I was very touched to receive another award nomination last week: a humbling Beautiful Mama Blog Award. I wish to thank one of my wonderful followers http://futureflyingsaucers.wordpress.com for this honor. I’m quite certain my poor children might have second thoughts on this one, but in my defense, I believe I actually got better with time. Please check out Flying Saucers blog because I guarantee you’ll enjoy it!
There are some things I’m supposed to do to justify posting this award. They are: share three things I love about motherhood and then nominate as many other mothers who blog as I want.
As per the rules, I can tell you three things I enjoyed about Motherhood:
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It’s satisfying when you drag your children kicking and screaming to an event and afterwards they shuffle the ground with their feet and mumble, “Thanks Mom, that was actually fun.”
- That it’s a “in our humanity” justifying emotion, hearing your daughter gripe about things that her daughter does that we actually endured with her! This too shall pass . . . my sweet thing . . .
- That as a grandmother, I can rectify many wrongs that occurred when as a Mom, I was too young and impatient to endure at the time. Praise God for His redemptive grace and loving children! How grateful I am to God for them!
Now on to the nominations: I have many wonderful followers who are terrific mothers, so I’m missing plenty, but I’d like to nominate the following and hope they’ll accept:
- http://pocketfulofmotherhood.wordpress.com
- http://mylifeasmommyglover.com/
- http://hundredpercentchanceofchange.wordpress.com
- http://lifesearchforchrist.wordpress.com/
- http://cindyscountrymix.wordpress.com
- http://ritchilpgumpic.wordpress.com
- http://bobbinsworld.wordpress.com
I’d also like to nominate http://farmfoodieandfitness.com even though I realize she’s extremely busy and might not be able to pass it on. If anyone is actually too busy to accept, it’s no big deal. I wanted the blogging world to know that you’re all amazing mothers with terrific sites! You can nominate one or many others – there’s no pressure with this particular award, it’s just fun. I do hope it draws others to your page!
(And if http://storyland4.wordpress.com/ hadn’t already been nominated, I would have, because of her family devotion and steadfast, unwavering spirit to conquer Joshua and Caleb sized mountains in her life! Nothing defeats this woman!)
Philippians 1:3 “Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.“
New Creations Ministries 
Thank you! 🙂
I LOVE your reason #1 – that always brings a smile to my face with my kids 🙂
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Haha, you too huh? I guess that makes # 2 all the sweeter! 🙂 Gotta love those rug-rats! Isn’t it wonderful how God loves us even when He knows the outcome, amidst all our whining too? Thanks Sarah, can’t wait to hear what YOU say in your post!
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Here’s today’s blog post. Thank you again 🙂 http://mylifeasmommyglover.com/2013/03/06/beautiful-mama-blog-award/
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Thank you for the nomination Ellie. :o) I like Rule #1 as well I must admit though, I’ve turned the tables and made a fuss myself. Each of my children takes notice and falls into step very quickly when they think Mom will kick and scream.
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Thank you H, and please let me know when you write up and post your three best things about being a Mom? I so love reading all the responses, thanks.
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Thank you for the nomination Ellie. I’ll have to have a think tonight about the three things to pick from the many. 😉
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Congratulations, Ellie! I’m not surprised as your blog is always so faith-filled and encouraging. 🙂
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Hi Ellie! I am just now realizing that I responded to your award nomination on my site, but I mistakenly did no reply directly to you so you might not have seen it :(. I wanted to tell you thank you SO much for nominating me for the Beautiful Mama Blog Award!! That really meant a lot to me and it was so gracious of you to do so! I did accept the award and I got a post up about it yesterday. Your kindness really brightened my day :).
Thanks and Many Blessings!
Hannah
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It was my pleasure and thank you for letting me know because I hadn’t seen it. I’ll search it out now. You totally deserved it and that award will look so good on your page!
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Thanks again Ellie!! Now here’s the bad thing, since you’ve nominated me 3 times and this is the first I actually have been able to get to I don’t know what to do! LOL! Save the pic, add 3 things I love about being a mother, and then nominate others? Is it that simple or am I losing my mind in all this?? LOL!
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Hahaha, and I’d nominate you three more times if I could. Your posts are some of the best on WordPress! Naa, just go for the motherhood one if you want. I always thought fifteen nominations was a bit much and I’m grateful I gathered so many followers over the months so I could add some other great ones. I love all my followers, it’s so hard to choose. (I loved displaying the awards on my site but can’t figure out how to do so on my front page so I simply created another page.)
Yeah easy, I just copied the photo and wrote (tongue in cheek) what I enjoyed about being a mom and nominated some of the many great moms who follow my post. Even a couple nominations are fine. But one doesn’t even have to nominate followers if you have others you read elsewhere. Just have fun.
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