Liebster Award

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine, whose blog you can find here sent me a comment that she awarded with me the Liebster Award for blogging. Sarah is a new mommy of a boy, a breastfeeding, cloth-diapering mommy--very unlike me, haha--and she was awarded the blog from a woman she connected with who lives in Australia. In the last few months, as I've begun writing weekly for Liberating Working Moms, I've really grown as a mother and a writer. I've also started following a LOT of mommy blogs, including one of my favorites, Play at Home Mom. While I've learned more about the blogging world, links, pictures, etc, I decided to go ahead and pass on the award that was given to me.


I have not earned a ton of followers to my blog, but really, it's been more about my own making sense of things, my own sanity, and my own memories. So, the fact that Sarah gave this to me reminds me that I need to recognize my friends and cyber-friends who are making sense of their lives but have fewer than 200 followers. 


In accepting the blog, I am asked to do the following:

1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.

2. Reveal 5 blogs you have chosen for the award and let them know by leaving a
comment on their blog.

3. Copy and paste the award to my blog.

4. Request that people you have sent the awards to forward it on to their favorite bloggers.

5. It has to be given to a blog with fewer than 200 followers.

Here are the 5 blogs I am sending an award to:


1. Sister-Dipity: Though I do not know Rebecca personally, somehow I stumbled upon her blog and now I look for updates on a regular basis. She is a fellow teacher with three beautiful children (all with lovely, classic names). When I decided to follow her blog, I first read the Emerson quote on the side of her page. It was something I needed to hear that day, so I'll attribute it to fate.


2. Faith inFertility: Naomi does not post a lot, but when she does, it is poignant. Naomi and I have been good friends for years, and I have watched her through her marriage reconcile that some of her dreams are taking longer to come true. I have been apart of her first fostering experience, and can't wait to see the next chapters of her life and how she blogs about it to encourage others. 


3. The Mommy Circumstance: Laura-Jean and I met in high school after she moved to Florida from upstate New York. She is a go-for-it kind of person, someone I need in my life to remind me that things don't need to get humdrum and complacent. She just welcomed her third beautiful son, Davis Hawthorne, into the world, and she blogs about all the aspects of being a woman, wife, and mother.


4. Sunshine and Spilled Milk: Danielle Renae is one of the most beautiful people I know. She was my matron of honor and she was present when my child was born. Long before I even thought about becoming a mother, she was a stay-at-home mom, teaching her son, creating work space for her husband, making beautiful crafts, and blogging about it.


5. Chill Mama Chill: Brandee and I met through Liberating Working Moms, and I just love how she can tell it to you STRAIGHT in her blogs about being a new mother.

Check these blogs out!