I am humbled!

I am truly humbled by the outpouring of friendship, encouragement, praise, and unconditional help that I have received from all of my blogging friends since that day months ago when I typed “blogging” into the Google search engine to see what this phenomenon was all about.  Never did I think that I would anxiously await emails each day to see what everyone thought of my latest photographic endeavour nor did I anticipate the pleasure I would get out of following other people’s truly amazing blogs.  I know that I have not explored even a minuscule fraction of the blogs on WordPress, but I am so glad that I have found the blogs that I have because they have resulted in a lot of new friendships.

Now, you would think I would get better at this by now, but I am terribly behind on acknowledging awards, and for that I must apologize to the people who awarded me with them.

First, I want to thank Suzanne of http://awindowintothewoods.com/  and Dor of http://countryliving4beginners.wordpress.com/ for both awarding me the Awesome Blog Content Award (ABC Award).  Their blogs are two of my most favourite that I follow on a regular basis, and I’m so happy that they received this award too because they really deserve it.    The rules for the ABC Award are:

• Add the logo to your blog
• Thank the person who nominated you
• Pass the award forward to other worthy bloggers.  There are no limits to how many you can nominate
• Share 26 things about yourself in alphabetical order.

It’s so hard to pick who to give awards to because so many have received them already, and I don’t want to annoy anybody.  Plus, I always feel like I’m leaving out someone amazing. So, with those things in mind, here are the awesome blogs I would like to award with the ABC Award:

• Gary at http://krikitarts.wordpress.com/ for having a fantastic blog and for being so helpful all the time
• Tammy at http://tadams4u.wordpress.com/ for keeping me laughing every day
• Steve at http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/ for helping me learn more about flowers with his stunning wildflower photos
• http://ayearofpics.wordpress.com/ who has the same problem I do – trying to find time to learn about photography while raising a family
• Arnel at http://allthingsboys.wordpress.com/ who I can also relate to because she lives in a house full of teenage boys

Ok, here goes.  I’m now going to try and describe myself using the entire alphabet:

• A – addicted to chocolate
• B – my books are my favourite possessions and I have never thrown any out
• C – many people think I am crazy, and I am proud of it!
• D – very dedicated to my family
• E – tend to be a very emotional person
• F – my favourite genre in literature is fantasy
• G – amateur genealogist
• H – the thing I hate the most is when someone lies to me
• I – intelligent
• J – love to joke around
• K – I have kainotophobia – fear of change
• L – love to laugh
• M – one of my favourite things to do on the weekend is to go to the movies
• N – ok, I admit it, I’m a neat freak
• O – obsessed with organizing things (let’s see if TBM reads this one and makes a crack about it)
• P – pretty easy to get along with (I think – my husband may disagree)
• Q – I’m a quadragenarian (between the ages of 40 and 49)
• R – rock is my favourite type of music
• S – was really, really shy as a child
• T – wish I could travel to a different place in the world every year
• U – unconditional love for my boys
• V – love any books or tv shows to do with vampires (I know, many of you are laughing now)
• W – witty
• X – xanthippe – my husband and son thought they would be funny by suggesting this one. It means ill-tempered woman.  I will go and beat them now!!!
• Y – young at heart
• Z – pretty zany most of the time

Phew, that was really hard!!  So, for my other two awards I am going to cheat and just thank the people who nominated me because my brain is dead now.  I hope you don’t mind.

I want to thank J.G. Burdette at http://jgburdette.wordpress.com/ for awarding me the Versatile Blogger Award.  I love to learn about history, and he never fails to teach me something fascinating from history that I have never heard about before.

Last, I want to thank Dorothy at http://countryliving4beginners.wordpress.com/ from the bottom of my heart for giving me the One Lovely Blog Award.  Dor is one of the sweetest and kindest people I have met since I started blogging, and she has just started a new blog about country life.  She is an excellent writer, and she makes me smile :).

Well, I think I’m up to date now!  Time to clean a couple of bathrooms (yuck), and then I’m going to spend the rest of the afternoon reading about my new camera.  Something you might find interesting is that I actually had to exchange my new toy on Friday night because it absolutely refused to communicate with any computer in my house.  The people at Canon said this was not a common problem at all, and the salespeople at the store had never heard of it happening.  Oh well, everything is fine now, and I really can’t complain because that is the first problem I have ever had with a digital camera that I have purchased, and I have had many cameras.  Have a great day everyone!!