Now my cup truly runneth over!  Yours truly is the proud recipient of not one…

oh no…

but two, that’s right, I said it, count ‘em two blog awards in the past few days.

I’d like to thank the academy…oh wait, wrong prepared speech.  I’ve been working on that one for so long…

Honestly, I’m tickled, I’m thrilled, and I’m touched that my fellow bloggers took the time, not only to read my little piece of cyberspace over here, but felt compelled to pass it along to others.  So let me try my speech again.

Ahem, I’d like to thank Angela over at My Book Barn and Lazaro at Lazaro Cooks for this wonderful honor.  Angela has  a great little site over there and if you’re a fan of reading, like I am, I swear, when I have time, no I mean it…I can read!  Not to mention Lazaro, who is always cooking up something beautiful and delicious.  Please swing by and check out both of them.

So today, ladies and gentlemen of the academy?  Oh no wait, I did it again didn’t I?

Uh, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press?  Nah, that’s not it!

So today my dearest bloggie friends I will feature my girl Angela’s award (Lazaro’s will be featured next week)

Well, I’m honest and I’m scrappy.  And I love to scrapbook so that works too, huh?  The deal with this one is I need to list 10 honest facts about myself then pass this along to ten lucky fellow bloggers.

So away we go.

Ten Honest Things:

1. I am the proud proud Mother of three little boys, and yes I assume there will certainly be a place for me in heaven…

2. I love to cook…duh.

3. I am a card carrying member of the Jon Bon Jovi fan club…

4. I love sports, hockey, baseball, football…good thing too (see #1)…

5. I can recite the entire screenplay of any John Hughes film…go ahead test me.

6. I am truly thankful for all the wonderful online bloggie friends I have made over the past few months…

7. I’m a closet scrapbooker, though I haven’t had much time for it recently…

8. I love the smell of a fireplace in the rain…

9. I married my best friend…insert “awwww” here…

10. I’m afraid the end of the line is near from my old old bullmastiffs, 11 and 9 1/2 years old…sniff sniff

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, I will now pass this award on to some of my favorite blogs to hang out at, grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a good read.  And the Oscar goes to, I mean the lucky winners are…

Shell over at Things I Cant Say

Cheryl at Deckside Thoughts

Lacie at Creative Attempts

The Whispering Writer at The Whispering Writer

Becca at Drama for Mama

Vodka Logic at Vodka Logic

Cathy at Antsy Pants

Debbie at Suburb Sanity

Denise at Run DMT

and last but certainly not least…

Dumb Mom at Parenting by Dummies

So there you have it, some of my honest to goodness very favorite blog reads.  Please go and check out all of these hard working and amazing bloggers.  They have some great stories to tell.  And huge thanks again in Angela at My Book Barn for thinking of me.

Stay tuned for next week, when thanks to Lazaro at Lazaro Cooks who gave the this sweet award

I’ll be passing those along to my absolute favorite recipe/food blogs!  Have a great weekend.