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
- 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!!
Congrats on the awards Cindy. I still haven’t finished the “requirements” for accepting the Versatile Blogger award I received a month or so ago. I don’t know how people find the time. And you just got three!! You are going to be one busy lady!
I definitely have a hard time keeping up with my blog in general. It seems to have taken over my life, but don’t get me wrong, I am really enjoying it!! However, that’s why I only did the requirements for one of the three awards, so I kind of cheated. I can only follow so many blogs at a time, and I don’t want to annoy people by giving them the same award more than once. Don’t you wish there were more hours in a day?
I’ve decide to graciously decline any further nominations. While I am truly grateful that someone enjoys my blog enough to nominate me, I just don’t have enough time to honor the commitments that go with accepting.
You deserve each and everyone of them. Congrats to you!
And I’m a she 😉
Oops, sorry about that. Sometimes it’s really hard to tell on these blogs. Thanks for enlightening me :).
That’s all right, it happens to me often 🙂 I think it’s because I use my initials,
Congrats and Thanks!! Love the ABCs of you that you did..
Thanks buddy! Those ABC’s were really hard you know. My hubby, my oldest son and his girlfriend all sat together with me last night trying to figure out what to put. The males kept wanting me to put mean stuff though. Thanks goodness, Cayley was there to be on my side! 🙂
ahh, it even created a little family bonding…. 😀
Yes, it actually did, my family’s favourite type of bonding – the pick on Mom kind 🙂
Congrats on all the lovely awards Cindy!! Every single one of them very well-deserved!! 🙂 **
Awww, you are too kind. Thanks Xandre 🙂
You are soooo welcome Cindy and any award you receive is well deserved!
🙂
Congrats Cindy!
Thanks 🙂