Awards

Green Mamma has awarded me the Kreativ Blogger Award. Thank you Green Mamma!

Here are the rules of this award:
1. List 7 things that I love
2. Link back to the blog that awarded it to me
3. Choose 7 blogs to award as 'Kreativ Bloggers'
4. Comment at each blog to let them know they’ve been chosen

7 things that I love:
Sunnyboy
Reading
Blogging
Attachment parenting and unschooling
Working at our charity shop
Being outside in the garden and places we can be close to nature
Our bed

These are the 7 blogs I'd like to give the 'Kreativ Blogger Award' to:
Garden Mama
Journalling through Photos
Mama-Om
What Do We Do All Day?
A Mountain Mama
Annette Quirke
Spirithelpers


Sara at Ordinary and Awesome and Joy at Mommy's Joy have awarded me the A Sushi Grade Blog! Award. Thank you Sara and Joy!

"A Sushi Grade Blog is fresh, lively and of superior quality. It is rare, has character and is of good taste."

Here are the rules of this award:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to 5 other blogs. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

These are the 5 blogs I'd like to give the 'A Sushi Grade Blog! Award' to:
Journey Wildly

From Clutter To Shine
muddy bare feet
RenegadeParent.net
Dare to Know


Buckeroomama at Mamahood, Among Other Things... has awarded me the Friends Blog Award. Thank you Buckeroomama!

"This award is bestowed on to 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."

Here are the rules of this award:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to 8 other blogs. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

These are the 8 blogs I'd like to give the 'Friends Blog Award' to:
Corridor Living
Necessary Room
Operation You
Green Mamma
Our Unschooled Family
Authentically Unique
ingrid liddle is kind of cute
Living the Dream


Nichol at Kiddies Corner Deals has awarded me the It's a Major Award. Thank you Nichol!

"This award is for anyone who likes to smile and/or laugh, and just generally spreads that along in the blogging world we all travel in."

Here are the rules of this award:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to bloggers who like to smile and/or laugh. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

These are some of the blogs that make me smile and/or laugh, that I'd like to give the 'It's a Major Award' to:
Planet M Files
Sewing Chick
My Practically Perfect Life
Mamahood, Among Other Things...
Hopeful Insights
The Expanding Life
The State I'm In......
Thrify Craft Mama
Frugal Family Fun Blog
5 Orange Potatoes
Charlie and Me
Mozi Esme
Flow of Love
Mmmm Mama
Dylan's Wild Rumpus
Zach Aboard
The Wilson-Parkes Family Tree
Veggie Way

I must be in a good place now

You know how we're an art family...

Mel at From Clutter to Shine and Buckeroomama at Mamahood, Among Other Things... have awarded me the One Lovely Blog Award, which is for newly discovered blogs. Thank you Mel and Buckeroomama!

Here are the rules of this award:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to up to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

These are the 15 newly discovered blogs I'd like to give the 'One Lovely Blog Award' to:
Rambling Through Wonderland
Free to learn an lovin it
Science no more?
Live Free Learn Free
tina
Sweetness & Light
Bohos in the Country
This Side of Town
Have Kids, Will Travel
Mama Liddle
Writing in Faith
Cave Mother

blogging on the ragged edge

Goldston Academy for the Insane

Homeschooling: Freedom and Fun For Your Family


Gina at Our Unschooled Family has awarded me the Your blog is as deer to me as cupcakes Award. Thank you Gina!

No Rules!

These are the blogs I'd like to give the 'Your blog is as deer to me as cupcakes Award' to:
All of the blogs I'm following!

There are so many wonderful blogs that I enjoy. If I haven't visited you recently please accept my apologies as I'm really behind with my blog reading. I hope to catch up and visit everyone soon but please accept the "Your blog is as deer to me as cupcakes Award" in the meantime. Also, there are several bloggers following SunnyDayTodayMama who haven't left a link in their profile. So if you're following me but I haven't visited your blog please leave a comment for me with a link, as I would love to do so.

Finally my congratulations to MaryAnne whose gorgeous new baby daughter Lily was born last week, and to Cascia who has a beautiful new baby son called Christopher John "CJ". They are both adorable!

Blogging friends

I only started this blog three months ago and in that time I've found so many interesting and exciting blogs. Two of these blogs belong to Se'Lah and Vchelle and I found them as a result of participating in Love Thursday. Their blogs have become very special to me because I know that when I visit I will always come away feeling uplifted and inspired. They've both created little havens of peace and reflection and I look forward each day to stopping by and sharing in that, as well as finding out what they (and their lovely daughters) have been up to. I feel so very welcomed by them both and am happy to be able to say that blogging has brought me such wonderful new blogging friends. I'm also honoured that Se'Lah and Vchelle have this week awarded me the Premio Dardos award. I won't be passing this award on as I already received and passed it on earlier this week, but I do want to say thank you to them both not only for the award but also for their friendships, which mean so much to me.


A few of the posts by Se'Lah at Necessary Room that have enchanted, delighted and inspired me recently:
Make Way: Adventure...
Road Trip: Adventure...
The Butterfly...
Anansi's Globe of Light...
Thank you Se'Lah for sharing your enthusiasm, honesty and joyfulness. You have raised my awareness on many important issues and I appreciate your consciousness.

Some lovely posts from Vchelle at Operation You that have filled me with a sense of peace:
There's Hope
Internal Anthem
The Tea Party!
How was your good day?
Thank you Vchelle for sharing your wisdom and love. You have such a wonderful outlook on life and I appreciate your radical freedom.

Happy Love Thursday blogging friends.

See more Love Thursdays at Chookooloonks

Awards

I'm delighted to have received two awards which I now have the pleasure of passing on to some wonderful blogs I love to read.

Thrifty Craft Mama has awarded me with the “Premio Dardos” award for "bloggers who distinguish themselves for showing cultural values, ethics, great and fun writing skills, as well as individual values, through their creative writing." Thank you Thrifty Craft Mama!

Here are the award rules:
To accept and show the distinct image
Show the link to the blog from which you were given the award
Choose 15 blogs to give the award

These are the 15 blogs I've chosen to give the "Premio Dardos" award to:
Necessary Room
Operation You
Our Unschooled Family
The Snail's Trail
The Wilson-Parkes Family Tree
Veggie Way
Green Mamma
Frugal Family Fun Blog
The Baby Dust Diaries
Corridor Living
I must be in a good place now
Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile
You know how we're an art family...
Living and Learning
Loopity Lou


Healthy Moms has awarded me the "One Lovely Blog" award, which is for newly discovered blogs. Thank you Healthy Moms!

Here are the rules of this award:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to up to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

These are the 15 blogs I've chosen to give the "One Lovely Blog" award to:
A Mountain Mama’s Blog
Breeze Daze
Happily Blended
Hopeful Insights
Ingrid Liddle is kind of cute!
Mama Notes
Momma Molly
My Barefoot Babies
Planet M Files
Seeking Imperfection
serendipity
sugar boot and weasel
The Little Travelers
Zach Aboard
Lisa Russell

There are so many more blogs that I enjoy reading. Some of them I previously gave the "Lemons to Lemonade" award. To all the other fantastic blogs I've been visiting and following thank you for your inspirational, creative and fun posts, and thank you also to the lovely bloggers who've been visiting and following this blog!

Mummy and Me and an award

When Sunnyboy was younger I searched the internet to find children's books with positive images of breastfeeding and attachment parenting and last week's Book Sharing Monday post featured one that I found and bought for him from Amazon. This week I've chosen a book that we came across by chance in a charity shop. Mummy and Me is a Baby Einstein book by Julie Aigner-Clark (with illustrations by Nadeem Zaidi) and includes a baby deer nursing and a baby orang-utan who is carried everywhere by it's mother.




'I am a baby deer.
I am brown with white spots.
My mummy lets me drink her milk and
makes sure I am well fed.
"I'm hungry, Mummy!" '

Find out more about Book Sharing Monday at Serendipity.

An award:

I'm delighted to have been chosen to receive another Lemons to Lemonade Award from Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile. This fantastic blog is a wonderful resource for anyone who loves children's books, with so many great book reviews that you're guaranteed to find something for your wishlist if you visit.

As I've already received this award very recently I decided to pass it on to one other blogger, who also has a passion for children's books, Het Lieveheersbeestje. She is a stay-at-home ladybird-mom in the Netherlands who is incredibly creative and blogs about crafts, children's activities and children's book reviews and book activites amongst other things. This is definitely a blog with great attitude!

THE LEMONS TO LEMONADE AWARD

The rules of the award are as follows:
1) Put the logo on your blog or post.
2) Nominate at least 10 blogs that show great attitude or gratitude.
3) Link to your nominees within your post.
4) Let the nominees know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5) Share the love and link to the person from who you received your award.

Lemons to Lemonade Award (Thank you!)

I'm very honoured and grateful to have received a Lemons to Lemonade Award from both Momma Snail at The Snail's Trail and Jennifer at The Wilson-Parkes Family Tree. I only started this blog six weeks ago and feel very much a beginner blogger, so I really appreciate that Momma Snail and Jennifer chose mine as one of the blogs to pass this award on to. I'm especially pleased because the award is for showing gratitude or showing good attitude and I'm delighted that they felt that my blog should receive an award for those qualities. I started this blog as a way to express my appreciation for Sunnyboy and writing it has helped me appreciate even more about him and our life together. So, thank you Momma Snail and Jennifer for this award, and thank you both for your inspiring and creative blogs!

THE LEMONS TO LEMONADE AWARD

The rules of the award are as follows:
1) Put the logo on your blog or post.
2) Nominate at least 10 blogs that show great attitude or gratitude.
3) Link to your nominees within your post.
4) Let the nominees know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5) Share the love and link to the person from who you received your award.

The blogs I would like to nominate are:
thrifty craft mama
The Napping House
collecting leaves......and other little experiences
Flow of Love
The Expanding Life
Heart Rockin' Family
living our own lives
Ordinary Life Magic
5 Orange Potatoes
Sensible Living
Wild As Weeds
The Chic Geek

RAMPAGE OF APPRECIATION