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i think i thought i was Wonder Woman.
do you see all those snazzy ADS for AFRICA?
which means it's Roberta who wrote: congratulations roberta. :) but if i could just find a gold headband…red boots…star covered leotard… Hi there, I am trying to have an Africa ad and cannot pull up your email from my computer. Oh I have a Wonder Woman costume you can borrow…complete with Star panty leotard. Can’t wait to see what’s in the shop…you have been a busy bee…. I can’t wait to see what’s going to be in the shop! I feel like everything will sell so quickly though! I want those pillows!!! Heyyyyyyy…where’s the link to your scrapbooking? I’m more than ready for some inspiration tonight. Hi Meg. Congrats on your trip – mission work is exciting! If you are still taking advertisements I’d love to help you get to Africa! You go girRRRrRl! More power to you! Can’t wait for your etsy shop to open! I am ready to shop! Im newish to your blog so I have not seen your pretty things in your etsy shop until recently. I will keep checking back. i used to love that woman! You might be able to find wonder woman underoos on ebay… Not than any grown woman could fit in underoos…(But I sure loved mine as a kid.) I just found your blog and it’s a keeper. I’m in shock and awe over your home, ideas and just plain cuteness. I see plenty of great ideas that I will be shamelessly stealing from you. Please remember…..”Imitation is the best form of flatery”. Is that how that saying goes???? Oh well, you know what I mean I LOVE reading your blog…so inspiring. Will you be able to blog while in Africa, or will your kids be taking over your crafting/blogging affairs (he he, the thought!)? can’t wait. i am wanting another pillow or 2!! Is it just me? But I’m thinking nothing would be easy in a gold headband, red boots, and star covered leotard. Maybe it’s just me… Oh my lands alive, those pillows will be to die for! What budget?! I need me one of those pillows! Thanks to you and Courtney for the wonderful giveaway! I’m thrilled and can’t wait to receive the books! oh meg, i love how you so honestly admit you’re not wonder woman. I walk around thinking I can be if I try hard enough and then it is so hard to admit (usually amidst tears) that I am not when I get to the end of my rope. Looking forward to seeing the shop when it opens. Kelly I am gonna get me one of those pillows this time! Can’t wait for the grand re-opening! Congrats on all of the ads, I’ll go check them out now. i. want. a. pillow. i can’t wait to check out some of those links! happy 🙂 to see your happy 🙂 things list still on! your stack looks WAY more fun than mine – papers to grade! ugh! i’ll buy yours if you buy mine – ha! Meg, I think you ARE Wonder Woman!! I get overwhelmed cleaning up after just 1 child!! I just recently discovered your blog through the Homie Awards (congrats!) and I now check in everyday. Your home, family, photos and blog are just beautiful. I’ve been stalking your Etsy shop all day too! Can’t wait to get my hands on a pillow and a shirt for my daughter! Since we have snow day #2 tomorrow (11″ cripples us here in Richmond, VA) I’ll be checking out all your awesome sponsors. May God continue to bless you and your family! girl…you could totally rock a leotard. I’m swooning over those pillows! I’ll be stalking your store waiting for it to open! 🙂 Thats great news about the sponsors! I agree, you’re a wonder woman! You have FIVE kids and a nutty dog and I whine about my TWO kids and lazy dog lol! Wow, I am very impressed with the number of ads you got. Good for you! Hello! the ads look awesome!! i scrolled down through them all and they are beautiful! i plan to come back and look through all the links when i have a few more minutes. you are AFRICA BOUND!!! 🙂 So excited to see all those ads!! All that support! God is faithful! Makes me so happy! you must have a little bit of superwoman in you if you can make chocolate chip cookies and resist eating one… love love LOVE the pillows. . . i want them all but my hubby said only one. can’t wait for your shop to open! Hmmmm… I don’t know. I see a resemblance between you and Wonder Woman. :o) Congratulations to Roberta!! Congrats on your ads Meg. Truly inspiring! I just love your cheerful spirit at making cooking when you are doing a no sugar thing. You rock girlie!! Can’t WAIT for your shop to open! Loving those bright and happy pillows. One of the girls at a youth camp I used to volunteer at MADE HER OWN WONDER WOMAN SWIMSUIT. Complete with headband and those bullet-repelling wristlets. No kidding. It was awesome. I have a super suit for you, but it is size 5T. Meg – Do you sleep? 🙂 I think gold boots probably cure a world of ills 🙂 how funny! i used to love watching that show. somedays i feel like wonder woman others not so much. hope those cookies help 🙂 Cookies definitely cheer people up:) And cheering others up is always a surefire way to cheer myself up in a heartbeat! People on the Internet can wait – your grumpy kids need you and those cookies so much more;) Wow! I just spent time wandering through everyone’s shops. I’m not only excited to help you with your mission trip, I’m honored to be amoung such amazing artists! What talent! I got a Wonder Woman notebook from Target…maybe that would help. I have the rainy-day-Monday-blues and I decided that I would keep telling myself the line from My Cousin Vinny “A grit? What’s a Grit?”…it seems to be helping. I cannot wait for you to open your Etsy shop. I want a polka dot pillow so badly! 🙂 meg this spoke to me in my bible study [“frazzled female”]this morning, and i wanted to share. “when i am involved in a a task that causes me to be irritated, “praise focus” becomes a delightful challenge. i often paraphrase colossians 3:17 to myself. the verse reads ‘and whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.’ challenge yourself b/c you can be really creative with this one. like saying Lord, i praise You for my family who made this mess at mealtime and for a physical body that can still clean!! as you focus on the Lord and scripture instead of the “event”, you are empowered to glorify Him in everything you do!!” blesssings to you today!! the ads look great…go get’em wonder woman!! That picture of all your pillows makes me VERY happy. Holy Moly!!! I can’t believe that huge list of sponsors, it’s awesome! I have had your Etsy site on my computer all day long, I keep hitting the refresh button to see if it is stocked yet… it’s like waiting for Christmas to arrive. I can’t wait for it to open. I just know it’s going to be amazing. I just hope I am home when it does so I don’t miss out on anything!!! Good luck with everything. Thanks for the update! I have been checking on the hour since I woke up this morning, haha! Looking forward to it opening Ummmm….don’t think you can get away with it so easy….you are WONDER WOMAN, who’s running a little late. We’ll still be here when you are ready. No worries. And the ads are a great distraction….oh, so pretty! Now, off to say some prayers to the Random Number Generator Gods. Oh my goodness. So many sponsors on the side! I can’t wait to spend some time looking at all of them! sorry Meg – but YOU ARE wonder woman!!! i wish i had 1/4 of your energy! I am waiting for the doors of the shop to open!! you rock. thank you so much for the surprise package. How stupid of me.I meant to comment and I commented today on your very first post.. Silly me.. What a sweet thing for her to do! 🙂 I’m glad you got the package…I can’t wait to hear about your trip to Africa. I love that the web reminds us that it’s a small world and we’re all connected. But to your question, I have never scrapbooked. I am scared of it. I have a Fine Arts Degree (if I could find the box somewhere, pull it out and dust it off). How could I be intimidated by a little ole pieces of paper with pictures? Sadly, I am. If I won the books (which look fantastic) maybe I could face my fears. Pick me! I can’t even remember how long it’s been 🙁 At least 2 years 🙁 We were at Pine Cove in Texas and got iced in….got a little more done than I thought I would 🙂 But haven’t done a stinkin’ page since 🙁 My poor little Jake (who will be FIVE)….doesnt.even.have.an.album started !!!!!! So, please pick me!!! maybe that will give me some gumption to get goin’ again 🙂 Thanks for the chance!!!! Meg, when is your trip. It would be nice to help you get there by donating items to your shop for your trip. awwwww what a SWEET persoN! There are SO many precious people! and I do believe most of them blog! (or read blogs!) 🙂 I cannot wait for your shop to open! I just wanted to thank you for the Random Post a few days back, with your memory of the U2 concert. In that post you mentioned your daughter did not have her own cell phone. I showed it to my 14 year old, to prove to her she is in fact not the only teen on the face of the earth without a cell phone attached intravenously. Much appreciated. PS: She’s a really good kid. blog friends are real friends. That’s fantastic! Good job Julia Miller! That is AWESOME!!! I can’t wait for your shop to open 🙂 I love blog friends. How cool! I am diligently checking your shop for pillows!! Also, baby Levi is so precious – great job on the pictures! So sweet of her!!! how kind… That is awesome! Random acts of kindness are the best! What was is she sent?! Tell us!!! lol Awwww, how sweet…. but…. blog friends are the best! ———————————————————————————————————————— i want to see this movie.…craig doesn't. SHOCKING. I spent several months giving flu shots and I promise you, they’ve seen much crazier. (: A man once fainted AND lost his pants at the same time! LOVE Waffle. {I would’ve helped him slurp up those rolls, too, had I been there.} There’s so much to comment on in your post, but I’ll keep it short. This could be a beneficial link to you for creating and adding buttons: you make me smile…all the time. with everything on your mind it’s no wonder you had a few tears- you just needed a release. And going to Africa is huge and I’m sure overwhelming- no matter the intentions. oh meg, normal is sooooo overrated! What a pretty picture of you. 🙂 This post just made me smile from beginning to end. It is like I was sitting in your kitchen drinking a cup of your new yummy coffee:-) I think I should take a road trip to Kansas this summer…maybe take a side trip to see you on my way to my parent’s home in Illinois:-) Oh, I am so sorry for stopping you and making you talk at church! I had no idea that was the mess you were dealing with! If it helps, you guys didn’t smell, at all!! I love this random post where every thought that’s pouring through your mind gets recorded. Isn’t this just typical of the mind of a mom. So good to have one place to just get it all down : )!! When we were moving from Florida to Kentucky back in November, we were rear ended while sitting at a light. I had to fly back to Florida to meet the movers so the next day I went to the ER to make sure that I was okay. (just to have documentation if anything happened later) Anyway, I was tired, hungry, and sick of waiting at the ER (4 hrs. and counting) and when they put me back in the room, I started crying and crying and I couldn’t stop. I completely had a meltdown. It was 3 months worth of stress coming out of me. I was still crying when the doctor came in and I told him that I was okay blah, blah, blah. I was glad my poor husband was in Kentucky and not with me. I felt like a basket case. Don’t feel bad for crying. We all do it and we all feel bad for doing it. I felt like a new woman after crying for 45mins. LOL. your blog is super. so excited to find you. and so sorry about the cinnamon rolls! Thank you for sharing. It makes me feel normal. I must have seen you on Sunday *before* Annie got sick. I like it when you say hi to me. I feel like I’m in the presence of a celeb. 🙂 You do have a lot on your mind! I hope your week has something great in store, and that you see “Valentine’s Day” with your daughter – as long as this baby doesn’t come too early I’ll be seeing it with my mom! I want to see that movie, too. It sounds like you need a break, and that movie would probably be perfect. Sometimes just getting away from our problems and/or everyday chores for a couple hours in a movie theater does wonders. I’m due for one myself. Motherhood is grand, isn’t it? but, can you imagine your life any other way??? my other comment i don’t have a spell check sorry. about scrapbooking i met with 4 other girls once a month from 9am to 4pm and bag our lunch and of course we talk alot but we do get some scrapbooking done….believe it not!! cute photo of you Meg!! i think next week will be bad for me so go ahead and bake my cinnon rolls and lagana also(: the laundry NEVER ENDS does it. The cinnamon rolls…my husband did the same thing a couple of weeks ago! What is the deal with that anyway? But poop on the dress – that may have just made my day 😉 Mmmm…your poopy church experience is now etched on my brain, thank you. : ) Susan, from Between Naps on the Porch recently did a blog post with all sorts of wonderful advice including, I believe, a link to how to make your own blog button. I hope that helps! Scrapbooking somehow completely engages my ADHD to its full debilitating tendencies. um, meg. i blog stalk you and the pictures of your house inspire me every time i look at them….so i linked up to your page and stole the picture of you off of your about me so that people could see who i was sending them over to covet. I think this is my first time commenting. Love you, love your blog, love random posts! Your story about Annie reminded me of the time my younger sister threw up on me during church when she was little. I was like 17 and happily got to leave early too. OMG – We almost had a fire in our dishwasher last night, too! I have really skinny veins so I about pass out every time I have to have blood drawn so I know the feeling- I think we all just know it isn’t fun to get shots and then when it makes us feel gross, it gets overwhelming. have you seen Leap Year – it’s a wonderful chick movie. i was thinking of asking some girl friends to see the Valentine movie with me. I like you. i feel the same way as you do! i have so many things i want to get done…the list is so long and overwhelming for me. the every day to day stuff is hard to keep up on these days…our schedule is so busy and i think that is why i can’t seem to get things done…not even hours in the day. I love your randomness. Can’t wait to hear about the buttons. Love your blog format and will use it as a yardstick for my own. A very happy visitor, who will come back with her cup of coffee more often than I should. As we stood on the altar at our church during our son’s Christening (he had been fully emmersed, so he was naked, and wrapped lightly in a white towel), he proceeded to poop and saturate the white towel while the priest held him. I was mortified. Gives new meaning to the phrase “holy sh*t”. 🙂 I just blogged last week about hating the laundry, too: http://freshpickedwhimsy.typepad.com/fresh_picked_whimsy/2010/01/a-day-in-my-life.html on new year’s day, we nearly had a fire in our dishwasher— there was a turkey bone that ended up in there! boy, did the kitchen smell naaaaasty. love your blog, so cheerful and sweet. love this random post!! your blog is pretty!! and it is normal to pass out and cry when you get shots. Yeah…the poop thing…at church…gross. What a good Mom you are tho! Also, I know your going to be nervous and scared about the missions trip. But really…you will have an amazing time! I just went on my first missions trip in November…I was scared. Scared of non-flushing toilets, baskets next to the toilet where you put your USED toilet paper, bucket showers, being on a contruction missions trip when I know nothing about construction, and Im a girl, having to eat beans and eggs every morning, and lots of other things. But…it was so fun and I didnt want to come home. So not like me! I cant wait to go back. God really does know what he is doing! Not that this will change anything for you…but maybe it will comfort you for a second! Oh, goodness–I found this blog & now I will never leave. Sorry, you’re stuck with me. I hate laundry too. We have a house of 8 and I can’t miss a day. You and I are on the same page about scrapbooking. I took an entire year off because of family crisis and now I don’t know how to jump back into it. I think it’s wonderful that you are going to Africa, and I wish you the best up there. You will come back so blessed. Have a great day. i totally flopped & fell right off the scrapbooking wagon myself That is a great picture of you. Your Waffle story was funny! One time my lab Levi ate 11 assorted doughnuts that we thought were out of his reach. The really funny part was one was a cherry filled type and apparently he didn’t like the cherry and squished it out on the kitchen floor and ate the rest of the doughnut. Only bad thing was we were driving from Oklahoma to Houston the next day and just north of Ft. Worth he yakked all over. He is still infamous to my nephews as the doughnut eating machine! I miss scrapbooking, too! I felt more centered when I made time to scrap. But, now I think I’d have to give up sleep to fit it in our schedule. ugghhh! I’m with you. I think there is a bug going around…I picked up my little guy from school with the same problem last week. Not too pretty. My Wembley dog destroyed a bottle and ate the Dramamine from it last night… turns out he’s ok (they can have a little apparently), and he slept well… Loved your post today. How cool was that U2 concert!!! The poop/church incident made me laugh sorry… only because it has happened to me a few times too. : ) I’m going to africa with my high school this year, and just got my yellow fever needle. I want to see Valentine’s Day also. I’ve already told Hubby to be prepared, because we ARE going. Especially since he’ll be on business on Valentine’s day… he’s gotta make it up to me at some point, right?! Meg…did you get the link I sent you this morning on the button tutorial? I am still having some email issues— not just yours. But I don’t see where that one was returned. Thanks! Thanks for the pretty blog links! I want to see that movie too….my husband saw the preview and said “wow, there are a lot of people in that movie!” I took it as maybe he’d be interested in going with me! 🙂 hahah….I found this link from Little Miss Crafy Pants via Crap I’ve Made….it’s actually the best tutorial I’ve found, hope it helps! Oh my! Cracking up about Waffle. I know it wasn’t fun at the time but whew.. that reminds me of my parents Pug. They had left a hardee’s cinnamon raisin biscuit on the table for my brother when he woke up. It was in the little box it comes in and a brown paper bag. Needless to say my brother happened to be walking down the stairs as the dog had gotten on top of the kitchen table. And and ate Everything the cardboard box the paper bag and the cinnamon biscuit of course. We almost had a fire in our dishwasher once as well. A wooden spoon fell out of the rack on to the coil. I could smell wood burning and I thought the house was on fire. I was about to call 911 when I discovered the problem. Yes, it smelled awful! BAHAHAHA!! Oh Waffle! bad dog! Reminds me of my Wembley! Great post…I didn’t want it to end! Naughty puppy…even the best dogs have bad days. Mine ate a whole pizza off the counter once…it happens. I wish you luck with your laundry! I am in the same boat. Its a love hate relationship. 😉 I think getting distracted sometimes when completely overwhelmed is a good thing. I’m glad you wrote it out for us other mommies. Deep breath… you’ll get through it! That movie looks so fun , I would go with you , MEN! i want to see that movie too. thanks for the recommended scrapbook sites! great page ideas! i miss it too. Thanks for sharing all of this – I love to see what you like and know that these kinds of things happen to every (good)mom. Dear Meg…I have been on a trip to Africa, but I was in Malawi on a research project team through the business school I attended. I hated getting my shots, too…but, since there is no question they are needed, there are few if any options…but, you do have options for malaria pills (assuming you will have to take them where you are going). Mind you, I went in 2004, so things might have changed…but if not, take the more expensive pills, Malarone (sp?). My roommate did not, but I was still on my parent’s insurance at the time, so I did. She would wake up in the middle of the night screaming “Becca, Run!” in a horrific voice because she was having another psychedelic nightmare from her malaria pills. She would wake up the next morning and tell me about her dreams. Elephants in rainbow colors dancing above her in her mosquito net, and of course bad guys chasing…me. If you have a choice, it is really so much better for your sanity and those you travel with! 🙂 I can’t remember what her pills were called, but they are basically the same thing they gave the American soldiers in Vietnam, and one of the side effects is bad, but often realistic dreams. Ok, we have some of the same favorite scrappers!! I haven’t scrapped in sooo long. ugh. I am missing it too!! Nice post! Lots of interesting turns and laughs! I will bet you a tray of cinnamon rolls that my laundry is more depressing than your laundry right now! Poor Annie and lucky Waffle. Hope they are both feeling better, as I’m sure Waffle might have had a tummy ache after a panful of cinnamon rolls! Hope the rest of your week is on an upward turn. I get the same way when there’s tons of stuff going on. It’s way too hard to concentrate. Like right now, the guts of my disgusto laundry room are all over the kitchen because my husband finally hung up the new shelves last night and I just don’t know where to start to get it all back in. So what a better place than blogland with coffee? 🙂 My week just plain sucks, too. Probably next week also. I can’t wait to see the Valentine’s movie. And SO glad my hubby wants to see it, too. For the last few years, he said work and life are so intense, he just enjoys kicking back and watching “happily-ever-after” kinds of movies (with the occasional action movie thrown in). Yea for me!! I stumbled upon your blog when I was having a bad day (ok, week) and just couldn’t tear myself away.. your house/family look so fun! I’ve been reading your archives during my baby’s naps.. love all the colors. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this blog.. it really is so beautiful. Your random posts always crack me up. jason totally passed out on shot number two. out cold. for like 3 minutes. then he woke up and was certain the HE WAS GOING TO DIE. drama. so much drama. I had to drive him home and it took two weeks to get the courage to go back for the last shots. he wasn’t scared about going to uganda. he was scared about the stupid shots. that is reason #1 that men don’t have babies. I wish the Valentine movie came out before February 12! I’m ready now. Sorry, I have to admit to laughing out loud about Waffle…those cinnamon rolls must have smelled so good, whats a dog to do, haha! you’re so funny… i love reading your procrastination blog while i am procrastinating on my to-do list! Meg, thank you so much for adding that question about buttons! I have been googling for weeks and can’t find how to do it in typepad…. I still feel like a newbie in blogland. Oh man!!! That movie looks great! Lots of great people too!!! You could just drive down to OK or I could just drive up to KS and see it on Valentine’s Day…while our men watch some hoops 🙂 I’m sorry Annie had an accident on you…and that Waffle ate those wonderful cinnamon rolls….I’m also sorry that I don’t know how to help make a button for ads….COMPUTER STUPID I AM 🙁 I can’t even download pics from our new camera to the computer…..see, now do you feel better 🙂 Have a Happy Tuesday!!!!! Meg, Is it animated gifs your advertisers are after? If you let me know the dimensions and they get in touch with me I could create some for those that need it (it’s my job after all as a digital designer)… I could donate my time for free if they give extra to the cause? What do you reckon? ok, i want to see that movie too, but my husband is like your husband. i’ll drive down and we’ll see it together. wouldn’t that be fun. i’ll bring kasey with me. someday!! good luck getting that laundry done. i have piles ready to go. thing is, karlie does her own laundry and there is a load in the washer from yesterday. drives me nuts. oh well. Laundry is the never ending thorn in my side. I always wonder while I’m doing laundry how everyone else in my house has more dirty clothes than me. I think the worst are the ones that have to be put on hangers. I really wish you would scrapbook so I could see your layouts! I have been feeling sentimental lately and wanting more children, so I had to scan in all my daughters oldie pix (she is 10 now). I need to go back and scrapbook so many old ones toO! I would love to see that movie too! And there’s NO WAY I’ll be getting my hubby to go with me either! if you told me you wanted advertising space… let me know if you did not hear from me. thanks. I sent an email but did not hear back…I would love to advertise for 2 months. I have a blog designer creating a cute button for me. Please email me and let me know if it’s not too late. thanks!! 🙂 I did get your email.. thanks… it will take me a couple of days to put something together but I’ll get it to you asap! Thanks Meg and God bless! Just curious…any word on ETSY problems today? I have been trying to access your shop and am unable to get in today. If I try directly, I can get to the home page but not to any specific shop. I thought maybe as a “shop owner” you may have heard something. Is it too late to say I’d like to do two months of advertising on your website? And I’ll need visual help, because I’m inept, and my girls, who are…”ept?”…are too busy working and going to college. Hi, Hi Meg, hey…i got an email! and i am very happy about it. so excited to go on this “new journey” with I didn’t get a chance to comment on your original post so I’ll comment here. I think your trip sounds stretching but also very exciting. I will be praying for you as you prepare to go. thanks for voting. thank you!! Yippeeeeeeeeeeee! Way to go, Meg!! Of course, we all KNEW you would win! Just wanted to drop in and add my congratulations too! Very well deserved. Woo hoo!! Congrats! so happy for you 🙂 This just confirms why I have to tune in everyday. Great blog, I love it! congrats! congratulations! you definately deserve it!! I made those PW potatoes this week too and they are awesome. I also made the sour cream pancakes — didn’t really like those and the chicken friend steak which was okay but we don’t usually eat fried foods. Good luck on the no sugar thing — I’d never make it! Well deserved. I checked out the competition and all were nice, but I just love your blog and posts. Thanks so much for letting us into your life a little bit! Congrats! So exciting! This is awesome! Congrats Meg! Yipiee! I think you should get “a get out of no sugar resolution” for a day card and get to eat cake to celebrate! Definitely well deserved! Congrats! Yay!!! Congrats!!! you rock! Well done Meg!!!! woooo go you! 🙂 awesome! Congrats! a big fat WOOOOOO HOOOOOO! amazing amazing amazing! go you! Congratulations.I love your blog, it exudes so much love,warmth and colour. Cheers to such excellent sharing , Happy 2010 , look forward to more of your postings 🙂 Way to go Meg! It’s nice to know that so many of us women have such supurb taste in blogland. Congratulations! So glad you won. Congrats! congratulations….meg!! in your blog you are working for God and you are a blessing to him and so many others out there…so keep it up. So glad you won! Congrats! Yahoo! You’re such a deserving winner. Happy day! YAAAAAYYYYYYY! You totally deserve this! I’m blessed by your blog everytime I read it. Congrats! Oh my goodness! I just gasped! So happy. Congrats! I love your blog! Congrats!!! Congrats Meg!!! congrats! yay meg!!! WAHOOO Meg!!! Conga-rats! Of course you won. Of course I voted for you. Congratulations. I hope you know you so deserve it. Congrats Meg – that’s awesome! Congrats! You definitely deserve it! Happy things in 2010! Of course you did! Yay! I’m so happy for you. You deserve it, girl. Really. Ü Woo-hoo!! I’m doing a Charlie Brown happy dance for you! Congrats. I’m sure your insides are all warm and fluttery! I love your blog! Good for you! Oh My Gosh! No Way! That’s so AWESOME Megan!! I know a celebrity. Pinch me. Ha ha!!! 🙂 You totally rock! Congratulations!!! Congrats! I KNEW you would win! Your blog is one of my favorites! It makes me smile 🙂 Congrats Meg. You deserve it! Of course you did! You totally rock! congratulations! you deserve the award! Well done, Meg. I hope the Craig and the kids throw you a big (sugar-free) party to celebrate. Meredith xo. Congratulations!!! woo hoo! Your blog is so inspiring to me. Your house is my happy place. When I want a pick me up, I come to your blog 🙂 You brighten up blogland! Yay! Congrats! I’m so glad you won because I voted for you! oh yeah for you!!! so happy. i love your blog…. Yeah!!!!! Awesome! Congrats!! You definitely deserved to win! Congrats. Well deserved. Lovely blog! Congratulations Megan! sweet!!! Congrats!!!! Fantastic! Your blog has put many a smile on my face on days when I’ve really needed it – thanks for letting us in on the ins and outs of your life. 🙂 NIIIIICE!! So, is the next thing a book signing?!?!?!?! 🙂 Congrats, way to go!!! You deserved this. Congrats!!! Congratulations!! Well deserved ~ CONGRATS!!!! awesome! YAHOO!! I’m so glad you won! Do you get some sort of plaque to hang up here on your blog? Congratulations! congrats meg! Congratulations – well deserved!!! i only stumbled across you for the first time yesterday via the homie site because one of our local bloggers was nominated. you were clearly the best! i’m so excited that my favorite won! congrats! Yeah, Megan! I knew you would, yours was the best! You deserve this with all the work you put into your blog. Yaaaaaay!!! I am so excited! I voted for you (granted, you’re the only kids-at-home-focused blog I read. But only cause you’re the best! Yay Meg!!!!! Ths is great! YIPPEE!!! Knew you would girlie:) So deserved!! Congratulations!!! Well done! You deserve it, just started reading the blog and missed the vote due to traveling back from Germany to Italy! That’s great, congratulations!!! BTW, thank you for sharing the video of Rachel Barkey…It was a tear-jerker but so inspirationl, thank you for sharing…I personally needed to hear that! Yay! congratulations, you deserve it. 🙂 Congratulations Megan! You definitely deserved the win 🙂 Awesome! Congratulations!! I have to agree with Liz, your blog definitely brightens my day! 🙂 Well deserved. I usually don’t participate in stuff like that but I voted for you. Congrats Meg!!! *******************this post will stay at the top for awhile to keep you inspired….there is so much bloggy goodness to see!******************** i made it to the top six!!! now you get to VOTE for reals.
I voted! Meg you are amazing! I have spent hours on your blog site mesmerized. I hope i am half the mother and wife you are. oh my.. Keep up the great work. (: someone help. can’t figure out how to vote. registered and am clicking away but nothing is happening! Just voted. To be fair I did check out the other sites, but I voted first knowing that yours is my personal favorite. I check in with you everyday for great ideas. I love the format of your site and that there are no ads. You Rock Meg!!! keep up the awesome work. See you tomorrow. ha ha You’re number three now, woot!! Happy New Year to you and your family! Happy New Year, can’t wait to continue this crazy ride called life, so much fun getting to experience it with you guys. Thanks for a year full of inspiration… I voted! GOOD LUCK!! In my opinion, you’re the one to win this category. What I love about your site: NO selling advertisements!!, no stealing from other sites (if you share, you send us to their site), lots of rainbow color, so happy, fabulous photos-always, lots of fun things to do and share with family, sharing life as a Mom with/for other Moms—and the list goes on. Keep up the excellent work Meg! I know it’s tough working on a blog daily. Just remember there’s a bunch of us out here in blogland reading daily–even though we don’t comment every day. Hugs–Duchess Congrats MEG!!!!! I just voted for you !!!!! hope you had a great christmas and this new year is awesome for you !! I wish we could vote more than once! – you rock Meg! Happy New Year! Voted! CONGRATS!!!! Congrats Meg…nice way to kick off 2010! Hope you and your lovely ones have a Happy New Year. Meredith xo. i saw that… SO happy for you! Done and done!! okey dokey, just voted for you:) oh my word…am i dork or what I voted! 🙂 I found you on the Hommies website. Cute blog! I’m planning to look back through all your archives!! just voted…..good luck!!! Woooo Go meg!!! I forgot that I wanted to add that my hubby got me a plaque from hobby lobby with phil.4:8 on it! How cool is that?!!! ~Theresa just came over from bushelandapeck…love your blog will now be following, oh and I voted before I came back here, GOOD LUCK!! ~ Theresa I just voted and had my friend vote as well! woo-hoo! you deserve a tiara and some flowers. I just looked-you are a contender!!Good luck Meg!! Congrats Meg!!!!!!!! i am feeling stupid about now… i registered so that i can vote for your blog & CAN NOT figure out HOW to vote . =( can anyone help me with this? Done. 🙂 |
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Cheri - Thank you so much for sharing. Your photos are so amazing– I felt in some small way I was there too.
Mama B - Thank you for sharing your pictures of Freetown. I was there January 25th thru February 6th with a team of dear friends from my church. We went to serve the Lord AND love on my daughter who is a missionary in Freetown. We share some of the impressions of Freetown but I also saw hope in people. Families working HARD to make a living and educate their children, to improve their conditions and caring for others. I LOVED the Sierra Leone people. They are friendly, warm and open. I got to experience the birthing of a new church in an impoverished neighborhood; hungry for the Word, rejoicing in the Lord and seeking Him. It was humbling and hopeful!
s.t. - I’m from a third-world country & I’ve been/seen more shocking (for lack of a better term) places than you’ve shown. It’s very sad, overwhelming, humbling & much more. The “hardships & struggles” here in America is NOTHING compared to other places in the world! We have SO MUCH to be GRATEFUL for & NOTHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT!
Valley - You make me proud….
I find myself crying and smiling at the same time!!
((((HUGS to you)))))
Valley
Juliann H. Beidler - If I didn’t know that these were photos from your trip to Africa…I would think they were from every trip that I have taken to Honduras. This is the way the majority of the world lives…or worse..unfortunately…
julia - I didn’t even notice the man with the coal on his head until I read your notes. Unbelieveable. It’s really good that you have your pictures. It must have been completely overwhelming. Now you can take it all in.
Thank you for sharing these.