Sunshine Blogger Award

I am thrilled and humbled to be nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award! This award is given to bloggers by fellow bloggers to encourage and support each other. It is also a great way to get to know each other a little better. Bloggers do have their own community and are always willing to help each other out with a follow or comment. We all need a little help to succeed!

My nomination is from Joyful Tiny Living. My good friends know that my dream is to own a tiny house on acres and acres of land with each one of my children having their own little home on the property. This property should be beside a lake with a beach for tranquility and on a mountain for hiking.

Well, Susan Lawrenz writes a blog about ‘tiny living’ ergo the name of her blog, Joyful Tiny Living. She is also a crafty lady, something I envy.

This award is given to bloggers who show creativity, positivity, and inspiration. Not sure how creative I am, but positivity and inspiration is something I am working on. Once a blogger is nominated, they are required to write a post in which they:

Thank the blogger who nominated them with a link back to their blog … which is a pleasure!
Answer the 11 questions asked by the blogger who nominated them.
Nominate 11 other bloggers and give them 11 new questions to answer
Notify your nominees and display the Sunshine Blogger Award in your post.

These are my questions from Susan:

What are your favorite ways to recharge your batteries? I don’t think that every fully happens, but I will say; sleeping, exercising and hanging with friends.
Coffee or Tea? If neither, what’s your beverage of choice? Grey Goose Cosmo with lemon is my favorite. Otherwise, I am a coffee lady.
What brings me the most joy in your life? Watching my children succeed in life. It used to be watching them play sports but they are mostly too old, so having them be generous, thoughtful adults is where it is at for me now.
If you could, would you go Tiny? Why or why not? SEE ABOVE!! Heck yeah!
What’s my best tip to stay focused on your blog? Stay off of twitter!!! I have fun and get wrapped up and next thing you know the day is shot…
Do you have a favorite holiday tradition? What is it? It was my family all wearing matching Christmas PJs but since they are mostly gone, I would say that I am just thrilled when we are all together.
What are your favorite blogging tools? Not sure what a blogging tool is so I would say making pins on Pinterest.
What is something you are most proud of? My children and my blog. This is the first time that I am actually venturing out to do something that I want to do; to make a difference in this world. I would like to spread a positive message and tell people they are not alone…It is my hope to help anyone I can.
What is your favorite social media channel and why? Twitter! It can be a lot of fun. There are some hilarious tweets and although I think I am probably the oldest in this bunch of beautiful moms and dads, I still watch my grandchildren ages 1 and 3, so I can totally relate and wish I had this when I was younger. They are a very supportive, pretty cool bunch of people.
What is your blog workflow? Do you have a system to keep on track or shoot from the hip? I try to have a system, but I am too easily distracted and have no time to myself, so shoot from the hip is my only choice.
What are your top 3 goals for 2019 and your blog? To just keep spreading the love and positive message. Also, shine awareness when I need to depending on a life circumstance. I want to start a successful advice column as I have lived through many life circumstances and feel I have a lot of wisdom to share and help others. Make some money so I can keep giving back to society. I want to help make this world a better place.

My questions for my nominees are:

Where are you from?
What is your favorite kind of music and who is your favorite musician/group etc..?
Who is your hero? and why?
What would your dream vacation be?
If you had to choose your final meal, what would it be?
What is your favorite season and why?
Tell me something about you that not a lot of people know?
If you could describe yourself in one word, what would it be?
If you could meet anybody in the world, who would it be and why?

I have always been somewhat of a rule breaker and march to my own beat, so I am going to break this one too and ask only 9 questions.