One Lovely Blog Award

A Texas-sized thank-you to Monica from Discover Their Gifts and Jenna from Sugar, Spice, and Monkey Tails for awarding me the One Lovely Blog Award.

Here are the rules for accepting the award:

1. Accept the award. Post it on your blog with the name of the person who granted the award and his or her blog link.
2. Pay it forward to 15 other bloggers that you have newly discovered.
3. Contact those blog owners and let them know they've been chosen.
4. ***See the note at the end of this post!***

Soooooo . . . without further ado, here are 15 people whose blogs I have enjoyed keeping up with lately!  Some of them are real-life friends, others are "new friends" I've made in the blogosphere, and the rest may not even know that I've been getting a glimpse into their lives!  Hopefully you'll be entertained and enlightened as you read their posts.  And who knows?!  Maybe you'll even walk away with a new friend or two!

1.  Cajunrose at Homeschool Happenings
2.  Helen at Adventures at Rowan Court Academy
3.  Heather at Goggles & Grace
4.  Randie at A Moment in My Father's World
5. Angela at My Classical Homeschool
6. Lissa at Blessings
7. Ashley at My Magillah
8.  Tonia at The Sunny Patch
9.  Amy at Hope is the Word
10. Candace at Growing with the Greniers
11.  Little Sparrow Academy
12. Heather at This Side Up
13. Kimberly at Quiet My Soul
14.  Laura at Mine Ebenezer
15.  Rachel at Rachel's Reflections

***If you don't have time to pass this blog award on (and, really, who has extra time they're just looking to fill?!), please know that a horrible virus will not infect your computer, a beloved family member will not get sick with a terrible disease, and bad luck will not follow you for thirteen days.  You can just accept the award and know that someone out there in bloggy-land enjoys your posts and appreciates the time you take to journal your life and share it with the rest of us!

You Like Me . . . You Really Like Me!

Okay . . . perhaps that's a little dramatic, but I was surprised when Jenna at Sugar, Spice & Monkey Tales gave me my very first blog award today!  (And here I thought it was just me and my mom who read this thing!)  I am touched and flattered and, quite frankly, grinning ear to ear!  So . . . wanna see it?  Good!  Because I wanna show it to you!

Ta-daaaah!  Thanks, Jenna, for putting a spring in my step and a smile on my face!