Mother of All Blog Awards

I have to tell you I am just amazed at all the AWESOME, genuine, good-hearted, RAWKIN' women and moms of the blog-o-sphere! I tell you I just LURVE you all. Can you feel the love? NO? Well here you go.

You see my friend Mel, who makes me laugh on Skype and has super UBER giveaways, she passed me this awesome award and we LURVE her for it, so please go check out her UBERNESS if you haven't already.You might know she is "Outnumbered" in real life....but here....we blogga's come in numba's (okay that was totally lame cool)

And you know....so did this super AWESOME, fabulous Mom who is doing right by her family, do you know her, A Mom After God's Own Heart, you should know her, she is just LOVELY.

But life gets totally BETTER, because if I didn't already have the coolest entourage of reading (yes I read these ladies and I get giddy when I see their email....DAILY) the Dynamic Duo of PINK and POSH have nominated me for the same award! So I have to say if you are not reading these ladies....FAIL. Seriously, love them because everyday I feel B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L and they have UBER DUPER giveaways too!

Just when I thought I had enough to bust out of my britches.....dear, sweet, SANE, theatrical, Lauren was SUPER OOPER awesome to nominate me for the Warm and Cozy. I love the thought you someone might feel warm and cozy at my blog. RAWK ON! Come latte up here anytime Lauren. Muwah! xoxo

Without further adieu as I am humbled yet again by some super fabulous bloggers who love my CRAZY, my ranting, my emo, I am suppose to pass on to a BOAT LOAD of other bloggers and here goes! I am suppose to link to 15 (for each award) of bloggers I have found...which is a lot quite frankly, so I am going to go with the bloggers I have found from my comments section. Yes YOU! My lovelies, my PRETTIES!

• Lauren, sister love you come get your best blog award. Post it proudly love!
• My Poshy Nicole, I love you from here to the MOON! Now I just have to meet you and your duo (in RL)! You get the Warm and Cozy, as I always feel warm and cozy about mahself at yours and Jeri's place!
• Mel, come get you some sister! Wam and cozy fo SHO! Like a little Gnome Warrior, punt worthy. (WoW reference....sorry)
• Erin, my chillaxin love, you make me feel warm and cozy for SURE, and of course you have the best blog of course...all my friends do!
  
• Speedy, I wubs joo! What more can I say.
• Mama Hen, I know....I said it out loud, You are the best blog (because you so deserve it!) and I felt so at home in your Vlog. Warm and Cozy!
• Callie, My Jamerican Spicy love. Come get you some!
• Equidae, Mel, I love you my dear friend. I finally got my passport, I will soon, find a way to hop the pond to come visit! 
• A Mom After God's Own Heart, you are the epitome of Warm and Cozy good lady! Come get you some too! Spread the love like butter!
• Stacie, my dear, patient, STRONG, beautiful friend. You so deserve this for all you do. Folks check her out and LEARN and support autism awareness. HUGS!!
• Helen, she is A FOODIE after my own heart. Man can this woman manuever a kitchen. And ON a budget! Hop the pond to see her. We WUB her here at The Fish.
• Amanda, My Short Mama, I told you! I told you I had something up my sleeve. Come get you some. Oh folks, she is a fellow Zonie, so we REALLY lub her too!
• Carissa, She is good and Crazy! I love her! She is a Mormon after my own Pagan heart! Just kidding, had to give you snark because I love you! Get your awards sister! The least I could do for what you have done for me. HUGS
• I Wonder Wye, she is HYSTERICAL! This woman has lived, is living, is wonderful I so enjoy her stories. Makes me want to always curl up and read.
• Michelle, who has a thousand pictures to tell a thousand stories and they are magnificent. If you do not read or see what she has...GO DO EET NOW!
• MamaOTwins, is my Irish Twin, she must. She has crazy like me, I like how we crazies stick together. Like a village, or an island, or something. She is fantastic.
• Kara, she has a purposeful blog and a great Green chile recipe. I dig her food thinking! I love food hot and spicy!
• Amy, she is fanatically FUNNY! Great stories, great wit, her blog is one I like to lurk. I am a lurker, like a hunter. 
  
• BlueViolet, I LURVE her, she is like a surrogate mom, sister, we are kindled flames together. She RAWKS my bloggy world and is FUNNY AS all get out!
• Auntie E, she is a busy bee! She is just as sweet as jam, go get your read on with her. Very warm and cozy!
• Lizz, she barely has any nerves left, or sanity maybe? She is a night owl like me...so if you came here looking for your award....its here. In my drafts, preparing to be posted. We LURVE Lizz. And you should root her on because she is getting her SEXY back! WOOT
• MamaDweeb, she rocks! A dweeb after my own heart, I LURVE that! She is also the coolest new Monday Mingler.
• Simply Me, another Mingler. We blog chicks get around and its all good. She is too cute and sweet as can be, I love her Southern Belle accent. Go love on her!
• Melissa, My sister from another life, my love, my muse. She is rockin' and drooling, mom gone mental, though I don't think her kids are doing that to her much anymore if you read her blog. LURVE you! 

I think that is about all the bloggy love that I can muster right now....I have lots, if I did not name you, I do WUB JOO very much! I read. I read lots, but right now. My bed is calling me so I can go make love to my sheets, my cool, cotton sateen sheets that need LURVE too!

Come Get You Some

 I have to admit I am a Funewga (fa-noo-gah) (Fuckin New Guy...in case you didn't know...old car biz saying) to this whole blog thing. I mean truly I am, still a little wet behind the ears and getting the hang of everything. So I was completely humbled, surprised, and totally honored by a few special messages from some very special bloggers.

Tania over at the Lucky Canuck awarded me with the One Lovely Blog Award. I tell you, this means a whole lot to me, because some days, I think that my blog is less than lovely, so this truly was a huge honor.Especially because she is just rawkin! She is just too sweet really she is, very quiet in the emails we have passed back and forth, just a Canadian gem...like all my Canadian blog friends!

Amanda, over at A Family of Shorts awarded me with the I Give Good Blog award which is totally wicked and again a huge honor and totally humbling to me. She is totally nuts and I love her, a fellow Zonie (AZ native) and so awesome I found her....or rather maybe she found me. Love her!

Have you all met Holly? She is a ROCKIN' chick and also a fellow Zonie and twin mommy. So she knows the crazy we sell and talk about around here. She does Tea and talks about her twins at Saguaro Blossoms so check her out. She was ever so awesome to pass on this award, so to her I am grateful as well.

I am not one to take compliments well, I am generally the one giving them, just part of my nature and who I am I guess. So here is the deal. I am suppose to link up 15 new bloggers that I have found. Well I tell you, I found at least that this week and no way I can remember, I fave them and I just click through my bookmarks. What I want to do since you have to limit who gets these awards, I want to add a McLinky here!!

I want you, to come give yourself the award, grab it, steal it, pass it around, mom it forward to someone else, or heck just showcase it on your blog and let me know you did by adding your link at the bottom! I think we are all great bloggers, there are so many that I read in a day that I can't get to everyone to comment, and I surely cannot just limit my choices. So please, come link up, grab your awards! Seriously! You deserve it!

So sign the linky that you took your award. And hey....helps your rankings!!

Awarded

When I began my journey of blogging a few years ago I had no idea how rewarding a simple blog post could be. I would post for the sheer fact of updating family, and then I got into how I could share more than just what the kids were doing....what I was doing. How I was coping as a mother. I finally found a voice. With my voice I have found many other voices in this journey. Women with the same struggles, victories, and let downs as myself. I have also met women with some of the greatest courage and strength and light that burn into me like the daily sun and I yearn for more with these women, they are truly superb. I have received some awards that really turned my day around.

I was having a crap-tastic day yesterday and my dear bloggy friends, who one day I will meet in person, either by road trip, a conference, or for the hell of it and we all run off to Vegas leaving our husbands with the kids, but these dear friends gave me some really great awards that mean a lot to me and I hope they mean just as much to those who will also receive them.


This award so means a lot to know that I inspire another mom, woman, and bloggy friend! Stacie I love you my friend, you are courageous and genuine and I love you for that and thank you so much for this award!! So here are the deets with this award and who I will be sharing with since Stacie already passed this on to me:

• Blog about this award linking to the person who awarded it to you.
• Share the award with 10 other bloggers who inspire you.
• Comment on their blog directing them here: http://tiny.cc/BlogItForward541 so that they may blog it forward and grab the code for the button.

My award winners would be endless but here are some ladies who inspire me and show me how amazing a woman I can be because of their unbeknownst inspiration:

• Melissa @ Rock and Drool: You taught me to keep my voice, no matter what. Your raw, bold faced honesty keeps me laughing and wanting more. Have fun @ BlogHer my friend.
• Kadi @ Womb at the Innsane but now she is focusing on Haute Cowgirl and Womb To Bloom: Kadi you are amazing, for a woman the same age as me I am in awe of how well you keep your shit together sister and for all that you do! Amazing!
• Shelley @ I'm Still Standing After All This Time: Shelley you are a heck of a woman with strength and courage and the will to fight adversity like no other. Your skills as a special needs mom blow my mind. You are a class act!
• Eileen @ Sane Without Drugs: You are my sister from another mother! You keep me laughing and coming back for more....are you my dealer?! Shhhh, I won't tell!
• Theta Mom! You are one awesome woman and a total light in life. I can't even describe more! You are fantastic!
• Trudy @ Third Time's a Charm: You are a gem my sister! All you have overcome and where you are today...stand proud as you should be. You are a shining light!
• Veronica @ Another Suburban Mom: Oh my woman, you show women everywhere the power of beauty and sex appeal! Love ya!

Now I also received two other awards from my friend Stacie @ Super Mommy to the Rescue and also from Theta Mom and they are these lovely awards!!

I have to pass these on so I am just going to name a few because I think these readers and bloggers are absolutely LOVELY and have tons of class character that I enjoy reading.

• Nicole, but she goes by Nikki. She is just awesome, love her reads.
• My Sister Brittany, she is lovely and I love her.
• My other sister Nicole, because I know she felt all sorts of guilt for not making my graduation but I totally understand so wanted to share some love with her.
• Modern Mom, she is one lovely lady and filled with class and sass. Love her!
• Jayne @ Misplaced City Girl. I love her, her foodie habits are about as quirky as mine...plus she is reviewing and giving away my soaps! Be sure to go check her out.
• Blueviolet @ A Nut in A Nutshell. She is a riot, and back to blogging, I do not think she knew how much she was missed. So here you go my bloggy friend!
• Beth @ Be Careful What you Wish For! My other sister from another mother who totally gets me. She definitely deserves the award! Lovely and sane....with kids!!
• Mel @ The Lotus Pages who carries a calm and lovely demeanor at all times. She is my zen and my long distance BFF who one day I will knock on the door to her flat in Malta and we shall drink, eat and be merry together!!
• Momma Young who can make a girl feel like home in the bloggy world with strangers. You are my mother hen of the welcome wagon! Love you!
• Lizz @ One Nerve Left who again....a sister from another mother. Her tweets and blogging are just awesome and shes just a great all around bloggy friend!
• Sherry @ A Little Fun with Me and Lu is an inspiration to moms who lack patience!! Go check her out and all her craft fun with Lu! She is just awesome!!
  
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So there is my short list for now...like I said I would be here ALL DAY listing my lovelies! Which I have lots of lovelies that I read, comment, and stalk. Share the love ladies! I know I would if I had enough energy, daylight, and no gnomes pulling at my legs to run off to your blogs and share the awarded love! So know, if I did not mention you....I love you!! DEARLY!!

Giving Credit where Credit is Due

I have had so many wonderful men and women come into my life since I began blogging. Either by a simple stumble, maybe a mistake, a referral, or some obligation but I have been so blessed. I think so many bloggers deserve recognition and credit that this post is for you! I am humbled by your comments, your feedback, your friendship, your support that you deserve to be recognized for being such a wonderful person, blogger, and friend.

Please go check these wonderful ladies (and gents) out. They brighten my day, have wonderful reads, and are near and dear to my heart!

• Beth
• Stesha
• Stacie
• Equidae
• Holly
• Modern Mom (Still have yet to learn her name...I am so BAD!! But she knows I love her!)
• Miss Behavin
• Lizz
• Karrie
• Lisa
• Melissa (I love her to death and she knows it!)
• Tess
• Valerie (She has a heart of gold!)
• Aubrey
• Helene
• Veronica (She is my alternate deviant twin)
• JAM Just call her Jam! LOL
• Alisha
• Jennifer
• BuckerooMama
• Sissy
• SITS Girls Tiffany and Heather (We all love them!)
• Stephanie
• Veronica Lee
• Angela
• Melissa of Sweet Serendipity
• Muthering Heights
• Jaime
• Meg Ryan's Mom (she is a crack up!)
  
• Sherry
• Sandy
• Kadi
• The Monkeys Mama
• Cynthia
• My sisters
  
• Shelly
• Becca
• Fiona
  
• Melodie

If I don't have you on the list take no offense...I most likely was pulled away by the Squids as I have heard random screaming ALL DAY and the time is almost 3pm AZ time which mean I have to get off my bloggy duff to run errands and start making dinner for tonight. Oh so glamorous life you know!? I love all the ladies (and men) that I read and wanted to share my love and create a post just for you!

All my bloggy love and friendship,
Mrs Fish
(Karie)

Love ya!!

I just love me some bloggy awards. They are just the coolest because you have bloggy girlfriends who think you are just awesome for being and think highly enough of you to share the honor. My dear bloggy friend Valerie who is the epitome of light bestowed this wonderful award upon me and now, I have the honorable duty of bestowing the award to others.

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.

So I have a hard time limiting who I must deliver said blog award to......please do not take offense as I love all the blogs I subscribe, read, follow, and believe me....I read.....takes me forever.....but I read!!! Here are my eight that I think could use and have deserved the honor of this lovely award!!

1. Linda @ My Trendy Tykes (she is just too cute)
2. Jen Majors @ The Avon Lady: Avon Calling (she is hilarious!)
3. April @ Cats, Dogs, Turtles, Frogs (shes just as crazy and fun as the rest of us with all her animals....plus she is a dirty job lady too!!)
4. Veronica Lee @ Of Mice and raMen (she is just one of a kind!! Love her)
5. Jen @ Keep It Classy Jen (she is too sweet and I have known her for awhile from the Closet! No...not that Closet!!)
6. Modern Mom @ Life in the Suburbs (she is just too fun and a truly genuine woman)
7. Alisha @ Confessions of a Moody Mommy (love all of her honesty...I swear she could be my twin on some days!!)
8. Brittany @ The Greer 5 (because without my sister I would have never found all of these wonderful blog friends!!)
   

Drumroll........One Lovely Blog

The award goes to ME!! My lovely and giving friend Veronica Lee over at Of Rice and raMen was so kind to award and gift me with the lovely award of One Lovely Blog.



In all my ranting and venting she brought me back down to tell me that even in the storm we can find blue skies. So I thank you Miss Veronica and send you my love for being so kind and sharing this bloggy award. Now I am to share this so I am going to psycho comment on all my mommy blogs that I love and adore and follow....all 117 of them and I will....I will post that they get the award if it's the last thing I do.

Oh My...I Must Thank the Blogging Academy!

I cannot believe I woke up this morning to find I have yet another award....TWO AWARDS in fact!! My dear blogging Mommy Veronica Lee over at Of Mice an raMen presented these awards to me and I am so super stoked! Here they are in all the glory of the blog universe!

This award reads:
"The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken - excellence, grace and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words. As a recipient of this world-renowned award, you now have the task of passing it on to at least 5 other worthy bloggers. Do not risk the wrath of the zombie chickens by choosing unwisely or not choosing at all…"

So I will have to say to avoid the wrath of a Zombie Chicken....because I would hate to have my brain pecked to death by a Zombie Chicken I am choosing all 116 of the bloggy moms I follow!! YUP!! ALL OF THEM!! I think then I am choosing wisely and I can't say I am not choosing at all....although I would be here all day listing them. So please come graciously accept the Zombie Chicken and Bloggy Buddy. Now I will head over to my Sister Blog and dedicate these awards to my best bloggy buddies!! Have a great Wednesday!

Tuesday is so AAAWWWWEEEESSSUUUMMM!

Why is Tuesday so awesome (awe-sum)? Well because today I was nominated for another blog award...only the second in my bloggy career. Can you believe it? ME??!! I mean seriously, I usually only get that award from DH, you know the one right:

I was nominated by my sister which is totally AWE-SUUMM!! So here is a blip about my sister if you don't already know her or follow her blog and our blog:

Brittany - is a true free spirit, my best friend, my best enemy (hey we're sisters), and one savvy chick who got me into this blogging business.

To accept this AWE - SUM award and pass the award onto others I must list 7 awesome things about myself and then list 7 awesome people that I would like to pass the award on to. So here goes, I am AWE-SUM:

1. I got up this morning without barking orders in my drill sergeant fashion and coffee was waiting for me.

2. I made breakfast for EVERYBODY, including mahself, before 8am. This NEVER happens.

3. I made a ruckus, and am still making a ruckus about my son's teacher who is losing her job in June. I will do all I can to make sure she keeps her job....I am AWE SUM.

4. I didn't yell at my kids once today. I know!!! AWESOME!!!

5. I finished all my pointless homework in a timely fashion so I can spend the rest of my time wisely this week (stirring the pot with my son's school)

6. Oh, I was elected Treasurer of the PTO for my son's school. I am SOOO AWWEESUM!!

7. I ate a brownie, from the batch my husband made, shortly after taking them out of the oven....they were so warm, soft and gooey!! I am so totally AWWEE SUUMM!!

Now here are some of my bloggers that I think are awe-suumm, but actually, they are all awe-suum. So here are my 7 that I am limited to:

Annette over @ Fairy Blog Mother

Trisha over @ Mom Dot

Candice over @ A Day in the Life.....

Morgan over @ Mommy Momo

Karrie over @ Knit Purl Gurl

Betty over @ It's Me Betty

Miracle Mommy Bear over @ Moon N Star Mommy

Enjoy your Awesomeness!!!

The thing with the Penis...whats it called?

HA!!! I so got you all! I love that word...PENIS....sounds so naughty but so clinical. I love to say PENIS. HA HA. Okay enough of my penis speaking fetish. I did get a thing with the penis, you know like the SAG award, The Actor, as the statuette is called.

I found I received an award for having a smoking (no pun intended) blog with gratitude and attitude. Though I would have to lean more towards the attitude as I have been lacking gratitude lately, which I must show soon. Anyway, enough rambling. Brittany Greer of The Greer 5 was so fantastic enough to nominate me for this award! How awesome and fantastic could that be? I could not think this to be cooler....though I wonder if she has ulterior motives....she is my little sister you know!? O.o

So here is my FANTASTIC award that I am going to show off and pass on to others as I nominate them as well for having super fabulous blogs that I love to read and share with others.

So the rules apply like so:

1. Have to post the smoking cool, fantastic, fabulous Logo (as seen above)

2. Nominate some folks for their blogs (all about sharing love in the bloggy blog world right?)

3. Have to hyper link your nominees....so others can go check them out too...see what all the fuss is about!

4. You must tell your nominee that they WON! Hello? How would they know if you didn't comment on their blog.

5. Finally Hyperlink the blogger who gave you such a wonderful gift.

Without further adieu here are my favorite folks:

Mrs. Singh over at A Spare and A Pair, this woman is awesome and knows all the crazy of raising multiples....love her!

Another Suburban Mom as she has a great Foodie Friday, she got Hub to blog, and the woman can make a great letter "A" with her ass and bare it on the net...Fabulous!

Lee, my Queen of reads! Love her and her wit, you can check her out at Moms Without Blogs as she is Queen there!

Angie with Seven Clown Circus....this woman is a hero with managing her kids and multiples and maintaining some level of sanity.

My dear friends Jade and Ty who are expecting their very first little lovable bunch of crazy! She blogs now about the happy joy of pregnancy and I can't wait to see her after baby is here! Love to this young woman.

M....I love M! She voices what I won't....why....because my in-laws read my blog and if I had her balls.....DH and I would be divorced for blogging like M. So I live vicariously through M. Love her bitchin' and moanin'!

I would hit up my sisters again......but they already got nominated so I am spreading the love evenly and all around. Thanks again ladies for being such a wonderful part of my daily routine and sharing your divine insight!

Love, Mrs. Fish