Feeling the bloggy love

I have been remiss of late in not mentioning the blog awards that my dear bloggy friends have awarded me with. It all started back in October when I was messing around with my blog template and wound up losing my template, along with all my cool sidebar linkage including my blog awards. I was so depressed over the whole deal that I didn't bother putting all my awards back on my sidebar. It has taken me months to even get the little weather pixie back on my sidebar. I don't want to appear ungratetful so I do want to say thank you for the awards that have been given to me. I got two just yesterday! Though I do love getting awards, it is so hard passing them on because I don't want to leave anyone out.


Thank you No Cool Story for the Everyday Kindness award.

I pass this award onto: Yvonne and Mary P a good friend that recently moved from our area. Go check her out, her blog I mean. ;)

Thank you Tori for the You make my day award.

I pass this award onto: Kathleen and Boedee - another friend who has left us for bigger, better tolerable and warmer places.

Kathleen, from So Grateful to be a mormon, awarded me with this 'Excellent' award several weeks ago. Thank you Kathleen.

I pass this award onto: A Little Revolution and Mary from Mary-land.

Phew! That was painful! I hate having to pick and choose. All of my blog readers are worthy of each of these awards

Now I would like to introduce my awards page. This idea is not new, in fact I am stealing this idea from some of my favorite bloggers. This way my awards will be safely tucked away within my blog and they won't get deleted again.

In other news: It has been one month since I started my chocolate challenge. I am proud to say that I have gone 30 days without chocolate. It has been easier than I thought it would be, though I do have hard days still. Like the day my husband asked me to make chocolate chip cookies for his home teaching families. That was hard! I even made it through PMS without any chocolate. That definitely deserves an award! ;)

Still, in other news: We have been going through the stomach flu at our house. Three down and crossing our fingers that we're done. {knock on wood} Yesterday I pretty much sealed the deal in my running for mom of the year when Megan puked all over me. Surpisingly I didn't even gag. Now that is true, unconditional, motherly love if I've ever seen it. Today I can't decide if my stomach really hurts or if it is all in my head. I'm hoping for the latter.