Thinking Blogger Awards

This meme is everywhere! It is amazing how it has exploded. Okay, maybe it is more like a maze of dominoes. Can you imagine trying to reconstruct this crazy maze of paths around the bloggersphere? Iker Yoldas started this meme on the blog post here.

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RULES

The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).

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WHO NOMINATED ME

I was first nominated for this award by Tina Williams last night. Here is what Tina said about me:

...because she is very supportive, creative and her blog is packed full of interesting tid bits of information!

Less than a day later, Lillie Ammann nominated me again! Here is what Lilli said about me:

...Even though I’m not a scrapbooker, her blog makes me think about and appreciate my blessings. She introduced me to faithbooking, a concept new to me.

So, although I would like more time to think about who to choose, I thought I had better hurry and get this posted before someone else tagged me! I do believe we are only allowed to be tagged once.

Thank you ladies for choosing me! I am honored and all warm and fuzzie!

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MY 5 NOMINATIONS

In no particular order, without further a-do, please allow me to present the following awards!

1. Speartoons is a Christian cartoon writer. I have been a member of his mailing list for a long time and was happy when he created a blog with his cartoons. I have watched his skills in relating his cartoons to daily life grow by leaps and bounds. His life application cartoons really make me think and analyze!

2. Sandy is a fellow LCMS'er that I met online through our common interest in digital scrapbooking. Her husband writes for one of my favorite magazines called "Good News." I enjoy her sharing her faith and life on her blog as her thoughts on faith always seem to be parallel to mine, only she says it way better than I would ever do.

3. Scrapgeek is an amazingly interesting lady as she works hard to find interesting things to share on the internet for digital scrapbooking, including new tutorials around the internet, as well as other resources. Oh, yeah, I ran into her when my sitemeter began showing hits from her! That's right, when I write a tutorial, she helps me share it with others. It really helps me to fulfill the purpose of my writings; that being to just bless others.

4. Mrs. Miles is super amazing in the amount of interesting things she finds to share on a daily post! She shares a digital freebie, to internet fun finds, to God's word, to personal rambling, and handy tips, and much more -- all on a daily basis! There is ALWAYS something for everyone on her blog. How does she do it? How does she find so many things of interest every day? I am in awe.

5. Wanda gets my award for the most profound thinking blog. Some of the things she shares really take me a while to digest before I finally 'get' it, but I enjoy the brain exercise!

Goodness, I had to many I wanted to include! I feel bad for leaving people out!