Tag! I’ve been ‘it’ for a while, so I guess it’s time to catch up…

By Deb - Mom of 3 Girls on July 28, 2008, at 3:30 am

I’m looking at the dates on some of these posts where I was tagged for a meme or an award – and I have to seriously apologize to those of you who have been so kind with the linky love. Ugh! So bear with me as I try to get at least somewhat caught up here – and if you tagged me for something that I’ve missed here, please let me know. I think there’s at least one or two that I can’t seem to find again.

First of all, I was tagged (back in June – so sorry!) by Jen, over at One Mom’s World. I think I’ve done this meme before, but it’s one where the answers change depending on when you do it, so I’ll go through it again here:

What Was I Doing 10 Years Ago?

Hmm, I was a single professional living alone and despairing of ever meeting ‘the one’. Little did I know that just a couple of months later, I would be introduced to “this guy that’s a friend of J’s”…

5 Things On My To-Do List Today:

Get up ON TIME to get the girls to their summer program ON TIME!
Get unemployment figured out – after almost a month I still have no idea what I’ll be getting (or when) and it’s becoming rather urgent to figure out.
Laundry – ugh.
Saying goodbye to the second kitten to leave the ‘nest’.
Catching up on my feed reader – the number of unread posts is obscenely high.

Snacks I Enjoy:

Anything chocolate, granola bars, Baked Lays original chips, Flipsides crackers

Things I Would Do If I Were A Billionaire:

Pay off all of our debt – and all that of our family and close friends. Donate to worthwhile charities, and our church. Have a little (just a little) bit of fun with some of it.

Places I Have Lived:

Detroit area, MI
West Michigan

I won’t tag anyone on this one, but feel free to play along if you wish!

Next, I received not one – but two awards from Debbie over at Three Weddings. Thank you, and I’m sorry it’s taken so long for me to acknowledge and thank you for them!

I’m going to pass the SuperCommenter one along to my top 5 commenters this month – you can find them listed over on my right sidebar, but at the time that I write this they are Dad of Divas, CrAzY Working Mom, Tammy, Kristi, and Jean. Thank you so much to everyone who comments here – whether it’s on a regular basis or just once in a while. I love reading each and every one of them!

And I’m going to pass the Big Red Puffy Heart over to some of the wonderful review bloggers that I’ve met either before or after starting my own review site – CPAMom over at Did You See That?, Christine at From Dates To Diapers, SJ and Amy W. from Lookit! I Spy…, Stephanie from Metropolitan Mama, Elizabeth from MomReviews, Shannon from Momsational, and MJ from MomViews.

And lastly (for today, anyway), I received the Arte y Pico award both from Kathy at Is 8 enough? and Tish over at CrAzY Working Mom. Thank you both! Tish had these wonderful words to say as well, “Deb is one of my favorite bloggers. She has three of the most adorable little girls in the blogosphere. I love reading about their daily adventures ALWAYS complete with photos. In addition to her main blog she also does a review blog so this full time mommy is also a full time blogger. I just don’t know how she does it!” Believe me, there are times when I’m not sure either, lol.

The rules of this tag are as follows:

1)You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language

2)Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3)Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4)Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

Here are my five choices (and boy was it ever hard to choose just five…):

Dawn, at Coming to A Nursery Near You – Creativity and design are a couple of things she’s wonderful at and she’s also one of my first ever blogging friends.
Jenn, at From Fingers To Toes – I’m so glad to have ‘re’ found her at her new site! Her children’s and family photographs are so beautiful and just capture the spirit of whomever she points the camera at.
Kelsey, at My Sweet Life – Hmm, I seem to be heavy on the photography blogs here, but I had to include this one. Kelsey not only takes amazing photos, but she gives great tips to help others do so as well.
Corey, at Living and Loving Every Minute of It – One of my best blogging friends – and amazing photographer as well. Not to mention the mama of one sweet little Sugar Bear! Corey’s creativity always amazes me, and her photography tips have inspired me to try and utilize my little point-and-shoot to the best of its ability.
Summer, at Summer’s Nook – Another good blogging friend! Not so much photography here, at least not that she shares, but she has created some wonderful blog sites and I love her designs. And she writes with such clarity and vividness that you truly feel like you are there. And then there are her extremely helpful html tips that she posts every so often – definitely a huge help!