“The Growing Self Blogger Award has been created to acknowledge and celebrate amazing individuals, in the blogging community, who are persevering through life’s challenges not only to GROW as individuals, but to reach out and help others GROW as well.” ~Roda
I feel truly blessed to have met so many wonderful individuals through this process called blogging! I had no idea this world even existed a year ago. I started blogging to deal with my personal pain and isolation and found a network of strong, funny, talented, artistic and kind human beings! Many of whom were dealing with life’s struggles just like me.
I never would have dreamed that the friends I have made in the blogosphere would help me in my “real world” relationships as well. I have been more open, more willing to try new things and, dare I say it, more trusting. Actually, I am still working on that last one 🙂
Many bloggers have been generous to me and nominated my blog for awards, and all of those are important to me. I admit, I am way behind! Embarrassingly so! I hope to start catching up soon. But one lovely human, one that I will never be able to put on the back burner, has nominated me for the award that she herself has crafted. Which makes it extra special! If you know Roda, then you understand what I am talking about! Her nomination brought tears to my eyes, so I will begin digging out of the backlog with “The Growing Self Blogger Award”
How it works:
- Put the award logo/image on your blog
- List the rules
- Thank the individual that nominated you and provide a link to their blog
- Describe the award and mention the creator: Roda – Growingself.blog
- Nominate up to 5 blogs. Remember, the purpose of this award is to specifically celebrate those individuals that have made a difference in your life or the lives of others.
- Give at least 1 reason why you nominated each individual.
- Notify your nominees of the award
Today I would like to nominate:
Sophie from Foodzesty
Monika from Everyday Healthy Recipes
Jay from My Truth is Now
Linda from Mainepaperpusher
Sophie- You are my long lost sister from Greece! No, we don’t look alike, I’m sure, as I have red hair, freckles and burn instantly so no one would ever confuse me for a Greek beauty! But, we connected so quickly and strongly from the instant we started messaging. You are so kind and considerate and inspire me to get into the kitchen and try new recipes. We have our mutual love of Rafa to bind us across time zones and you are the first person I think of when a tennis match pops up on my TV. Thank you my dear friend for all the emails and the beautiful post card from Greece!
Monka- I have learned so much from you! Your healthy recipes help me stay on track and fuel my, sometimes, insane workout schedule. I have found new ingredients and tried new techniques which have helped me grow my culinary repertoire. Thank you for putting up with all my questions! One day I will figure out how to get to your cooking site to share those recipes. You are so sweet to take the time to research my queries and help me navigate the blogosphere!
Jay- You are such a sweet man! You inspire me to read more than my usual “goto genres”. I am a creature of habit and will easily fall back on my usual authors. You have made me a better analyst, helping me look beyond the obvious and uncover the many underlying possibilities. I am honored to be a witness to your literary ascent! Please know that I am truly privileged to be a small part of helping you on your way 🙂
Linda-I know, I know, you don’t do awards. I also know that you break the rules when you feel strongly about something. Guess what? Your friendship is so important to me that I am breaking your rule! I am not nominating you to be irritating, but because I feel so strongly about the impact you have made on my life that I am going to talk about you whether you like it or not! So there! We have much in common, and I know if we lived on the same coast we would be fast friends. You inspire me to keep putting myself out there, we both know how easy it is it become isolated. Those of us who are a little too comfortable with alone time can become overlooked, as it were. And, we have the same sense of humor! Your Guest in Jest series is one of my favorite weekly posts! I would give just about anything to spend an afternoon with you drinking coffee, eating cookies and laughing our asses off. Thank you, my friend 🙂
And Roda….The only reason you are not nominated is because you nominated me! I will find you in Colorado, or Seattle, one day. And, hug the stuffing out you 🙂
See, you will NEVER be invisible again! Those awards are more than fair!
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Thank you, my friend💕
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Congrats 😊
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Thank you!
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Congratulations on your milestone ✌
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Thank you my friend 🙂
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Congrats….shine even more and love yourself…good luck.
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Thank you sweet lady 🙂
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Welcome
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Congratulations 🙂
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thank you Karin 🙂
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Beautiful! Thank you!💚💚💚
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Congratulations. Delighted to count you among my friends and I am so glad you are here with us 🙂
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I feel the same way with you, my dear friend 🙂
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Ah, my wonderful friend, thank you. It means a lot. You have been a great friend the last few months as we’ve become closer. You deserve this award, and I’m honored you thought of me. I appreciate all you’ve done to help promote and support me, and I’m glad I could give a little bit back in return. Life can be amazing, and finding someone like you is one of those reasons. Big hugs. xoxo
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Back at you sweetheart! I can only hope that I helped in some small way, you did the hard work 🙂
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Well deserved! Congrats!
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Thank you Diane, so appreciate your kind words 🙂
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Congratulations and thank you for your kind words! I don’t really do awards but I do appreciate your kindness and feel humbled by the praise I don’t think I really deserve:) Can I also say how envious I feel ever time I visit your blog of the beautiful sites you get to see and the amazing weather you are blessed with. Does it ever even rain there?!
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Haha, apparently it does. We saw some rain the other day but the really hard stuff comes down during monsoon season, which is in the summer. We are planning to come back then to see it, of course the last time, after monsoon season, we had tarantulas and scorpions in the house, not cool!
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Sounds dangerous and exotic!
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Your friends are so lucky to have you in their lives. You’ve said such sweet things. Congrats on your award! 🙂
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Oh, thank you!
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Congratulations on this beautiful award, you totally deserve it! ❤ Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Jo-Ann
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Thank you Jo-Ann, you are so kind to say this. Have a great weekend too 🙂
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Congrats!! 🎊
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Thank you 🙂
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Congrats! I’m glad you mention Linda as I met you through her blog and your collaboration in her Guest in Jest series. Love your photos too.
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Thank you Dominique 🙂
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Congrats! Blogging is definitely an interesting journey of growth and meeting some amazing people along the way! 🙂
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So true! I am amazed every day 🙂
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Hello there, as I am one of your readers.. I nominated you fro sunshine blogger award. Please check it out at https://missdlblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/sunshine-blogger-award/
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You are so kind! Thank you my friend 🙂
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Congrats Dee dee…Thank you so much and I love you!!!!!! huge hugssssss
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Back at ya! 😉
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🙂
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Well, guess what… I nominated you, too! https://dailyflabbergast.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/appreciate/11/
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Oh my gosh! you are too kind my friend 🙂
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Enjoy!
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Namaste.
I have tagged you in the TMI thread. Please check it out. It will be fun.
https://believepm23.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/the-tmi-tag/
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Oh thank you!
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Welcome
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Dee Dee, thank you for the kind words. I’ve been trying to figure out how to reply. Do I go against my “no award” rule? Hmmm…after a few days of pondering, I’ve decided to do nothing but tell you just how much I appreciate you! You, my dear woman, are an inspiration. You do it all with grace and elegance. It’s not easy to scale a rock face elegantly, but you do it! Next it’s a signature cocktail or amazing cookies or or or…the list goes on and on. I really cherish our friendship so much. I can count on your for a laugh or an insight. You are right, if we lived closer together we would get together for coffee and some laugh-our-asses off fun. I’ll make the coffee if you bring the cookies. You can break my rules all you want if you bring cookies. Love you, my friend! ❤️💕❤️💕❤️
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I will definitely bring you cookies my friend!
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🙂 yum!
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