Phyllis @ All things Beautiful gave me a sweet surprise!
1. Thank and link to the person who nominated you.
2. Share 7 random facts about yourself.
3. Pass the award along to 15 deserving blog buddies.
4. Contact those buddies to congratulate them.
7 Random Facts
1. I used to feed alligators marshmallows from the dock. When I was a child we would go to the beach for weeks at a time. This was back when the Florida panhandle was not so developed. A state park adjoined my great-grandfather’s property. The coastal lakes and swamps…
2. My co-workers out west were concerned for me when I brought cucumber sandwiches for lunch. While it was purely preference for me, they were worried that they needed to take up a collection so that I wouldn’t need to live so frugally.
3. I was on the yearbook staff as photographer in both high school and college. Then, after that, briefly a wedding photographer.
4. I love watching the sunrise at the beach with a cup of coffee in my hand.
5. When I was in first grade my lips used to get really chapped. I thought that by licking them or soaking them in the stream of water at the water fountain, they would feel better. That’s when chapstick became my life-long friend.
6. I have been to the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park three times, the Tetons and Yellowstone five times, Glacier National Park once, Oregon twice and California once – all in the span of about three years. Can’t wait to take the children out there and show them!
7. One of my favorite verses is “So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10
15 Wonderfully Sweet Blogs That I Pass This Award To (and sending you this virtual chocolate cake. The easy recipe is here):
2. Passionate Purposeful Parenting
4. Petra School
6. Savvy Nest
14. Jimmie’s Collage
15. Beautiful Ideas
Plus I do want to thank my fellow Habits for a Happy Home buddies for all the sweetness they add to my life.
Thank you all for adding sweetness to my life, friends!
About Hodgepodgemom
YOU are sweet! Thanks for the award — and I can’t believe you used to feed marshmallows to alligators!!
Oh, I love your facts about yourself. What fun! Thank you for everything, especially being you. Thank you, too, for the prayer requests.
Tricia, Thank you so much! That virtual chocolate cake is delicious!
First off, thanks so much for the award! And the cake — all the richness and none of the calories. I was fascinated by your facts about you. Mine will be more mundane, I fear! Blessings, my friend.
You are most welcome ladies! Thanks for all you do in so many areas. Such encouraging blogs and sites, you all.
Thank you Tricia, I am honored! This is like the frosting on an already pefectly wonderful day.
I love that you used to feed marshmallows to alligators when you were a child – I use to feed marshmallows to bear cubs when we went camping.
I will keep Steven in my prayers!
Alea – I knew we were kindred spirits! not only with food but with feeding wild animals marshmallows. Can you believe we did that? So excited to see you at Savvy Blogging 2012!
Thank you for the sweet award! I can’t believe you fed alligators anything! What a brave girl you were. When my sister and I would go to the petting zoo, we’d get some feed from the machine for a quarter. My sister would hold our her hand, feeding the animals and petting them with her other hand. I would hold out my hand with the feed in it, bravely suck in my breath, and as soon as the animal’s tongue got near, scream and drop all the feed on the ground. I think alligators would have given me a heart attack.
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Thank you for the sweet award! Yummy, love chocolate cake, too! I am a little late seeing this, but it is appreciated! Love your random facts!