{"id":344,"date":"2008-12-31T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2008-12-31T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T22:35:42","slug":"beary-sweet-blog-award-tying-up-loose-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20081231-344.htm","title":{"rendered":"Beary Sweet Blog Award (Tying up loose ends)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a month ago, Becky @ <a href=\"http:\/\/boysrulemylife.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boys Rule My Life<\/a> awarded me with the &#8220;Beary Sweet Blog Award&#8221;  Since I was in the midst of seminar stress when she awarded me, I put it on the back burner&#8211;where it&#8217;s stayed for way too long!  So now, before the year&#8217;s done, I&#8217;m going to accept my award.  Thanks, Becky!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homemadegourmetmeals.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"images\/beary_sweet_award.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve received this award because I fit one or several of the following parameters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has an inspirational blog<\/li>\n<li>Blog is updated at least 2 times each week<\/li>\n<li>Shows faith<\/li>\n<li>Has a positive attitude on life<\/li>\n<li>Makes mistakes<\/li>\n<li>Shares real life stories\/experiences<\/li>\n<li>Enjoys blogging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point, I now have the opportunity to pass the award along to six other bloggers who meet at least one of the criteria listed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m awarding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arollercoasterride.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Emily @ A Roller Coaster Ride<\/a>-She&#8217;s smart, she&#8217;s funny, and she&#8217;s homeschooled.  How can you beat that?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeonsylvandrive.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Davene @ Life on Sylvan Drive<\/a>-I&#8217;m loving following Davene through the ups and downs of her pregnancy (baby #4)&#8211;and appreciate how real she always is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mynewplacetoblog.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Teresa @ You are Here<\/a>-she never, ever fails to crack me up<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erbhouselife.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Jolanthe @ No Ordinary Moments<\/a>-I love her kids&#8217; antics (and Jolanthe is pretty much Super Homeschool Mom&#8211;without pretending to be perfect)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/totallysurrendered.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grace @ An in-depth look at a teenage girl&#8217;s mind<\/a>-her random blurts\/rants on high school life, band, and politics rock my stockings off<\/li>\n<li>Okay, so I&#8217;m not giving out six.  I&#8217;m not sure exactly why.  I have about a dozen runner&#8217;s up and I just can&#8217;t pick. Sorry!  Look forward to getting picked next time!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once again, thank you Becky&#8211;you made my day by being the first person to tag me for a meme&#8211;and now for awarding me with my first blog award!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a month ago, Becky @ Boys Rule My Life awarded me with the &#8220;Beary Sweet Blog Award&#8221; Since I was in the midst of seminar stress when she awarded me, I put it on the back burner&#8211;where it&#8217;s stayed for way too long! So now, before the year&#8217;s done, I&#8217;m going to accept my &#8230; <a title=\"Beary Sweet Blog Award (Tying up loose ends)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20081231-344.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beary Sweet Blog Award (Tying up loose ends)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}