maybe "I" need a better dictionary!

I have to list 7 things about myself that I didn't already post last week and that you may not know about me...

1) I went out to dinner last night with my hubby for Valentines day and did NOT even acknowledge the couple sitting behind us even tho the husband was a black belt and from the same TKDo club as me... Well, THEY didn't say hello either!!

2) My internet was acting very flakey last night and this morning and I wasn't even sure I'd be able to work this morning with it. But I diagnosed the problem and fixed it. Aren't I smart??!!! And because of that, the livingroom computer is down for the count. oops.

3) Talked about my 16 year olds potty training stories over the weekend in front of her boyfriend and his parents and she didn't even mind too much... Hmmm.. Wondering what I can get away with next!

4) I still have Christmas lights out in front of our house, but I DID take down the garland. It was looking pretty sad... and brittle.

5) I have a frosted cupcake candle on my desk but I so rarely have matches in the house so it just sits.

6) My little Sunday School kids are a hoot! I LOVE the preschool bunch! 2-5 year olds. wow. I'm so glad their moms sometimes hang out to help out! :)

7) I LOVE the album Anthem by Ronan Hardiman. I've found my old cd case, but can't find the cd. Dang. Where IS that??

ANOTHER award last week!!! How do "I" rate?! This one is from my twin Mimi over at 4 Living In France. Except for the fact that she Lives In France (not really), looks nothing like me, has a flat version of herself like Flat Stanley (I am SO jealous) and curses when she crafts. My husband says that if she lived next door, he'd never see me... Separated by over 1000 miles, it's like we were separated at birth.

She gave me the Memetastic Award!

According to the rules here.. let me get my glasses, the print is so fine... I have to give you 5 confessions. One of them is a lie and you get to try and guess which one.

1) My sister and I sang "'65 Love Affair" at the top of our voices after driving through rush hour in Kansas City with our extremely strict uncle in the back seat. And then got a lecture...

2) I was once spanked with a broom by my mom.

3) I failed to pay taxes in Nebraska one year because I was ignorant... It was a booger to iron out.

4) I once dated two boys at the same time and neither one found out.

5) My best friend, her sister and I dug a swimming pool in their backyard one hot summer day and filled it with the hose.

Which one is a lie?

Ok - I have to get back to work, so I don't have time to pick and choose the recipients of these awards.

I know.. I know... I'm terrible...

I hereby give these two awards to anyone who wants them! Please linky back to me so I'll make sure I check out your lists when you post them. Either one. The 7 random things about you or the 5 truth/lies quiz.

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!!!!

It's Wednesday, right?

I can't believe it's only Wednesday... I'm ready for a weekend.

I got an award and feel very special indeed... It's from Wild Irish Rose over at Sweeping Doody! Go check her out and tell her Howdy! So a big THANK YOU to her!!Ok - I need to tell you 7 things about myself. Here we go.

1) I'm not the worlds best housekeeper and only clean my closets out when I'm mad at my husband... Lately they've been pretty messed up... I have a plaque in my home office that says, "The house was clean yesterday. Sorry you missed it." I'm trying to remember who gave that to me! What were they implying?!!!

2) I don't typically wear earrings because my ears get infected if I wear any for more than one day. So I save them for special occasions and I have 2 good pairs that I like to wear then. But for Christmas I got a beautiful pair from Maddy and I've worn them since. And guess what? No infections! They're a good set! With a matching cross necklace when I want to really dress up...

3) It was -2 degrees this morning when I ran Meri to school. But it's supposed to get up to 40 degrees by this weekend! Bring on the melting! I'm ready...

4) Worked with Meri on her learning all the 50 states this morning. They have a test every day until they pass it. She has to know the abbreviations too. I finally get the three states I've always messed up figured out now. M.A.G. Stands for Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia. I never said I was a geography wizard...

5) I can get ticked off by certain people sometimes... But I don't show it. My mother always told me that if I didn't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all... So I get kind of quiet and have the conversation in my head instead. Does that make me a psycho?

6) I keep a Maxwell House International Cafe tin on my desk with homemade powdered salt in it for when I have a popcorn snack... Don't try to make French Vanilla cappuccino with it. It just won't taste right...

7) I have this tractor pulley wheeley thingy that I think I got at some auction. Don't remember why. So I cleaned it up and put it out as a form of decor in my office. I think it looks kind of cool... But see that pencil underneath? I was in a phone meeting once and lost my pen. I saw that and grabbed it to write down some notes while on the phone. Apparently I put that pencil there for a reason... The thing rolls. As I'm talking, it starts rolling off the table and I grab at it twisting my wrist weirdly and it slams to the floor. It's back up there now, but that pencil stays put. If I have to write with a crayon instead, I will...So.. the rules are that I need to give this award to 15 people. GASP! Who has THAT kind of time?! I'm going to pick and notify the last 5 people that followed me! Hear that guys?

Here they are! My last 5 followers that have blogs. Go visit them and tell them Hello! I'm following each of them as well and I think they're pretty special.

Sheila at KnitsCooks&Crochets - FUN FUN projects and food and chatty! My kind of blog!
Confessions from a Compulsive Addict - Funny Funny lady!
Larri at Seams Inspired - She is the craftiest Christian I've ever met! Great projects!
Your Best Friend - Letters to a best friend. Things she'd like to say, but often doesn't. Very thoughtful!
Julocha at Moments of Perfect Clarity - my American friend who lives in Denmark! I've been following her interesting stories and family for a long time now. Her home and projects are gorgeous!

Anyway - you guys know the rules. Go forth and post!

Just Lambing around ...

Hi all! I'm guest posting over at LambAround today! Come on over! Telling an honest story of my fragile youth...Also want to say THANKS! To the Missy Yankee Girl for the Honest Scrap award! I've got to come up with 10 things to be honest about...1) Honestly... oops - I can't tell you that.
2) My middle child is getting geared up for her first bible camp away from home and parents!!!! 4 days with kids who believe the same way she does. She's going to have an awesome time and make tons of new friends. I'm going to miss her.
3) The HD (heated discussion) of the other day has turned into a low simmer. We'll see what happens by this weekend.
4) I buy a lot of floss these days and keep the floss sticks in my purse, on my desk, in the kitchen, bathroom, you name it... Maybe someday I'll take the time to go to the dentist...
5) I wrecked my sisters LTD once because of a firefly.
6) I broke up with a boy on our 3rd date because of the built up plaque on his teeth. But I didn't tell him that!
7) In highschool, I would buy a cold burrito from the convenience store in the morning, leave it on the dash of my car and it would be piping hot by lunch. I'm surprised I didn't die of food poisoning....
8) I gave my younger sister a haircut and attempted to layer. She ended up looking like Rod Stewart... She wasn't too happy.
9) Same sister. I gave her a perm when her hair was a lot longer. She ended up looking like the cowardly lion... She wasn't too happy. Seems to be a pattern here... If I touch her hair, she's not happy. For the record, I thought the curls were beautiful!
10) I want to be on Project Runway when I grow up.

Ok - So I need to pass this on to 10 bloggers who I think give Honest Scrap. hmm.. I've a lot going on this morning and all you guys are awesome. So if you're honest! and you like to scrap! then please grab it and stick it on your blog compliments of me. *is that a copout?* Oh well.

Have a great day everyone!

Award time!

I was given the Happy 101 award from Mama of 4 over at Once upon a time! Thank you Mama!! What an honor!
Ok - what do I have to do here?...

Oh yeah - post the pic. check.

Thank and link to mama of 4.

check

List 10 things that make me happy... This is a hard one as I JUST blogged on Monday about things that make me smile...

1) the things from the things that make me smile. Should count for about 5, doncha think?
6) The warm fuzzies of things my kids do that make me happy to be their mom. Son, daughter 1, daughter 2.
7) My husband.
8) My God.
9) Comments from my bloggy friends!
10) Getting an award!

Now to pass it on... Out of the hundreds of blogs that I follow (religiously... Christmas, Easter and other times...)

Mimi at Living in France - she cracks me up...
Slugmama at DON'T READ THIS IT'S BORING! - far from boring! She inspires me!
KK at KampKK - I mainly follow just for Carly! I kid... KK is one of the most loyal followers you can have!
Kshotz at Ewe & Eye - SO talented knitter! and my best bud all thru college!
Annie Jones at Real Life Living - One of the very few bloggers I've met so far and her posts make me drool...
Pam at Mom's Mutterings - I can so relate to her and her kids! Plus you can win books there!
A.Marie at My Money Mission Online - another inspirational blog! and a wonderful lady!
Frances at Looking forward - Loyal loyal loyal!!! Frugal inspiration!
SonyaAnn at A Mom, Money and More - a real honest to goodness authoress! And loyal friend.

Oh boy! I hate to offend anyone! I've got so many great and loyal followers and lurkers. If you want this award, please TAKE it! I won't let the blog police know anything about it...

I love reading your blogs and my day wouldn't be complete without it.

It is SEW my day!

McVal's Acceptance Speech for the SITSday Oscar:

Thank you! Oh! Thank you! I can hardly breathe! I feel so lucky! And this statue - it's so heavy! Oh, thank you again! I just want everyone to know that even in my wildest dreams, I never would have fantasized that this could ever validate my mediocrity.

And to the other brilliant nominees, I want each of you to know how totally wonderful your comments make me feel right now! You know when they first told me I was nominated, I just had to take a minute and laugh about how generous my fans have been. I guess it all just makes me feel kinda humbled.

You know, there are so many stalkers to thank! First off though, I want to thank the wonderful ladies of the SITS Academy, who looked deep within their email inbox before giving me this fantastic award! Also, I want to thank God, for being such a powerful force in my life. And to Mom & Dad, who taught me to look in the ordinary and find the extraordinary! And finally, to my crazy kids and husband - I couldn't have done it without you and your antics that give me blog fodder every single day!!!

Thank you America, and good night!

Ok - ok - this WOULD have been my speech if I was at the Academy... Oh - and apparently it can be yours too! I found a brilliant award acceptance speech generator that is kind of like a Mad Lib... Check it out HERE. Some of the options they give you are kind of weird... so please edit...

For those of you that don't know me and don't know why you're here... I'm a wife, mother of 3 teens, keeper of 3 dogs, 3 hedgehogs, any candy and telecommuting computer programmer who loves to sew my spare time. My kids are slowly draining my sanity and are enjoying it. Our dogs are quickly draining my sanity and enjoying it. The hedgehogs.. well - they just smell.
The wonderful ladies over at SITS (The Secret Is In The Sauce) are fabulous! They have built a supporting group of followers that are trained to leave comments wherever they see a SITS button! Go check them out! LOVE YOU SITS GALS! and they are featuring me today!

So to help you get to know me... Here are the supporting cast of this family...
Me My honey! My son... My daughter My other daughter

Our dogs Sorsha Duke Ellie

My sewing projects Tons Tons and more tons. Some made it into giveaways!

Feel free to browse around and get to know me better! Thanks so much for making my day so special!
Have a wonderful day!
Val

We're percolatin', We're percolatin'

During high school, I had a part time job at a little grocery stored owned and managed by old Sid Loe. He couldn't stand to see us just standing at the registers, so whenever he came into the store front area, he'd say, Let's get percolatin'! So we'd go front shelves, shuffle produce, whatever, just to look busy...

Sorry about my bummy post yesterday! It was a rough day and reminiscing about dead pets really doesn't help as much as you'd think...

Pam at Mom's Mutterings gave me something get perked up about tho! She awarded me with...
Also, with this!!
Here's the rules:
• Thank the person who gave this to you. THANKS PAM!!!! You're so sweet!
• Copy the logo and place it on your blog. CHECK
• Link the person who nominated you. CHECK
• Name ten fun facts about yourself. Oh BOY! Let's see if I can do this without repeating things you already know.

1) I get to meet one of my bloggy friends next week IRL!!!!
2) I have a statue of a basset hound on my steps landing. It freaks out the puppy.
3) I used to think it was cool to put my left foot out the window when driving in the summer. The wind felt good between my toes... I was 18... (Maddy - don't you EVER do this!!!)
4) My sisters and I would spy on my oldest sister from my upstairs window when her dates brought her home.
5) I dated a sports news-caster when I was a freshmen in college. He was over 10 years older than me and my parents liked him!!! Boy was THAT a mistake. Dad should have been cleaning his gun when he picked me up.
6) Again in college, I was determined to have my own place.. since I was commuting and talked my parents into letting me have the room above the garage. Not exactly a Fonzy apartment... I'll blog about it sometime...
7) Robb and my first apartment killed the breaker switches whenever the fridge motor and the window air conditioner kicked on at the same time.
8) I have a booth at our local antique mall and am losing money on it currently. Not a fun fact... just a fact. I guess the fun part of that would be they give away free cookies when you go there! Yum!
9) I love Diet Doctor Pepper and thought at one time, before I discovered diet pops, that diet pop tasted like kerosene. It really doesn't anymore.... Improvements in technology, taste buds, whatever...
10) My family used to go to Sandstone, Minnesota every summer to attend our churches vacation bible camp, but the camp closed the year after I turned 8. You could stay in the cabins for girls starting at age 8, so I got to stay in the cabin once that summer anyway... I felt so grown up to be "camping" without my parents! They were in a cabin across the yard.

Ok - I'm supposed to give this to my top 12 most frequent commentors on my blog. I want to give it to all of you, but rules are rules...
Some of you probably were on Pam's list too. So now you have to do 20 fun facts! HA! Pam since you just gave me this award, I won't throw it back to you, but you're one of my most loyal commentors too!

Sonya Ann at A Mom, Money and More
Mimi at Living in France
Kshotz at Ewe & Eye
Colleen at Cheap Wine and Cookies
Southern Gal at Just Me and My Thoughts
Mama Has Spoken at The Mama Has Spoken
Crafty Girls Workshop at Crafty Girls Workshop
Slugmama at DON'T READ THIS! IT'S BORING!
KK at Kamp KK
Dawn at Must Love Tots
Yankee Girl at Adventures of a Yankee Girl
Annie Jones at Real Life Living
Frances at Looking for Deals
Carma at Carma Sez
AMarie at My Money Mission Online

I went over a little more than 12 didn't I? oops... And there are so many more that SHOULD be on this list! If I've missed you, please accept this award! I love you guys!

OH!!! I almost forgot! I also got a package in the mail yesterday from PJ at PJ's prayer line.
This is a great book! I think I'm going to give it as part of our gift to my mother in law for her birthday next week! She'll really like it! Thanks so much PJ!

Ok - now my big love fest portion of the "thank you" blog... You guys are so great and I'm so blessed to have so many virtual "imaginary" friends!

Val McVal!! Come on down!!!!

I don't believe it!!! I got 3 awards in as many days!!! A big "Thank you" and MUhhhAhh! to Mimi, Jenny Mac & HeartNiki!

If Kanye jumps up here, I'll karate chop him!

First off...

Thank you to Mimi (AKA Living in France). She gave me the Creative Blogger award! And I award her the Good Blog award!
Here are the rules...
I do have to tell you 7 things you don't already know about me and nominate 7 other blogs. Since the other awards ask you to say some personal things about yourself, I'm combining them and sticking 10 things here.

1) I took Latin for 2 years in high school and only remember the phrase Magna Sed, because it mean "Big Butt" in the wrong context... I used it a lot on my sisters.
2) I'm a 2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo.
3) My cell phone ring tone is Kylie Minogue's Lucky Lucky Lucky song. (as in... I'm so lucky to get a cell call!)
4) I have a mole on the back of my head and would look pretty stupid bald.
5) I hoard all my kids school pictures and don't give them out... to anyone...
6) I have a dead Venus Fly Trap reciding on a shelf behind me.
7) I have a pickle Christmas tree ornament.
8) I changed 3 light fixtures all by myself and didn't electrocuted once this weekend!
9) I race one of my best friends getting all our Christmas presents purchased each year. I'm terrible because she's just gotten done and I haven't started yet...
10) I raised a hog once and spread some of it's manure on a plant to help it grow. (true story... my mom almost killed me or I wouldn't be here today typing this...)

Whew! That was hard! Now on to the awards! The Kreativ Blogger award goes to... drum roll please....
Kshotz from Ewe & Eye
Ann from Gorgeous Fabrics
Karen from Sewing by the seat of my pants
Trudy from Sewing with Trudy
Leanne at the Old Parsonage
The traveling Slap Dash Sewist
Flat Creek Farm
Britt at a Penny Saved
Claudine at Adventures in the art of sewing
Aimee at A Garden to Remember
Josey Sews
and
The creative gal at Two Cables an' a Frapp...

There are so many creative blogs that I follow, I hate to only limit it to 12, but I do have to keep on going or I'll never get this blog done!

Next is from Jenny Mac at Lets have a cocktail. She gave me the I give good blog award! Hmmm... The rules are simple...

Make a cocktail, pick out some of your favorite bloggers. Send this award to 4 of them. Tell them why you think they give good blog. I love all of you guys! There are SO many fascinating, witty, and fantastic bloggers; I'm not limiting it to 4. Join the party!

SonyaAnn at A Mom, Money & More
Angie's Spot
Bella Dreams
Carma Sez
Cheap Wine and Cookies
Harried Mom of Four
It Really IS, about me!
Jeannette's Journey
Kitchen with Kids
Lenore Nevermore
Mom's Mutterings
Scary Mommy


This last award is from Heart Niki at Mrsratlady. It's the Blog Love award! Here are the rules:

1. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
2. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
3. Name 5 things about yourself that people might not know. ( done up above...)
4. Nominate how ever many Bloggers you think are a good read.
5. Post links to the blogs you nominate.
6. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

For the Blog Love award, I hereby nominate...
HaB at Madeline: The magnificent mayhem maker
A day in the life of a crazed mom
Ampersand
Babes in Hairland
Lorie @ Be Different Act Normal
Eye Heart Mommy
My Four Boys
I am Mommy
Southern Gal
Life with the Lees
Moments in Time
Moments of mommyhood


OOFDA MEG! There are more bloggers out there that I love dearly and follow whenever you post something! And for those that I've missed, I'm sorry I didn't list you here. PLEASE COME BACK! I've got to have SOMEONE to list on my next award if I ever get one!

Thank you all for being my Bloggee friends!

Attitude of Graditude Award

Thank you Liz for the aware of "Attitude of Graditude"! I hope I did this right!

The Rules of Accepting and Sharing this Award

1.Put the logo on your blog or post

2. Nominate at least 10 blogs that show an attitude of gratitude

3. Link to your nominees within your post

4.Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received this award

5.Share the love and link to this post and the person who nominated you for the award.

Tell us how you've come to have an attitude of gratitude

I am grateful for my wonderful, funny, thoughtful husband and three great kids. Each of them are unique in their own special ways that can bring laughter to my heart and tears to my eyes.

I'm sorry - but I'm not grateful for our dogs... They got into mud last night...

I'm grateful that God sent his only Son to live a perfect life on earth for us.

I'm grateful that my carpal tunnel pinky is getting better and I'm able to type with my ring finger again. Pinky is still down for the count.

I'm grateful for all the great friends I've made on blogging. You guys are great and you keep me wondering what you'll all write next. I look forward to your notes every day!

I'm grateful that Kim introduced me to blogspot.

I would like to bestow this award to... Kim, Ciara, Pam, Karen, Texan Mama, Jody, Josie, Omega,Whitestone & Gorgeous Things.

Thanks ladies! I love reading about your lives and challenges! Be it kids, sewing or just anything!