Lemonade & Splash Awards

Lemonade Award

Splash Award

Whoaaaaa!!! Well my goodness. I got not one, not two, not three, but four awards over the course of a little over a week. Thank you so much Xazmin and Kristen for the Lemonade Award!! And to Jen and Liz for the Splash Award!! The Lemonade Award is given to a blog for showing an Attitude of Gratitude. The Splash Award is given to a blog because someone thinks the blog is alluring, amusing, bewitching, impressive and inspiring. I'm so honored that someone thinks I'm worthy of these awards. Really, I'm stunned. I still can't believe anyone actually reads my jibberish let alone enjoys it. Thank you so much girls!! The only other award I ever got IRL (in real life) was at my 8th grade graduation. It was the humanitarian award and until this day, I cannot figure out why it was given to me. I tutored a young boy for awhile but that's about the only "humanitarian" thing I think I ever did in grammar school. Incidentally, that same young boy now plows my driveway in the winter.

I have so much to be grateful for I honestly don't know where to start. I've got a great family. My parents taught me to be an extremely responsible and honest adult which is something I hope to pass onto my own children.

I'm grateful that my husband works so many jobs just so I can stay at home with my kids. (Just so you all don't think I'm a slacker, he had this many jobs before we were married and had kids. He works a little harder knowing he's the only bread-winner in the family now.) In the same breath, I'm grateful that we have enough money to live in our house, we have enough food and clothing and for all of the other basic necessities that some people in the world don't have.

Everyone in my life is healthy. I still have 2 of my grandmothers alive. At one point, when I was 23, I had 4 grandparents (one being a step-grandfather) and a great-grandmother alive. Growing up I thought this was the norm for everyone. I came to find out some of my friends didn't have parents that were alive, let alone grandparents. So sad. Something that I quickly realized was unusual as I got older. Lucky me.

Speaking of luck, I've always felt I was a lucky person. Although I've never won anything except for the awards stated above. Another reason I feel lucky is because I've met all of you. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that I would have a blog and have met so many wonderful, loving, kind and caring people from around the world. Never. All of you really have no idea how much you mean to me.

Now, here are the rules for accepting and sharing the Lemonade Award:

1.Put the logo on your blog or post
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs that show an attitude of gratitude
3. Link to your nominees within your post
4.Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received this award
5.Share the love and link to this post and the person who nominated you for the award. Tell us how you've come to have an attitude of gratitude.

The rules for accepting and sharing the Splash Award:

1.Put the logo on your blog or post
2. Nominate 5 blogs that you find alluring, amusing, bewitching, impressive and inspiring
3. Link to your nominees within your post
4.Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received this award
5. Share the love and link to this post and the person who nominated you for the award.

But you know what. After posting the how to's of accepting these awesome awards I'm the type of person that feels badly about excluding people and would never want to hurt someone's feelings. So I'm going to skip the part where I nominate specific blogs. I truly love all of your blogs.

Thanks again Xazmin, Kristen, Jen and Liz. You girls rock!!

Much love from NJ,