Two lovely awards for me

I received not one but two awards some time ago, that I've neglected to post. I was awarded these from a fellow blogging friend Andrea over at Mom Writer Me, thanks Andrea! Great blog she has! I appreciate you passing these both on to me, and excuse my lateness in getting these posted. I know I'm bending the rules of receiving these awards a bit, but being as inactive as I've been I would like to pass these on to all my readers. I have so much catching up to do, and I want to thank all my continued readers with both of these. Thanks again Andrea!

The first is for blogs that:


"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."

The second is:



The rules are:

Name 7 things that you love then pass this onto 7 other bloggers.

(No particular order) -

My family
My dog
seafood
shopping
reading
The Wii
vacations :D

At one point I was attempting to showcase all the awards that have been passed on to me in a tab of it's own. Needless to say, I couldn't figure it out lol. I got the awards tab to appear up top on my menu bar, but once clicked it only comes back to my homepage, without an award in site. My hat goes off to so many talented bloggers that just have their blogs laid out to the tee, when I grow up I want to be just like you!!! :)