Spreading the Love...

Eeep! I feel loved...


The award states: "These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."


Cute huh!? Considering I'm feeling particularly "friendless" (in real life, which I suppose could be a post of it's own) these days, this was a really nice award to receive from Holli. Holli was on my birth board with me when I was pregnant with Eli and she was pregnant with Brenna. Her step-daughter and I both have sons born in October of '05 and during a birthday exchange we were paired up with them so Rylan sent gifts to Holli's grandson. Small world huh? I have met life-long friends on-line in fact, I've even blogged about it before and it's great to know that I might have said some thing, any thing, that might have helped someone else.

There are others out there who have done the same for me, so my nominations are, in alphabetical order:

Angela... a sister who is always on my mind and she even posted a new entry today!!! She's a busy momma but not to busy to send me text messages to my inbox (goodness knows she's probably sitting in traffic at the time) that just say "I'm thinking of you!"

Brooke... my "sister" in Australia. We love each other exactly the way we are and she's one of those that I can always turn to late at night since she's up and running!

Kara... she has been a bit quiet on the blogging front but that's because she's trying to experience the true joy of expecting her rainbow baby and I couldn't be happier for her. She constantly checks in with me though and we seem to keep each other grounded in our faith.

Kaylee... she never fails to say just the right words at just the right time. I know that God brought her back into my life to help me through these times.

Lacey... you know I love you and seriously girl... you need to update your blog because I've seen your purse, and that's not the one you're using anymore! Thank you SO much for flying half-way across the globe, at the drop of a hat, to be with me.

Lauren... I know we are constantly in your prayers. Her sweet baby boy was born just weeks after Eli was due. I try not to count though and love his cuteness just for who he is without trying to see where Eli would be.

Liz... because without you and your input, I have no idea what I would have done after Eli's heart stopped.

Shannon... she's had a really rough year grieving the loss of her son, Tristan. Her blog holds raw emotion but even at her most vulnerable, she would find moments to ask how things are going or send me silly or sweet e-mails. I'm wishing that 2009 brings her everything that she could dream for!

I'm not going to run off to your blogs and tag you. If you're reading and you'd like to play along go ahead and snag the stuff at the top and have at it!

And my M to the north, I'd have nominated you too for your wonderful way of making me laugh? every. single. day. But, since you said you're not into blogging for the awards... pssst, go ahead snag it, you know you want to! hehe!

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On to other things... snow! We had more of it today. The weather guys said "eh, it'll be a snowy commute but it will warm up by mid-morning." Apparently, they have a different definition of mid-morning than I do. When it came time to think about getting ready to pick Karleigh up from pre-school, the snow was still falling. Hard and fast. So, Jim went ahead and picked her up from school and took her to work with him. They went to Target to pick up some coloring stuff, that little fishing game - you know, the one with the fish that go chomp, chomp, chomp around in a circle?, they ate lunch together and he followed it up with a pink coffee for her. She drew pictures for the gals at the office and was highly offended when I showed up around 3:30. It was finally at that point that I was willing to attempt to get down the hill and into town. I'm very grateful that I didn't try any earlier than that since it was a very nerve wracking drive in. She had a blast today and it was great to have a few extra hours of "Rylan Time".