Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts

Blessed to have bloggy friends... new awards for AB

I am so blessed to have great bloggy friends who think highly enough of Acting Balanced to share their hard earned awards with me...

This week, I received the:



Now on to the rules!

1 - Post who gave you this award.
2 - Name 10 things you like.
3 - Give this award to 10 other people and notify them with a comment.

10 things I like... 

1. Getting a good night's sleep... 
not happening lately, but hey, it gives me more time to blog ;)

2. Reading a good book!  
I am blessed to have a huge reading list for review right now - you can get in on some of it by entering my two book giveaways!

3. Getting a good night's sleep... 
did I mention that one yet?  

4. Wonderful blog friends who share awards :)

5. Butter Pecan ice cream

6. My one bad for me passion... Crunchie Bars from Canada... 
Especially since I am allergic to chocolate... but as a once in a while indulgence, I just live with the consequences... chocolate covered sponge toffee... yum!

7. Volunteering at my daughter's school

8. Hanging out at the pool with my kids

9. Getting together with my mommy friends for adult conversations

10. The fact that I only have about 6 weeks until I meet Ach Baby in person!



I received this one from Inspired Moments
  • Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
  • Share 7 things about yourself
  • Pass the award along to 15 other bloggers who you recently discovered and think are fabulous.
  • Contact the bloggers you chose and let them know about the award.
Seven things about me

1. I recently started getting my hair cut... I had gone several years without, and was tired of having cave girl hair, so I chopped it all off... the only problem is that I remember why I grew it out... it grows SO fast!  Luckily I found a great place to get it cut inexpensively... watch for my review, coming soon :)

2. I am actively seeking sponsors and giveaways for this blog... I have several events coming up and would love to feature Esty artists and fellow bloggers work if you want to do giveaways!

3. I am awake at 3 am again... thanks Ach baby for the heartburn/reflux... 
you'd better have a head full of hair when I meet you :)

4. I am worried about how Liam will handle me being in hospital for 2 days with his new brother...
 it's been a long time since I was away from him that long.

5. My postal worker must be either thanking goodness that I'm keeping her employed or cursing me a blue streak, because she filled my mailbox and TWO parcel compartments with all the goodies I have to review for AB in the next few months yesterday :)

6. I have a wonderful and generous hubby who is putting up with a whole lot from me... I may not be PMS'ing for 9 months, but this pregnancy has had its challenges...and he's been a great sport

7. Speaking of hubby, he's not really big into blog awards and all that stuff... but I want to give him a shout out... in the midst of the chaos I've created and his demanding job... he's started blogging at www.waynewsmith.com (please visit and give him some bloggy love)


received from He is my Beloved

The rules...
1. Accept the award. Post it on your blog with the name of the person who has 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.

Now, if I add all of that up, I can give blog awards to 37 people... but I'm going to be a bad bloggy friend and end the line here this week... It's 3:21 am and the tums have finally taken the edge off my heart burn... 
so I'm heading back to bed right now...
If you'd like to be the recipient of one or all of these awards, just leave me a comment and I will happily link to you in this post when I get some time later this morning :)

Thanks again to Kat from Kat's Confessions, Tisha from Inspired Moments and Mel from He's My Beloved for sharing these award with me

And I want to thank...

Heather from Out of the Box Into the Kitchen for my latest award! She has given me the

You can read all about my responsibilities and the origins of the award here, but the main task I have is to share this with 7 fellow bloggers and of course to let them know they've won the award :)

So without further ado, I share this with seven wonderful bloggers that you should definitely check out:

Serene is my name, Not my life...
The Versatile Investor (Yes this is my brother, but if you can't plug for family, who can you plug for)
The Skinny Fight
The Thought Bubble
Sugar Tails
A Diary of Lovely
Blue White Life

I hope you will take the time to visit these wonderful and diverse blogs and share some bloggy love today!

Yay for Blog friends!

I am humbled to say that AB has won two more awards:

comes from my friend and recent guest poster: Outnumbered Mama from The Busy Woman's Guide to Surviving Motherhood

As with all blogs, this one comes with strings... and an opportunity to showcase some new bloggy friends I have made in the past few weeks!

Rules: Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

So without further ado, here are my nominees for the Lovely Blogger award in no particular order:


Poohbear and Mommy 
Kelley's Family Jewels
Mommy Living the Life of Riley
The Sporadic Cook
Serene Designs
Life of a Modern Mom
The Bird Nest
Finding the Pot of Gold 
House of Hepworths
Creative Attempts
Theme a Party
Living Proof that God has a Sense of Humor
The Attic Girl
Deb's Here
Moving on from the Drama
To Be Thode
Life Happens During Naptime




I also received the Stiletto Award from The Husailey Bunch
Please go and read about the Stiletto Award Here
and am required to share it with 5-10 excellent bloggers, and while all of my new bloggy friends above also qualify for this award, I wanted to tap a few more friends too, so my nominees for this award are:


Out of the box and into the Kitchen
The Snyder 5
The Busy Woman's Guide to Surviving Motherhood
Becoming Homegrown
Hallee the Homemaker
Angie Mizzel







2nd award...

Same as the first...

I want to thank my friend Sherri at MissIndyBabbles for re-nominiating me for the sunshine award, after I had given it to her... I was going to ignore it, but then I got to thinking about how hard it was to get all the blogs I read down to a group of twelve, so I've decided to devote another day to sharing SUNSHINE with friends and fellow bloggers and introduce you to twelve more fabulous bloggy friends... who you should visit and tell them I sent you :)
Many of these blog friends I have met through a great web connection blog called SITS (the Secret is In The Sauce)- I would nominate them for an award such as this, but they do such a good job of spotlighting blogs and letting us connect with each other that it would probably not be prudent for them to have to choose only twelve, so instead I am featuring twelve new bloggy friends that I have met through SITS and have visited my blog recently so that I could meet them :)

These are the rules I must oblige by in order to pass it on:

- Put the logo on your blog or within your post.
- Pass the award onto 12 bloggers.
- Link the nominees within your post.
- Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
- Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

Here are my nominees, in no particular order....

JDaniel4's Mom - a mom and former teacher who is also a transplant to South Carolina :).  She has great contests and info on her site, and I found a great world math day post there yesterday :)

B Sparkly - a neat mix of family commentary, product reviews and even samples of things she sells on her esty store.

Blue and White Life - another regular commenter on my blog :) thank you!  Her blog is another wonderful mix of personal anecdotes :)

From My Kitchen to Yours - Jamie is also trying to live on a weekly budget and posts her menus!  She also has neat stories about other things going on in her busy life!

Diary of Me... Jeannie, Jane, Angel, Mommy - the name says it all :)

An Unpink Life -great ideas, tips and commentary!

Circle Rice - lots going on in this lady's life - we met in the blog world over having family with Alzheimer's Disease... not the most positive way to meet but glad we found each other's blogs

Random Musings from a Single Gal - Yes, I do actually read blogs that don't involve mommy things... and since her most recent post lamented on how she could only give out 7 awards on her last blog award... I'm going to make her stretch and find 12 more :)

Airing my Dirty Laundry, One Sock at a time - you just have to read THIS Post!

Theta Mom - she has great insights into blogging and has built a great following - so in awe ... and her latest post while I was writing was THIS - so apropos :)

Spirit of Power - Keri blogs about her life, good recipes and more

Becoming Homegrown - Another wonderful blogger... I love reading her recipe reviews like this one

I hope that this award finds all these women happily blogging and you find some new blogs to read!