I Won An Award!

Esther over at The Mommy Diaries gave me an award! Thank you so much! I'm so excited because I love getting awards and it gives me something fun to post about today.

Anyway, here are the rules:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link to their blog.
2. Share 10 honest things about yourself.
3. Present this award to 7 other whose blogs you find brilliant in design or content.
4. Tell those 7 people they have been awarded.

Here goes...10 honest things about myself...

1. We have lived in our house for 6 years now, and I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never cleaned the oven. It’s not self cleaning and I just don’t know how. I bought some oven cleaner, but I’ve just never followed through and actually cleaned it. Any volunteers?

2. I always save the best bite of food for last and it doesn’t matter what I’m eating in order for me to do this. If it’s a hamburger, I will constantly rotate and reassess the burger to make sure that the very last bite will be the one that is perfection. If it’s a bowl of strawberries, you better believe that the juiciest, plumpest strawberry will be eaten last. For this reason, I don’t particularly like to share my food!

3. I love shopping online. My favorite places are Children’s Place and Amazon. In fact, I’m price stalking a Christmas present idea (an art easel) for Jackson right now. My source over at Baby Cheapskate thinks the prices will drop around Black Friday. I’ll be waiting!!

4. Although I hated the show when it first came out, I gave it another shot and fell in love with The Office. It absolutely cracks me up! It has some of the best one liners that I’ve ever heard.

5. I’ve never watched more than 5 minutes of Grey’s Anatomy or Lost. I couldn’t get into either show and I’ve never looked back.

6. I’ve had the same email address since 1998. It’s a reference to when I was on the Auburn University Marching Band Flag Corps. Even though I haven’t twirled a flag in a football game in 10 years, I am still extremely critical when watching flags perform. I know it’s a major character flaw, but I’m so judgmental when watching someone twirl that I can’t really enjoy myself. And I can still twirl a flag like no one’s business. I know this because I have one at my house and occasionally I go in the backyard and see if I still have it. I do.

7. I have never done an actual back bend in my life. I can do the “push up on your hands from the floor” kind, but I have never been able to convince myself to do the “standing up and just bend backwards” kind. I’m terrified of hitting my head. I’ve also never done a back dive into the swimming pool, although I have been able to teach people how to do that. Go figure.

8. My hair is unilaterally opposed to going into a ponytail without causing me lots of problems. Sure, I throw my hair up into a ponytail when I’m at home, or maybe heading to Wal-mart, but 9 times out of 10 I will have my hair get kind of lumpy on top and it drives me nuts. I know it’s my OCD going into overdrive, but I can’t handle lumps in my hair!

9. Of all the Disney movies ever created, I refuse to ever see Dumbo or Bambi again. They are just about the most depressing movies in the whole world. Isn’t a cartoon supposed to be fun and uplifting?

10. I’ve only had one cavity in my entire life and it devastated me. Every time I go to the dentist now I am so afraid that I’m going to have another. I hate that one little silver filling in my mouth and I tried to talk my dentist into removing it and replacing it with a filling that is the same color as my tooth. She didn’t see the need because it’s all the way in the back of my mouth and no-one sees it anyway. I still wish it were gone.

Now, I'm awarding...

1. Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity
2. Ashleigh at Heart and Home
3. Missy at It's Almost Naptime
4. Tonggu Momma at Our Little Tongginator
5. Lianne at Socks Are Not The Enemy
6. Kristin at We Are THAT Family
7. Kathering at Grass Stains

Congrats and have a great day! We're heading to Starkvegas so I'll catch up with y'all later!