Wow I’m now an award winning blog. I am overwhelmed with appreciation and kindness that I have been shown from other bloggers. I couldn’t have been more touched by their recognition and their generosity.
Award Winning Blog
When you’re a blogger, there are times you start to doubt yourself, wondering if it’s all really worth the frustration, work and care we put into our blogs. Blogging is a solitary thing. We live for those conversations with other’s of a like mind. So we toil in an effort to create a product worthy of others time to read, and then we wait to see how it will be received. Then out of the blue someone gives us an award, and it makes our day. It helps to spur us on, to keep doing what we do. That happened to me in the last week or so. I can’t tell you how much it brightened my day.
I have received the Sunshine Blog, and Versatile Blogger Awards from “searchingforthehappiness“. If that weren’t enough, this same blogger wrote an interview about me on her Friday “Blogger In The Spotlight”. If you haven’t had a chance, take a look and leave a comment while you’re there.
Then I received the Readers Appreciation Award from “Little Box Of Books“. I could hardly contain my excitement. It was just what I needed at that time, and I am still grateful.
These two bloggers are both amazing and an inspiration in their own right, well worth a visit to their blogs.
To pass the torch on, I am to tell you a few things about myself. Some of the things on my list you may already know, some you may not.
- We have hosted 9 foreign exchange students over a number of years. Each were very special and brought much joy and fun into out lives. We are still in contact with of the students. We have watched them grow up, get married and have kids of their own.
- I am dyslexic and struggle with this disability every day.
- I love chocolate. I did say I love chocolate, didn’t I?
- I love my garden and watching things grow. Within my garden, I hear the hum of life, watch the squirrels play, hear the birds sing and hear the hawks screech above.
- I am learning to enjoy having free time. You would think that would be easy, but it has been a serious challenge for an ex-exec who has been responsible for large organizations.
- I love to cook and find great creativity in the kitchen.
- I’m starting to get the hang of my new camera and love taking pictures of my food and everything else for that matter.
The hardest part of this is who to pass on all three of these awards to. It is requested that I send each award to 7 worthy bloggers. The fact is I would like to nominate everyone. But that isn’t possible, it isn’t how it works, so here goes.
For the Reader Appreciation Award I nominate:
- The Southern Northerner
- Break Free
- Project White Space
- Grandmother Diaries
- Catarina’s World
- Bindu Blogs
- The Way I See It: Life, Family & Food
For the Sunshine Award I nominate:
- Crack You Whip
- Project White Space
- Is This Alt Lit?
- Grandmother Diaries
- Bindu Blogs
- City Girl
- Nanny Goats In Panties
For the Versatile Blogger Award I nominate:
- Project White Space
- Break Free
- The Diane Lee Show
- A.K. Andrew – Writer
- Grandmother Diaries
- The Simple Dude
- My Film Journal
To conclude; I found this to be the hardest thing to do. There are so many worthy bloggers out there that are so deserving of these awards and more. In the end, the best thing any one of us can do in the Blogosphere is to support each other. For me, that is leaving and getting comments. The conversations and friendships that develops from that activity is the best award and reward of all.
What have you received from another blogger that made your day and spurred you on? I would love to hear your story.
Life’s journey continues…