I've Been Nominated Again......Thank You!

AJ from One Part Joy One Part Circus and Renee from Blissful Days Ahead nominated me for a Liebster Award. What a lovely honor it is to be recognized by fellow bloggers as an up and coming blog.  Here is a little more information about the Liebster Award from a previous award that I received.

The rules are the same from both of them: 

• Tell 11 things about yourself.
• Answer 11 questions posed by the nominating blogger.
• Nominate 11 new bloggers. 
• Ask those bloggers 11 questions that they will answer.

11 Things About Me:
1. I still do not have a personal Facebook page.
2. My favorite dessert is Cheesecake.
3. Because I have ADD, I am a walking oxymoron.  This documentary makes me feel normal.
4. I didn't want to be a stay-at-home mom until I saw my daughter for the first time.
5. I like writing a blog about products made in the USA.
6. I like addressing people in my blog and their blogs / websites by their names. 
7. I like using the phrase "member of our community" instead of "follower."  I like to think that this is like a {virtual} get-together and everyone is welcome to this community of fabulous minds.
8. I enjoy the weekly blog hop that I Co-Host because I get to read wonderful blogs every week and enjoy seeing people return week after week.
9. I like food.  All discussions lead to food.  That virtual dinner table is what unites us all.
10. Our wedding cake consisted of cupcakes in the shape and color of Tiffany boxes.
11. I was allergic to chocolate as a kid and only found out that I wasn't allergic anymore right before getting pregnant with my second daughter.

11 questions from AJ @One Part Joy One Part Circus to ME:
1. Best thing that happened to you in the last year?
My husband got better.  He was on medical leave for 6 mos.
2. Chocolate or Vanilla?
Chocolate - I have a lifetime of making up.
3. Coffee or Tea?
Unmistakably COFFEE - decaf.  I am super ultra mega sensitive to caffeine.
4. Why do you love blogging?
It gives me a sense of purpose and it allows me the opportunity to raise awareness.
5. What would your dream job be?
Mommy.  I never thought I would be able to get pregnant so to have been to do it has been a blessing I never expected.
6.  Would you rather eat a bag of Cheetos or a bag of Sun-chips?
Sun Chips THEN Cheetos
7.  If money (and spousal opinions) was no object, how many children would you have/adopt?
5 or 6
8. If you had to live somewhere other than where you live, where would you move to??
Anywhere, as long as my husband and kids are with me
9.  Would you rather visit New York City or San Francisco? Why?
San Francisco - I've already been to NYC.
10. Would you go to prison for something you believe in?
I don't know of anything yet that I believe in that strongly.
11. What is your favorite song this month?
Christmas carols - all of them - I love it!

11 Questions from Renee @Blissful Days Ahead for ME to Answer:

1. What is your favorite thing about blogging?

It gives me a sense of purpose and it allows me the opportunity to raise awareness. 

2. What is your favorite thing about yourself?

I am a genuine person.
3. If you could have a super power what would it be?

I have it - I gave birth to two girls naturally!
4. What state do you live in?
5. What is your favorite childhood memory?

Anything that has to do with my grandparents and being at their house, especially when they had their friends over and the family was together
6. What is your biggest fear?

That's the title of my favorite quote.
7. If you could go on vacation anywhere, where would it be?

I'd go RV'ing across the U.S.
8. What is your favorite color? 

Blue
9. What is your favorite food?

Anything that someone else made
10. Do you do anything crafty? Tell us about it.

I'm not crafty at all.  I would like to be, but I am not.  I bake.  I once made the US flag out of cupcakes for a 4th of July party.  Does that count?
11. Name the top 5 things on your bucket list.

Go RV'ing across the U.S.

Get my nursing license.

Own a house outright.

I can't really think of anything else.  I'm sure as soon as I click Publish, the rest will come to me.

 My 11 Nominees:

1. Lucy @Design Fluff 

2. Bonny @The Domesticated Princess

3. The Sadder But Wiser Girl 

4. Jamie @ChatterBlossom (She has just over 200 followers, but she was kind enough to participate in our blog hop and leave a comment on last week's blog hop so thank you.)

5. Paula @Hopeful Future

6. Phylicia @Hearts & Crafts Boutique

7. Ana @The Lost Apron 

8. Heidi @Typative Mama Cat

9. Meredith @The Laundry Can Wait (Love the new title - it's my mantra some days.)

10. Leslie @The Memory Nest

11. My fellow Thumping Thursdays Blog Hop Co-Host: Megan @Ephesians 5:33 Wife Congratulations on reaching 200 GFC Followers!

These blogs have all commented on my blog recently and for that I am thankful.
 

Here are the 11 Questions From Me to the Nominees:

1. What's the cheesiest thing that makes you laugh?

Duck from Word World (PBS cartoon) or 80s music

2. If you were coming to my house for Sunday dinner, what's an item you would like to see on the menu?

Dippy sauce - I love to dip my food.

3. What is your favorite beauty product?

Facial mask and moisturizer

4. Are you a saver or spender?

Saver

5. Name something that you recently purchased that was made in the USA.

Coloring books for my daughters

6. Age gracefully or Refuse to age (ie, nip/tuck)?

Age gracefully

7. Do you have a favorite Bible verse?  If so, what is it?

Proverbs 31, but any one that gives me direction for my issue at the time

8. What are you looking forward to the most this holiday season?

Watching the joy that this time brings to people's hearts

9. What is/are your New Year's Resolution(s)?

Ironically, I usually don't make New Year's resolutions, per se.  I just try to improve whatever I feel needs improvement when the thought occurs to me.

10. What kind of music do you listen to?

These days: Christmas carols.  Usually, it depends on my mood - I literally listen to just about every genre of music, even classical.  It helps slow down my brain.

11. Do you have a favorite charity?  If so, what is it or what/who does it serve?

I used to volunteer for Junior Achievement, so anything that educates kids.  I would like to do that again.  I also volunteered at the local "home" where patients' families would stay when they were in the hospital.  The home was designed to look like an old Victorian house that was converted - kind of like a bed and breakfast.  I also help support a local no-kill animal shelter.

 

Rules for the nominees:  I'll make it a little simpler.

• Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog.
• Tell 5 things about yourself.
• Answer 11 questions posed by the nominating blogger.
• Nominate 5 new up and coming bloggers.
• Ask those bloggers 5 questions that they will answer.

Karina
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It's An Honor Being Nominated

Katie from Life in the Simple Lane nominated me for the Liebster Award.  How humbling to receive acknowledgement from a fellow blogger. 

As is my nature, I wanted to know more about this award.  Apparently I am not the only one.  Several searches show blog post comments similar to this one - that no one knows how this originated.  I found this blog post on another blog.  The post was in German, but I posted the translation from Google Translator - it's not exact, but you get the point.

So here are the instructions:
You have been tagged and want to participate?
Create a post by you post the Love Blog image and the instructions reinkopierst (= the text you're reading). You should also link to the blog of the person who gave you the award and inform them by Kommetar in her blog that you leave out the award annimst & her the link of your posts Award. Then you are thinking about you 3-5 favorite blogs that you ebefalls in your post verlinkst & the respective owners by Kommetar - function will inform that they have been tagged and here ebfalls putting its link to the post, where the declaration is. Love Bloggerinen: The aim of this action is that we bring unknown, Gutte blogs to light, so I would you ask any blogs to items that already have been 3,000 readers, but talented beginners and people that although blogging been a while but still not as well known.

I give this award to continue:

http://holyswelt.blogspot.com/

http://itsatinkworld.blogspot.com/

http://justnowandthen.blogspot.com/

and even if it has already received it and they gave it to me and get my Love Aylin awarded him back again:

http://lovestruck64.blogspot.com/

THANK YOU AGAIN THANKS AYLIN!

The rules have changed since that blog post.  It started out by passing it along to 3-5 bloggers who had less than 3000 followers.

As for my Liebster Award, here are the rules Katie has set forth.   

Thank your nominator and link back to the nominator's blog in your post (I also linked the picture back to my nominator - I read that you are supposed to do that too as a courtesy.), list 11 random facts about yourself, answer 11 random questions posted by the nominator, create 11 questions for your nominees (you will answer these questions as well), and nominate 11 other fabulous up and coming blogs with less than 200 followers for the Liebster Blog Award.

Questions from my nominator, Katie @Life in the Simple Lane: 

1. What is the most hilarious thing that has ever happened to you? My husband thought I left him at the altar.  Here's the story: As every good bride, I scheduled my wedding day so everything would run smoothly, time-wise.  My hair and makeup appointments went just as planned.  I'm doing great on time, so far.  I got dressed in my friend's hotel room.  My dress was an easy one to get on.  Slipped on the shoes.  I was good to go.  I waited for my sister and my long-time friend to get ready.  Then my sister had to get my niece ready.  We took some pictures.  We took a bit longer during this last stop than I had planned.  Because we were running behind we threw everything in a bag and threw the bag in the back of my sister's car.  I forgot to call my then-fiance to let him know we were running late.  Half-way to my wedding destination, I hear my phone ring.  That one stops.  Then I hear my sister's phone ring.  The rings alternate.  Then we hear the text message ring tones and those alternate.  I was 45 minutes late to my own wedding.  (* A side note to that story: Apparently, I was allergic to the lipstick that was used for my makeup.  The next morning, my lips were very swollen.  I already have full lips, so you can imagine what I looked like, but my hair was intact.)   
2. What is your favorite movie from childhood? Still my favorite It's A Wonderful Life 
3. What is your favorite childhood memory? Anything that has to do with my grandparents and being at their house, especially when they had their friends over and the family was together 
4. What is your favorite dessert? Cheesecake
5. What is your favorite TV series of all time? Law & Order & I Love Lucy {I'm a Vita-Meata-Vegamin girl.  This is the best video I could find, in case you're wondering.}
6. Cat's or Dog's? Dogs - I was allergic to cats as a kid so I didn't grow to love them like I love dogs 
7. Hamsters or Mules? Mules
8. What do you hope will be under the tree for you this Christmas? A Christmas tree skirt - our [late] Dobie ate ours a few years back and we haven't replaced it since 
9. What is your best friends name? Husband person 
10. Do you own an Esty shop, and if so what is the URL so we can check it out? I own one, but have never gotten it up and running
11. Can you touch your tongue to your nose? Not even close.

11 Random Facts About Me:

1. I'm Catholic.
2. I have always wanted to own a cash register, preferably vintage.  (I think it has to do with the fact that when I was a kid I wanted to own my own store.  My sister and I played store and I had one of those plastic pretend cash registers.  I guess it stayed with me.)
3. Our second daughter was born in a birthing center.  I would recommend it to anyone {if you can do it medically, mentally, and physically of course}
4. My husband didn't know how tall {or how much shorter than him} I really was until I was laid off from my job and didn't wear heels as often.
5. I have A.D.D. - the clinical kind, not the punchline kind.
6. I do not have a personal Facebook page. {I'm the one.}
7. I love to exercise, but don't do it like I should. {See #4.}
8. Baking relaxes me.
9. I love cloth diapers.
10. I love to wear colors and dresses.
11. I genuinely care about people and have been told that I live like I wear rose-colored glasses.  (I think it's the A.D.D. - I just don't notice certain things and that's fine by me.)

11 Questions for my nominees:

1. How did you come up with your blog design? I like simplicity.  I like blue and I liked the banner, but lately I have considered changing the design slightly.
2. What types of pets do you have/want?  I have a dog.
3. Who was your favorite teacher? My speech teacher from my freshman year in college - that class was the beginning of me coming out of my shell.  Also, Mr. Baldwin - my high school history teacher. He encouraged us to write better papers.  He let us know teachers got bored too.
4. What is your favorite quote? What is Your Deepest Fear? from the movie Coach Carter.  Here's a YouTube video.
5. Do you prefer to shop in store or online? I prefer online, but do more in-store.
6. What is your favorite family tradition?  Our fake Christmas tree.  It was our first Christmas together.  My grandfather passed away just before Christmas and I did not want to decorate for Christmas.  On Dec. 23 of that year my husband decided it was Christmas and we were going to decorate.  We went to the store and we bought their last tree and scrapped together what decorations they had.  We forgot to get hooks for the balls so we hung everything from sewing thread.  The next morning there were 3 balls on the tree.  It looked like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.
7. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? I would go RV'ing across the country.
8. What is your favorite comfort food? Anything somebody else made
9. How would you fill your time if you didn't blog? I'd probably have more time to study for my nursing boards.  That's a harsh reality.
10. What is your favorite car (owned or would like to own)?  A Corvette.  My husband tried to sell me on the fact that he bought it for me, but he really bought it for himself.  It really is a nice ride if you ever get a chance to ride in one.  {BTW: They are Made in the USA - Bowling Green, KY on Corvette Drive, no less.}  I like cars.
11. Where are you sitting as you write this?  Dining table

Here are my nominees:

Mariely @Sensational Creations

Jill @And Life Goes On

Sarah @Zoe's Lunchbox

Crystal @Brown Sista Crista

Carrie @In The Sweet Sunshine

Marci @Life With Joys

Mama Harris @From the Kitchen of Mama Harris

Susan @A Vintage Farmwife

 

I'm going to change the rules a bit.  Thank your nominator and link back to the nominator's blog in your post.  Answer 11 random questions posted by the nominator.  List 5 random facts about yourself.  Create 5 questions for your nominees (you will answer these questions as well), and nominate 5 other fabulous up and coming blogs with less than 200 followers for the Liebster Blog Award.

 

Karina

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