The Illuminating Blogger Award and the One Lovely Blog Award
I am so touched to have had two people give me awards just yesterday. It always touches me to have people who read my blog think it is worthy of an award. I am most humbled by their gesture. I know some people think the blog awards are meaningless but to me…they are the highest honor there is for you all are the ones that read my blog and that makes you the best judges of all. Thank you from my heart.
Illuminating Blogger Award
Kelly Ann gave me the Illuminating Blogger award. Her blog is awesome and I hope everyone will go check it out. It is located here:
As part of the award you must leave a comment on the original award site which is here: http://foodstoriesblog.com/illuminating-blogger-award/ and be sure to mention who nominated you! You need to choose a random fact about yourself to share and choose 5 bloggers to pass the torch to.
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~~~~~~~~AND, “spilledcookies” gave me the One Lovely Blog Award and I am truly touched by it too. I hope my writing does inspire others and help them get through life’s journey. I hope you will read spilledcookies’ blog. It is great too and is located here:
The Rules for Award participation are:
- Link back to the blogger who nominated you.
- Paste the award image on your blog, anywhere.
- Tell them 7 facts about yourself.
- Nominate 15 other blogs you like for this award.
- Contact the bloggers that you have chosen to let them know that they have been nominated.
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I am going to combine these two …..so here goes:
Interesting fact about myself: I drove a Semi at one time. 🙂 I am a believer in getting out there and trying things if you really want to do it and so took the truck driving course and drove a semi.
7 Facts about myself:
1. I have a wicked sense of humor and love to laugh…even at myself
2. I have to hide the remote to my hospital bed from my dog because he likes to push the buttons and wake me up in the middle of the night thinking God is taking me to heaven.
3. At one time I canned and baked all our food and we only bought staples like flour, etc from the store.
4. I believe you are the master of your own happiness.
5. I traveled to Italy a few years ago with a church group. It was the most awesome experience and is a dream of mine to return.
6. I do not like to eat out. I prefer to know what I am eating LOL
7. “Julie and Julia” is my favorite movie because I just love Julia Child.
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I give the Illuminating Blogger Award to the following blogs. I hope you will go read them all for they are really great blogs.
http://lifeinthedashlane.wordpress.com/
http://doyoumeanwhatiknow.wordpress.com/
http://francineinretirement.wordpress.com/
http://silentlyheardonce.wordpress.com
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and I give the One Lovely Blog Award to the following blogs. I hope you will check them out too for they are really great blogs too.
http://cobbies69.wordpress.com/
http://waitingforthekarmatruck.com/
http://daphneshadows.wordpress.com/
http://jennysserendipity.wordpress.com/
http://drmsyoga.wordpress.com/
http://diggingher.wordpress.com/
http://believeanyway.wordpress.com/
http://chrisdonnermysterywriter.wordpress.com/
http://ceeslifephotographyblog.wordpress.com/
http://silentlyheardonce.wordpress.com/
And to all of these I say Congratulations!
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And now I can add author to that list for my first book has been published and is on Amazon for sale now. Here is the link: My First Book Published
If you want it real….read my blog. If you want all fou fou and fluffy sweet..it is not here. 🙂
danLrene is a quirky, funny, eclectic, happy, compassionate, caring, hippy, country girl and most of all a God-loving person who just also happens to be a writer, a poet, a photographer, an artist, the queen of bed dancing, hairbrush singer extraordinaire, once a cook..now the taste tester, once a gardener and now a gardening adviser and the keeper of danLrene older than dirt wisdom.
My goal is to have people see me and think “I want what she has that makes her so happy”. Happiness is a choice..a daily choice. We are either survivors or we are victims. I am a survivor. Survivors focus on the solutions and ways to have a better life while victims are still talking about all the problems.
I will not lie and tell you life is all roses because it is not. Some days I can not move and lay on this bed in agony and some days I am able to sit in my power chair for a little while. But no matter what kind of day, I look for something good to focus on whether it is my dreams, my daisy, my son who is so good at taking care of me, my other son and DIL and my Sweetpea, my family, my friends on line…no matter what..there is always something good to find in life if you look hard enough. Just remember it is how you think that determines what life is like.
“If you think you can or you think you can not, you will be right.”
I will be 67 this May of 2016. Life has been a journey of health issues since before I was 31 . I have a warrior attitude. Being a warrior does not mean you always win. It means you never quit trying. Life is what you make it and I choose to make mine as happy as possible no matter where I am in life.
I am blessed in that my oldest son is my caretaker and a great one at that. He has given up much to take care of me. He is an awesome caretaker and is always looking for ways to make life easier for me. I truly am thankful for his care. He is writing a book talking about “My Mother’s Keeper”..and I think it is going to be wonderful for so many are having to take care of their parents today.
My name is not chronic illness or disability. Can you really see me or do you see my health? I hope you see me and my spirit.
Our baby Daisy. Daisy came to us from a dear friend after our Jack, as so many of you called “Wonder Dog” because of his blue cape, walked on to the next world. And Daisy is such a joy and makes us smile and laugh.
Son and Daisy
My one room world from my hospital bed-it is filled with warmth and love from so many. Son designed my “Command Central” as he calls it. It is a long narrow table by my bed with a little flip down desk where I can sit on the edge of the bed and eat or I can sit up and type if I want to but I am “tummy typer supreme” as son calls it and many wonder how I type laying down like I do. Necessity is the mother of invention. My room looks into the kitchen where I can see son puttering around cooking as he is master of the kitchen now. 🙂
I still dream of going back to Italy, of us having one of those shuttle buses with a lift for my chair that son can convert into a motor home for us to make it easier when I have to go to Denver for surgeries and stuff. I still dream of learning how to tap dance…yes even on these crutches or laying on my hospital bed, just so I can say I did. All I need are a pair of size 11 tap shoes and a board at the foot of my bed. I dream of many things.
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Ever since I was a little girl, I was told I was a dreamer. I can remember report cards with “day dreams” written on it. I think dreams are what keep us going. Without dreams…we have no hope. I dream of many things and I dream for many of you.
Follow Your Dreams, The Siren Called Out To Me
As I closed my eyes and fell deep into lovely sleep.
The dream siren called me with a promise to keep
I closed my eyes and looked deep in my soul
I could feel the wind blowing…it was so very cold
My dreams I had carried through year after year
They will never come true was my biggest fear
Wandering up one lane and down another
Remembering my dream since I became a mother
Land, open land and a place to be free
A small house to live in with a big evergreen tree
We mounted the buckboard with all we owned inside
And started over the mountain on this crazy dream ride
We felt like pioneers racing to the finish line for land
And the whole time we knew -The Lord had our hand
So do not be afraid to dream your dreams and try
Life is too short…open your wings up and fly
Dream I say and work the dream hard as you can
For it will be the best race that you ever ran.
© danLrene 2011
We all have dreams of what we want out of life. I remember Laverne on Laverne and Shirley saying her dream was to have a purple cashmere sweater. Well, our dream is to own land in the country and have a simple life style unencumbered by so much of what is in the world today. We have accomplished that dream in that we live on the outskirts of small town America in a much smaller and compact house but it has all we need: a cottage that visitors say they love because it is so serene here.
I love to write and have written for years. And hopefully will continue to write for many more years. This blog is about our journey getting here, our life after we reached the promised land and different middle of the night ramblings, posts to inspire others to keep fighting and keep living. Dreams are like cooking…we might get our grandparents old recipes, but we tend to alter them to suit ourselves. But, dream we must…for as long as we have hope in life…we have dreams. And even plain ole everyday people get dreams that come true. 🙂
I hope you enjoy and will subscribe and share my journey. Come join us at the foothills of the mountains where we have found a life of simplicity and serenity, in spite of all the health trials of one disabled woman and the courage of a son that chose to take care of her.
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Thank you!
Congrats and thank you so much. You are an inspiration 🙂
Congratulations!! I am thrilled that you are receiving these well-deserved kudos! I hope they bring as much joy to you as you bring to others. Thank you for nominating me for an award. I am humbled and grateful and will post my thank you today!!
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Bravo, Bravo, well earned, deserved and congratulations… I am honored as well. Best of all things dear one… thank YOU
Thank you so much I will be working on them as soon as i can. 😀
you are are welcome. 🙂
Congratulations on your awards! Your inspiring blog deserves every single one of them. And thank you so much for including me in your list of lovely blogs. Truly honoured.
You are so welcome Madhu. I love your blog and your pictures.
Very well deserved, you have a very illuminating and enjoyable blog. I feel very honoured to be part of your world and thank you also for nominating me, I will try post a thank you as soon as possible. again thank you 😉
Thank you so much and your blog is very worthy too. 🙂
Congratulations!
That’s awesome that you were awarded with these – you most definitely deserve them! I love reading your posts! 🙂 Thank you for nominating me and thank you for your inspiration! Oh – and I love how you have to hide the remote to your bed; that’s too cute! Although I highly doubt its cute in the middle of the night. 😉
oh he is a character. I swear he just sits there with that doggie grin on his face and is laughing at me cause I am saying “God? God? Is that you?” as my head and feet start going up. 🙂
and you are most welcome. I enjoy your blog.
LOL I love dogs’ personalities! I guess they’ve gotta have a little entertainment every now and again… My puppy enjoys stepping on my tummy in the middle of the night when he has to go out. It’s so cute because he gets all hesitant and slowly puts pressure on me with his two front paws like he’s trying to wake me up without a startle. That and he likes leaving rocks strategically placed all over the house so I’ll step on them.
Thank you thank you for thinking of me 😉
Happy Friday and all the best in life, Jenny
you are so welcome Jenny. You have a great blog.
So many congrats for your awards!! You deserve them very much! thanks so much for passing One Loving Blog Award on to me.
You are welcome Cee. Glad to hear you are doing better.
What a great post … congrats on your nomination 🙂
Thanks. I fell really honored and thank you for creating awards. 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS! Glad to see you receive these wonderful awards. Your blog is both illumination and lovely. I feel humbled and honored for being nominated the Illuminating Blogger Award from a woman of strength and courage and inspiration such as youself. I admire you very much. Thank you.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!