I can even turn a simple award into a novel...

Do you know who I am? I'm a grateful blogger who is time (and memory)-challenged.

I have received some lovely awards. I try to go immediately to thank the giver but then absentmindedly forget to pick my little gift up...
Imagine I've come by to borrow sugar. We get to talking and you tell me some great stories. Then I skip happily away with my cup overflowing. Not the measuring cup full of the sugar I needed-- that'd be left on your countertop. That's who I am.

So, before I forget again, I want to say thanks to the ones I managed to keep track of (and apologize to those I didn't).

Thank you AVT coach, who tried to throw me off her trail by changing her comment email link--but I found her anyway and instead of hiring someone to get rid of me, she gave me this award.

With it I am supposed to list six things that make me happy:

*Kissing the warm little faces of my children when they sleep *hearing their giggles and full belly laughs when they're awake *real mail * a surprise day off for the Hubby *hearing my husband's deployment is cancelled would make me happy--not happening though *staying in a clean, fresh hotel bed.

And on the same day, the same award from Cheshire Wife (which I find amusing because truthfully, I'm just grateful to be counted as one of her readers. We live on the same side of the planet and I love hearing about her world)

Here's six more things that make me happy so you can't accuse me of being lame:

*chocolate *cooking without miniature humans hanging on to my leg *painting *the sea-- calm or angry *snuggling with a pet, preferrably calm.

Straight to Your Hart made my miserable day brighter with this award. I could award it right back at her if she didn't already have it!

Angeline at All About Your Child has patiently waited for me to come by and get these out of her way (you're too good to me!). She deserves a kind blogger award, because when I began to try to tell you about her, the word kind and giving kept surfacing.


(ooh, one is not showing up, it's a flash player one--sorry)

So now the hard part...
I need to give them away.

Chris from Life...or a reasonable facsimile thereof. You already know I love your blog so I'm tossing the Kreativ award over to you. I think it will fit nicely since you are so Kreativ with your blog-- especially under the pressure of a 31-day blogging stint.

Moannie, from The View From This End, WOW woman. Your childhood stories take my breath away. It's like sitting down with a good book, so please, take the I love your Blog award!

If you already have it, lie to me. I'm only picking two recipients today (but I'll be back...) because I need to get to bed. I am going on a shopping trip with NO CHILDREN I'm sorry, was I using my outside voice just now? tomorrow (which was actually yesterday, thanks to blogger scheduling).

Thank you! And Thank you for all of your kind comments on my wreath. I learned that you all are the type of people who would tell me I looked good when I have spinach in my teeth, but I love you anyway.