Thank you so much, Kristina, for The Smile Award.

This award comes with a set of rules:

1. The recipient must link back to the award’s creator.  (It’s interesting that the creator of this award is so young.)
2. You must post the rules to receive the award.
3. To receive the award, you must pass it on to 5 others.

4. You must fit the characteristics of the award recipient. (below)
5. Post the characteristics of an award recipient.
6. Create a post sharing your award with others.
7. Thank the giver.And here are the characteristics of award recipients.

~ Must display a cheerful attitude (not all the time – we’re all human!)
~ Must love one another.
~ Must make mistakes
~ Must learn from others.
~ Must be a positive contributor to the blog world.
~ Must love life.
~ Must love kids.

Thank you so much, Kristina!  

If no one minds, I am going to have to wait just a bit before passing this one along, as I have passed on so many memes and such lately, I’m afraid I’m overwhelming people.  So, just a bit…

Lynn

Michele at My Blessings From Above has given me an award!! (blushing). 

The “I Love Your Blog” Award.

THANK YOU, Michele!!  Now I get to spread the blog love.

Michele at Hedging My Bets - Keep sharing your wonderful, creative ideas and your excellent outlook on life.

Louise at The Pink Gate for being like a magical, wonderful, with-the-best-music-ever get-away every time I visit.

Heather at Blog She Wrote – Keep sharing your many amazing homeschooling ideas and your great stories!

Stacy at Everyday Gifts – Keep sharing your sweet family life and your everyday gifts.

Robin at Bittersweet Punkin for being like a vacation every time I visit you and for always reminding me to be happy.  You’ve got great music going on too!

Rue at Rue’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Life for always making me laugh and smile.  And having great music, too.  

Mary at Across the Pond for taking me across the Atlantic Ocean in the most graceful and artistic way ever!! 

It’s so hard to just pick 7.  Also, you know how I feel about memes and awards.  If you see your name here, take this award and spread the love!  If you’re too busy, just know that I love you and your blog and that’s all.  I know not everyone has the time to do awards and memes.  

The rules for the I Love Your Blog award are:
1. Link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Include the award on your blog.
3. Pass it on to 7 worthy bloggers with links to their blogs on yours.
4. Notify your recipients

Lynn

Wow.  I’ve fallen way behind, but it’s time to catch up!  Sandra over at her beautiful blog (and she’s beautiful too) My Inspired Heart gave me an award.  Blush. 

This award originated from Arte Y Pico, a blog which seems to be in Spanish.  I don’t speak or read Spanish (wish I did), so I put it into Google and had it translated.  It seems to be a blog that celebrates and recognizes creative contributions to the bloging community.  At least I hope that’s right because that’s what I got from it. 

I am going to post the rules and get on with choosing five other blogs that need this award.  I know some people get overwhelmed with awards, maybe because you do have to send it on to other people.  At any rate, if you see your blog here, you are certainly invited to put the award on your site, post the rules and pass it on.  If you don’t want to, just know that your blog is loved.

Emily at All Right Here for her wonderful scrapbook pages.

Michele at Hedging My Bets for her always-creative ideas for homeschooling a son!  (How many of us need that!!)

Linda, or StarLady, my FIAR friend who is teaching her children so much about art and creativity.  I think it’s wonderful!

Hannah, at Cultivating Home, because of the beautiful, old fashioned way in which she dresses her children and then helps other people know how to do it. 

Patricia at Little Cabin in the Woods for her absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous pictures of her little girls and the beautiful mountain area around her. 

Again, feel free to participate and pass it on, or just know your blog is loved.  Which ever is easier for you. 

Rules:1. Select five (5) other recipients for this award. You may select them for creativity, design, content or contributions to the blogging community & they can be in any language.
2. Name each nominee and link to his/her blog.
3. Show the award and include the name and link to his/her blog of whomever presented you with this award.
4. Link to the

Arte y Pico blog so everyone knows the origin of this award.
5. Post these rules.

Thank you, Sandra!!

Lynn

I left my training today — the second day of it — feeling quite worn.  The single question of how I might make it through the rest of the week was floating around in my mind.  I was able to acknowlege to myself that I wasn’t quite threadbare, but close.

It was absolutely wonderful to come home, and I was thankful to have made it home safely.  After the standard greetings with the children – hugs and kisses and listening to 4th grade tales, supper was put on the table. 

After supper, I retreated to a favorite place…

Gardens give people the tranquility they need in order to figure out the answers to questions they didn’t even know they had. 

I like to leave home — if I have to leave home — feeling well woven, with a good nap, able to handle things.  I accomplished that pretty well yesterday.  I did it less well today.  The days’ events, including meeting so many new people, listening to 8 hours a day of instruction that I’ll need to remember, worrying about the build-up of germs on my hands as I went from one hospital area to another, and preparing my mind for my new job, began to wear down that nap, threatening to show the sometimes unsightly warp that makes up my own foundation. 

Can I be impatient with people and with things?  Yes.  Do I want to be that way tomorrow?  No. 

There are things that need picking up.  They’ll wait.  I think it might be best to just try and relax my mind this evening.  Tomorrow will be another long day. 

Lest I sound ungrateful, I’m not.  I am thrilled to be getting this training.  I’m most thankful for my new job.  The stress might be arising from the fact that I like to do things exactly right and I don’t like to have to burden anyone by not knowing what I’m supposed to know. 

It delighted my tired mind to place one of my older birdbaths on a stump from a tree cut down in the neighborhood last week.

It’s just another day, after all.  I want to end it with gratitude and begin tomorrow with the same frame of mind.  Who wants to go out into the world threadbare?

Lynn

I have been gone for about the last five days, and it is so nice to know that I was missed!!  I was cheered to log on and see that my friend Michele had given me the “You Make Me Smile” award!  Cool!  8-D

I feel so honored to be adding this award to my sidebar!  ~:-D

Thank you Michele!

Anyway, I have been out of town, and we had a wonderful time, but it did have to end at some point and bring us back home.  Yes, there’s no place like home, but I sure was having a nice time away!!  I think we all were. 

The drought let up a bit with the rain we had before we left.  I noticed some beautiful dandelions in the yard when I returned.  I supposed at first that only I would rejoice over weeds, but actually I know there are other herablists out there who know just what I am talking about.  I had a nice detoxifying infusion on Monday evening.

I am going about putting things back in order today, so I better get busy!  More later!

Lynn

Ivy over at The Real Thing (Be Happy) nominated me for the Nice Matters award!  I am so proud of this, my award is sitting now in my sidebar.  ~:-D

Now I get to pass this on to 7 more people who are nice bloggers and have had a positive impact on the blogging world.

Here’s the award!

It’s lovely!

The ones I nominate:

Tea at Three 

Shauna Rumbling

Star Lady 

Settle for Survivor

Faith, Family and Farm

There are a couple others I would like to nominate, but I cannot seem to pull up their sites right now.  Perhaps technical difficulties?  So, I’ll stop there.

Isn’t blogging fun!!??