the brew*crew adventure

A sweet new friend of mine, Julie, of Seeking the Old Paths, has recently awarded my blog and I with this most excellent award! Thank you Julie, you've made me smile! What timely encouragement it has been and now I shall do the same for some of my favorite blogging pals...

By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you have to award it to 10 more people who’s blog’s you find Excellent Award worthy. You can give it to as many people as you want but please award at least 10. Thank you out there for having such great blogs and being such great friends! You deserve this! Feel free to award people who have already been awarded…

I hereby bestow the Excellent Blog Award upon the following excellent bloggers... thank you all for the various ways you've encouraged me over the years. I do hope to find more time to visit you all and read your blogs more regularly in the future (note to self: figure out how to use the rss feeds, it would help). So, without further ado, and in no particular order:

1. Leslie, aka. Tim's Mom, of Bona Vita Rusticanda, who really doesn't live very far away from me at all and I still do hope to get together with sometime IRL (since it's been like a year since we said we were going to... I'm thinking it may have something to do with the fact that we're so much alike- procrastinatin', no-phone-talkin' homebodies*lol* ...and life is so busy).
2. Jenny of Under His Wings, my email and snail mail friend, who always challenges and inspires me (and even knitted my baby girl a blanket!). I love to ponder the things of our Lord with you dear sister.
3. Birdie of Wings and Prayers, who I met during our mutual times of loss and continued celebration of new life. I'm so glad that we found each other when we did friend, what a blessing it has been to walk beside you.
4. Athena in a Minivan who is so down to earth and always makes me laugh.
5. Firefly, of Bioluminescence, whom I'm so glad to see glowing again... and who also supports Ron Paul, oh yeah!
6. Barb, who always inspires me with her Book of Days and red-headed boy that could be N's twin.
7. Susie, my IRL (in real life) neighbor and friend, who lives By the Creek and thinks I'm sassy.
8. Carla of More Books and Things, my witty-kindred-spirit Canadian sister who is a much better pen pal than I, and whose blog I must admit, I don't keep up with very well (prolific researcher and blogger that she is). I know her to be most excellent via email, snail mail, and her now private, beautiful family/picture blog (which I do keep up with, and it's excellent too). It always amazes me how uncannily she knows just what I need to hear, right when I need to hear it. Her timely words have brought me healing tears, and her dry sense of humor has caused me to burst out laughing out loud numerous times, bringing childrens' exasperated inquiries to know "what's so funny Mom?!". And our daughters have now become more faithful penpals than we are. I can never keep up with all of her deep musings at her MB&T blog, makes my head spin, but it's excellent anyways...
9. Carla Lynne of Joys in the Journey, who's been a delightful encourager and inspiration in my blogging journey ever since I met her in our homeschoolblogger days, which would be before our homesteadblogger days. It seems I'm always learning something new when I visit your blog.
10. Dana, of the very smart Principled Discovery, whose old blog is now her new blog, Simple Pleasures (so glad you started this one!) and whose new blog is really her old blog... did ya get that? They are both excellent! I just love to stop by them both, one for sipping chai and catching up with my ol' blogging bud, the other for keeping up with great discussions over what's going on in the bigger picture concerning education and politics, etc. I'm always learning something when I stop by there to pick her brain. I met and became friends with Dana during our homeschoolblogger days, before she was such a famous blogger/writer (and merely dreamed of being published, and quoting herself). Hah! I'm so happy to say she's her same genuine self. This is another friend that I wish I could keep up with better (reading-wise I mean, wouldn't even dream of writing as much... wondering how do you do it girlfriend? ...gifted I tell ya!)
11. Andrea, whose AtypicalLife often leaves me in stitches *lol* (that would be laughing out loud), and whose hubby and her have a knack for do-it-yourself-why-did-we-buy-this-house-home-project-house-renovations like we do, and whose hard work helps keep my blog around.
12. Randi of i have to say... who taught me how to make my first quilt, and whose lovely blog is always a feast for the eyes as well as the soul.
13. Brandy, whose Variety Garden Blog is always a joy to peruse, and whose family garden is expecting another sprout soon! Congratulatons!!!
14. Tina of Our Life who is so down to earth and it seems I have so much in common with at times... when I make way over to her place, I'll usually find myself nodding knowingly. She has a knack for blogging about those interesting little everyday occurrences that I can totally relate to.

Wish I had more time in my days to keep up with these talented ladies, and all of the others who I simply cannot even fit on this list... for even now I'm thinking of more excellent blogs I know and visit, but alas... I must call it quits for now. I've already been here too long. Need to get hoppin' 'round here.

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