Pay it Forward.

As you may have read, I received my very first blog award. The 'Stylish Blog Award'!! Thank you so much to Kelly-Ann for pickin' me. Now....here is the criteria to follow after winning abovesaid award.

1. Thank and link back to the person that has given you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 15 blogs you have recently discovered.
4. Contact these bloggers and let them know about the award.

Ok, now on to the seven things:

1. I'm a stay-at-home mom. This is my greatest achievement; becoming a mother.
2. I'm 25 years old and I have two kids, UGH...makes me feel old. They are aged 4 and almost 2.
3. I absolutely love to cook and I'd really love to figure out this time management thing I'm having a problem with so I can cook/bake more often and blog about it.
4. I've only been blogging barely a month!
5. Last year I started on a weight loss journey and created my own fitness regime that helped me to lose 20 pounds post giving birth to my youngest. Yesterday, I attempted to re-start this fitness regime. I hope I can stick with it!
6. I've officially been with my hunnie for 6 years now, but we met in July of 2004.
7. My sister is my best friend.

Now to the fun part, awarding the 15 blogs that I recently discovered and thought were 'Stylish Blog-worthy'

.........drumroll.....

1. Maple Leaf Mommy
2. Aubut Family
3. Cars, Trucks, and Teething Rings
4. KD Buggie
5. Menopausal New Mom
6. Mommy Katie
7. One Busy Chick
8. My Happily Ever After
9. Reading With Joey
10. Take it From Me
11. Balancing Stilettos and Scrubs
12. House on the Corner
13. The Chickenista Reviews
14. Tough Cookie Mommy
15. Sleppery Mind

Weeell, there ya have it boys and girls! If you have some time, please stop by these blogs (if you haven't already). They are all great reads, I promise!

If you were one of the lucky recipients of this award and are finding yourself here, don't forget to pay it forward.

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My Very First Blog Award.

I'm very pleased to announce that I have received a 'Stylish blogger Award'!! Thank you so much to Kelly-Ann at http://lean-soldier.blogspot.com for bestowing this great honour upon me! LOL - Nice gestures like these make all the hard work that goes into blogging worth it!

Twitter Widgets

Hey there bloggers! Just thought I'd let ya in on a site I found today with super cute twitter widgets (if you all hadn't already known about it).

http://twitbuttons.com/

                                                            
 

I'm having so much fun adding and creating new things on my blog. But sometimes, I find, that I'm on google forever trying to find anything I want.

If anyone has a good site for blog improvements/widgets/buttons, don't be shy!!

Expectations

So I was posting a comment on Menopausal New Mom's Aloha Friday blog post this morning regarding what makes a good blog. And it made me think, what are my expectations for my blog? What message will I want to be sending out to it's readers?

Here's a list of things that I hope for the future, sort of a "To Do" List:

1. A visually appealing blog; I need a good template!
2. Some super cool content, who doesn't like a reader friendly blog. I mean, that's what a blog was originally intended to be for: reading.
3. Useful gadgets. Once I can get my head around what I need! Which brings me to the next one:
4. A healthy size audience to read my posts and look at the super cool gadgets I will have ;)
5. And hopefully one day if I am lucky, I can start writing some sponsored posts in between all of this and maybe one day....drumroll...I will be lucky enough to host a few giveaways!

High hopes I know, for those that have visited my blog you know that I am brand spankin' new to this whole process. But the way I see it, how am I ever going to get anywhere if I just keep talking about it! 

So here's to the future!

Blogging Intimidation

I never thought in a million years just how time consuming and difficult starting up a blog would be. The process of signing up for Blogger was SO easy that I mistakenly thought, well...how hard could constructing the blog itself really be? Wrong!! And especially because I have such high hopes to one day be writing reviews and having giveaways on my site, it is all very overwhelming.

I recently tried to add a Navigation Bar to my blog and nearly gave myself an aneurysm just trying to figure it all out. I am a follower to quite a few review and mommy blogs and I love all the clever buttons, the useful gadgets and grown-up posts.

All I can say is, this will be a learning process. And one I might add, that I am not willing to give up on. See, I'm a SAHM of 2 beautiful girls and living in a small town there are not very many opportunities for me here and quite frankly daycare is way too expensive! I am really excited to finally do something for myself, to give me a sense of self-worth and fulfillment (other than raising my beauties).

So what's next? Research and trial and error will be prominent for this blogs future...as well as networking and getting myself OUT THERE! And of course, Blog.