Accolades

We are thankful for the recognition given us by other bloggers out there. Dare I say friends? Here are some shiny things and the kickass people who’ve helped us sparkle.

I’m a Scary Mommy but Hollywood thinks that’s OK

I entered a contest over at ScaryMommy.com on a whim and the next thing you know I’m featured on the blog page of a Hollywood movie featuring Uma Thurman! Wow! Feeling the pangs of writer’s block, I welcomed a topic on which to focus. I focused so hard that the floodgates opened and the words rushed in. I even sent my husband to bed without me so I could finish and forgot all about the glass of wine sitting beside my brown leather chair. You should know that I will usually welcome both sleep and wine at all costs. For some reason, however, this piece had to be written. So I did the writing. I worked it out. I linked it up on Jill’s site. And I went to sleep. Round about 5 a.m.—when the iPhone chirped me awake—I blinked three times at all the e-mail in my inbox. Lo and behold, I had won this little blog contest. Thanks go to Jill for sponsoring it, of course, and for recognizing how very frightful I can be. If you please, go read A Very Wealthy Life on our site, or over at the Motherhood film blog.

Zombie Chicken Award

This award gets points for clearly having the most creative (and creepy) title. Here’s a description of its merit: The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken—excellence, grace and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words.
The award came from Liz at But Then I Had Kids. While I am appreciative of zombie chickens and incredibly respectful of the Tao, we have a gratitude for Liz that extends way beyond bloggy bling. She has become part of our sisterhood here. A woman who clearly understands what we write and why we write it. She comes back over and over to read of our good and our bad, and she always always always leaves her very valued perspective. Go read her. Now. Show her some love and comment. I’d mention her here whether or not there were zombie chickens, because part of this page is about giving back. And that takes more than just a blogroll or link list.

Five Star Friday x 3

Jen wrote about tolerance and acceptance in Looking Beyond the Look(s). Some lovely person out there nominated this piece for Schmutzie’s Five Star Friday Edition #71. Posts are nominated to appear on Five Star Friday by all the readers out there, and they remain anonymous. Maybe they were inspired by this line: “Becoming a mother has linked me with all mothers. All mothers. No matter their philosophies on parenting. Or the conditions in which they are raising their children.” Or maybe it was this one: “I give everyone the benefit of the doubt a little bit more these post-mom days. Because I realize, I just don’t know what anyone else’s life is like.”

I wrote about connections in a piece called, well, Connections. Some other lovely person nominated this piece for Schmutzie’s Five Star Friday Edition #77. Quite simply I believe that we are all here on earth to interact with the people around us. We are all connected and we are meant to form and foster these connections. Honestly, I’m still trying to find a way to convey all that this means to me, but this is a start. And in the meantime, I’m able to relish in all the connections I have made thus far by creating this site and engaging in this virtual community.

Fathers and Sons was the topic of our third Five Star Friday post. It was featured in Edition #79 and a topic near and dear to me now that I have three sons. One that I struggle with as I yearn for a daughter, but one that I recognize for it’s strength and its meaning. Go take a peek. We are honored, as always, to be acknowledged by our peers for Five Star Friday.

Best Blog Award

Ursula over at Rocky Mountain Memoirs passed along a Best Blog Award. It’s a sweet kind of thing to be recognized by your fellow bloggers, isn’t it? So many of us fit the blog into our already busy lives. We do our best to keep it updated while continuing to check in on one another. It’s a happy treat to receive these accolades for words that often feel slapped together. Words we hope are at least coherent when we click “publish.” It’s an honor when others find them so relatable.

Top Marks for Poetry

Teacher Mommy over at Diapers and Dragons gave me a top marks badge for a little piece of poetry about the annoyance of waking up in the morning. If I’m not allowed to stay in my perfect bed cloud, please let mama have three sips of coffee before you kids require any more than a flip of the light switch. Thanks Teacher Mommy, for recognizing this little rant – poem style.

One Lovely Blog Award

Thanks to Amy from ThoughtfulParent.com for bestowing upon us the first award. Though it’s rather an ugly little thing I’ll let that slide merely because of the use of “lovely.” What a wonderfully old-fashioned word. I long for a day when my husband says, “Well don’t you look lovely tonight, my dear,” as he hands me a teacup filled with roses and whisks me off to Rome.

Beautiful Blogger Award

Maria from Mother Of Three Seeks Sanity bestowed upon us this Beautiful Blogger Award. I do think it is one of the prettiest award making the circuit. Thank you, Maria! Honored, really.