A light sprinkling of awards

First, while we're on the topic of awards, I'd like to congratulate my mother-in-law, Nancy Langdale Hough, for placing as a finalist in the Tassy Walden Award for New Voices in Children's Literature! (They haven't updated the site yet, but you can read about how cool the award is. And sneak a look at a picture of me from the award ceremony last year. ;) Her MG novel, Wayfarers, is brilliant, beautiful, and well-deserving of the honor. Congratulations, Mama! (If you want to congratulate her yourself, stop over to our family critique group blog...)

Here's Zoe saying, "Hooray, Nana!"

Next, thank you to two bloggers who have presented me with blog awards...

Karen gave me this Sweet Blogger Award a whiiiiiiile back, but I'm so bad at getting to these things.
I'm passing it on to three sweet bloggers who always make my days cheerier with their posts and comments:
Molly at Writer Mama Dreamer
Myrna at Night Writer
and Kiki Hamilton.

And Priya gave me the Prolific Blogger Award.... I'm having a really hard time deciding who to give this one to, because it seems to have made the rounds....
Samuel Park gets it for being frequently inspirational...
and... I have to give it to Niki just because I enjoyed her A to Z posts so much. (Even though I now want to spend a few months in New Zealand.) (Even though I think she already has it!)
But I'm afraid I'm going to continue my rule-breaking streak and stop there. And the pass-it-on rule just became optional for both of them....like I always say about these rules: they're more actual guidelines.