From BRENDA
Writer and publisher of friendly fairy tales for kids of all ages, illustrated with garden photos and by collaboration with other artists and photographers.
at friendlyfairytales
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You Are A Miracle Blogger Award
This is from Brenda: Caregivers aren’t perfect. We all make mistakes, but there we are, day in and day out, helping protect and raise the next generation. I celebrate all of you! You are all miracles! Today I’m granting the You are a Miracle Blogger Award to some good blogger friends who are there for their children and/or grandchildren. I hope you will check them out, they rock
my nominations:
Raising 5 Kids With Disabilities and Remaining Sane Blog
SO MUCH TO SAY, SO LITTLE TIME
A Gift FrOM THE BEAUTIFUL LOTUS FLOWER Blog
the best moments awards – captured in time
thank-you
Awarding the people who live in the moment, The noble who write and capture the best in life, The bold who reminded us what really mattered – Savoring the experience of quality time.
RULES: Winners re-post this completely with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video recorded. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awardees! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and winners notify them the great news. RESOURCES:
- What makes a good acceptance speech?
- Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way
- Humor. Keep us entertained and smiling
- Inspiration. Make your story touch our lives
- Get an idea from the great acceptance speeches, compiled in MomentMatters.com/Speech
- Display the award’s badge on your blog/website, downloadable in MomentMatters.com/Award
For the Best Moment Award I have to write an acceptance speech! I am forever grateful to blogging and the many other writers and readers for welcoming me into a vibrant world of blogging. Blogging thawed out my writing skills. Somehow I heard about the existence of blogs, blogging sites and blogging directories and I snapped to attention. Suddenly, I was thinking up a username, a title for a blog, looking at templates and design and layout. All these activities loosened up my creativity while I sat typing It was like an invisible barrier slowly melted, allowing my imagination to bubble up in a stream of written words that felt just as exhilarating as my oral tradition. I was excited to start sharing written stories with other people, people who would read them, respond, comment and give me feed back on what I had written. Within weeks, I was no longer an island but part of a community of other writers who had the very same insecurities and problems as I did.
best moment nominees
From New Things
The Sunshine Award
The Questions:
Favorite colour?Blue
sunshine blogs
Looking for reasoning to a complicated world
MissesC
from Shaun
I AM FROM SCOTLAND, MY NAME IS SHAUN, HI
Looking for reasoning to a complicated world
Blogging random stuff, I love to debate, I love to laugh, I love to live, I love to love. Be nice.
3 Awards to give out
Rules from Shaun are simple, I nominate 10 people, then so do you, put the Awards up like I did and thank the person who gave you the Awards, 3 Awards
Black. Bunched. Mass. Mom.
Wow, I am so happy you accepted the You are a Miracle Blogger Award with such style and verve!! I love what you did in your posting. Congrats on all the very much deserved awards! I so appreciate your naming friendlyfairytales with such amazing grace and color, heartfelt thank yous!
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you won another award if you want it
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Right, and I forgot to thank you for it because my hubby needed something. Sorry about that! Thanks so much for making the sun shine again on friendlyfairytales!! I will mention it in my next award posting. I have one partially drafted, but I want to make a new video with music played by my kids, and they are still working on learning to play it together. I hope to have that all ready by the weekend, but we’ll see — last week before school starts!! Woo-hoo!!
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are you canadian? the southern state seemded to start school weeks ago
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I know, but us Northerns are backward. 🙂 I live in NE, and up here we start after labor day.
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just like us
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Are you Canadian? I grew up in Rochester NY, not far from the line. 🙂
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I live near the St. Lawrence River outside a hamlet, on 7 acres in a 1881 home
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Oh, that sounds divine. Gorgeous. And cold. I remember very cold winters on the great lakes, kissing cousins with the St. L.
1881. That’s recent enough to have level floors and straight walls. 7 acres, that’s a lot to care for. You must work pretty hard. Oh, the gardens I could have with 7 acres. Sigh of momentary pleasure and longing.
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I have meandering gardens
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Longer, slower sigh of imagined pleasure. 🙂
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🙂 i must do a phot post of our gardens
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Great plan!! Maybe one with flowers and one with snow… Sign me up to take a peek. 🙂
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ha snow, snow and more snow,yes, I can do that
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I thought so… 🙂
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🙂
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Another moment to remember. Congratulations and thank for gifting it to us.
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Congratulations Melanie. You’re a hard worker and deserve these awards.
Thank you for nominating me.
God bless you, and here’s to more success.
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Congratulations on receiving these awards, Melanie, and thank you so much for the nomination, I appreciate it.
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You deserve these and then some. I have missed being here; lots of treasure hunting to do. xo Thank you for thinking of me. This award is particularly meaningful, miracles, yes, all around me. xo
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I knew you would like the miracle award
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Thank you…
All paid forward ..x
http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/the-sunshine-award/
Hugs
Shaun x
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🙂
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😛
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I am so delighted to see how many people think that you are a GREAT blogger/writer. I am very thankful for you sharing freely from your experience, love and wit.
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now i am tearing up.. a humble thank-you
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Congrats friend! These are all truly deserved awards – it makes me joyful seeing them go to such a special soul.
All my best,
Wiley
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your next friend
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😉
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Thank you Melanie!! You are so kind! God bless.
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Thank you Melanie 🙂 I’ve been getting a kid off to college and another prepared for the end of summer and start of a new school year, so not as “bloggy” as usual, hence the few days it took for me to acknowledge! Thank you for the nomination of such a cool award! And congratulations on your well deserved awards! 🙂
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Thank you Melanie for the nomination. And congratulations too! 🙂
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my pleasure..love your writing
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Wow, beautiful awards. Thank you, I am honored.
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Finally got my thank you award posting ready and up. You’ll find it here: http://friendlyfairytales.com/2013/08/28/my-cup-runneth-over/ Thanks again for the nomination. 🙂
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Thank you for the nomination. It is greatly appreciated. I feel so humbled by the great postings and insights of the many Christian bloggers I follow.
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me too
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thank you for my ‘Sunshine’ 🙂
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🙂
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Very impressive Melanie! Congratulations on all your awards! You’re very deserving of them. I hope you’re having a great day. 😀
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thank-you for your support and kindness
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