Sweet!

I'm thrilled that it's February 1st, it means we are that much closer to spring!  And I'm pretty happy that my house is smelling a lot sweeter today too...click here if that last statement made no sense at all!  I also think that it's pretty sweet that two of my favorite bloggers gave me awards recently!

The talented and witty Rebecca, or R as I like to call her, from Acanthus and Acorn gave me the Super Comments Award!  Thank you R, I feel like these days I haven't even gotten to comment much on other blogs, so it was especially nice to receive this wonderful award from you!  I always enjoy your blog, and who wouldn't want to comment on your great posts?!  Pop over to R's Blog and check our her new digs, she's been busy revamping her blog and it looks fab!

With this award I'm supposed to answer a few questions so here goes.


1.  Why do you blog?  Hmm good question, I think I'm a social person by nature, so blogging seemed like a natural way to connect with other like minded people who love decorating, entertaining, and staring at beautiful things online for hours!  What I didn't realize was how much I would enjoy it, and how many great friends and wonderful connections I would make along the way!


2.  Name your 3 best memories.  Wow, this is a tough question, I've been blessed with so many wonderful memories throughout the years!  I'll count giving birth to my children and getting married as 1 favorite.  Bringing home every puppy I've ever had.  And last, but certainly not least, every moment that we as a family have laughed so hard we've cried, (I'll have to tell you all my Chick Fil A drive-thru story sometime) those are the very best memories life can give us! 


3.  Name 4 of the best fiction books you have read.  Hah, as if I have time to read!  If you pressed me on this I would say Jonathan Livingston Seagull, any Harry Potter book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and George Orwell's 1984. 


4.  What are the 5 best movies ever made?  Another toughie, since I love lots of different movies.  Love Actually, Lord of the Rings, Amelie, The Sound of Music, Schindler's List, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Crash with Sandra Bullock, and Disney's Cinderella...told you I couldn't pick just 5!

5.  Name 5 things I cannot live without.  My family, my friends, my computer, my sleep, and my dogs! 

6.  If you could change your name what would it be?  Well I already go by so many different names, some people know me as Katherine, others call me Kathy, Kat or Kath, so I'm not sure changing my name would be a good idea at this point, it's already confusing enough!  I used to say when I was younger that when I had a baby I would name it Bob, but spell it Jim...your name is the only thing that no one can tell you how to spell or how to pronounce...fortunately for my children I outgrew that silly notion!

7.  Tell us a unique and interesting fact about yourself.  Not sure how interesting or unique I am but here's one little tidbit most people don't know.  I can't turn the palm on my left hand up.  In other words, where "normal" people can put out their hand and then turn it flat towards the sky to get change put in their hand or whatever, I can't do that.  My parents didn't discover it until I was about 3 years old.  My sister and I were sitting in an old car we had out back eating pixie sticks and I kept reaching across my body with my right arm to get powder from the pixie stick.  Finally she said "why don't you just use your left hand?"  I said "I can't it won't turn over, see...it only goes this far."  This was followed by her yelling for my mother and lots of X-rays at National Orthopedic hospital in Washington D.C.  It turns out the bones in my forearm are fused, a genetic defect, and so I can't palm up that hand.  It's presented little or no problems over the years, holding a plate in a buffet line is a little more challenging and I quickly learned that I couldn't serve a volleyball very well, and I shoot pool in the weirdest way ever, but other than a few minor inconveniences it's not been an issue for me.  Turns out I had a great uncle on my father's side who also had the same condition, but on both arms, so he was not able to serve during WWII because he couldn't hold a rifle properly, so it can be a benefit!  I've only met one other person with the same problem, my dear friend Dan's stepfather and I were chatting when I was in the UK and I said I couldn't turn my hand over, he said he couldn't either, and I thought he was joking, but he wasn't!  What are the odds, since it's very, very rare!

8.  What do you love best about yourself?  That I can talk to a blank wall.  I'm not sure others consider my constant chatter a gift, but I do!


9.  If you had a Freaky Friday experience, who would you change places with?  Wow, not only am I tired of talking about myself...you all probably are tired of me talking about myself too, but these questions are HARD!  I would probably want to change places with Mother Teresa or Gandhi, I think switching places with either of these two amazing individuals would teach me how very far I have to go in finding compassion and selflessness, and I think we can all use more of that in our lives! If I wasn't being altruistic I would change places with a pro big wave surfer or someone who has climbed Everest, that must be so thrilling to ride a 30 foot wave, or stand at the top of the earth!


10.  What is the best thing about being a woman?  Phew, I'm near the finish line on these questions!  I would have to say motherly love, compassion, gentility, and the ability to be kind while still being tough as nails.  Those are the things I love most about being a woman. 


Thank you R for this wonderful award and for making me think!

I also received the Stylish Blogger Award from sweet Kelley over at The Polished Peeble.  Kelley is a girl who lives life to the fullest!  She had an amazingly beautiful home and sold it lock, stock and barrel...I'm talking furniture, accessories, everything!  Now that takes guts!  Of course she's busy creating another beautiful space that I'm sure will rival her last home, be sure to check out her blog by clicking here!

Thanks so much for this award Kelley, and because I've said WAY too much about myself already today, I'll give it a rest and not say 7 more things about me, there isn't enough caffeine in the world to keep people reading more about me!

As always, I invite each of you to participate in these awards.  You can tell 'em I sent you the award in a lovely blue box wrapped in pretty white ribbon.  If you do decide to participate, pick either award and go for it.  For the Super Comments Award you simply copy and answer the 10 questions above and for the Stylish Blogger Award you tell us 7 interesting things about yourself!

Thanks again Kelley and Rebecca for these wonderful awards!

P.S.  The cupcakes came from a coffee shop up near my daughter called Buzz...yum!