Liebster Award

Eva at Academia Celestia awarded this to me--thank you!  An award for those of use who love to blog because we love the art form, not because we have a lot of followers. Here is the description:

"Liebster is a German word, meaning dearest or beloved, but it can also mean favorite. The idea behind the Liebster Blog Award is that it is given to bloggers who have less than 200 followers in order to create new connections and bring attention to these wonderful blogs!"

Add the award to your blog.

Thank the giver with a link back to them.

List your top 5 picks and let them know they've been given an award by leaving a comment on their blog.

Hope that your followers will spread the love to the blogs you've spotlighted.

I am awarding this to:

• Talking to Myself
• Grace in Loving Chaos
• School for Us
• Beginning with the Assumption

Well, I listed 4...

Versatile Blogger Award

Thank you, Annie, from Learn At Every Turn, for this award! She has a great blog with lots of science resources, as well as stuff for other subjects.

For this award:

• Tell 7 things about yourself
• Pass it on to other versatile bloggers

 Here are my 7 things:

•  I love writing; that's why I am a blogger more than anything else in the social media world.
• I very much enjoy teaching, especially through inquiry.
• I could spend all day working on a new Zome model design.
• I would like an iTouch but not until they come down in price.
• I think the most versatile machine would be a tablet PC the size of a netbook--like a laptop and an iPad all in one--and still priced around $300.
• Streaming instrumental music from Pandora is my constant companion at the computer.
• I am Catholic, humbly faithful to the Magisterium, who thinks Evolution is a solid scientific theory that well explains the origins of species to the best of our scientific knowledge today.  That does not make me a deist; God is very much involved with His creation, and has been from the beginning.

I mentioned a lot of great blogs in the recent Blogger of Substance award.  This time, though, I will pass it on to a few, and simply list some other outstanding blogs I love to read but are not really candidates for award memes:

Rockhound Place
Academia Celestia
LaPaz Home Learning

Unity of Truth
The Deeps of Time
Science Notebooking
Notice the Universe

A Blogger of Substance Award

Thank you, Alex, from Serendipity Home School for A Blog With Substance award!  Hopefully this blog will have more substance when I finally fill in those tabs, lol!

Here's how this award works:

• Thank the blogger that awarded it to you.
• Sum up you blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience using exactly 10 words;
• Pass it on to 10 other blogs with substance.

My summation sentence:

Sharing science resources with other homeschoolers returns many more blessings.

Here are at least 10 blogs where I find all kinds of thought-provoking and helpful material on them:

1. Learners at Home
2. Funschooling
3. Books, Links, and More
4. Miss Julie's Place: Art Lessons for Kids
5. Of Great Mind: A Journey in Home Education
6. Talking to Myself that just moved over from Homeschoolblogger, with more great hands-on stuff.
7. Totus Tuus Family & Catholic Homeschooling
8. Maureen Wittmann
9. Abiding Faith: Our Journey of Real Learning
10. Hilltop Homeschool

 I could list more, but several have already received the award from others.  Thank you again.

Beautiful Blogger Award

-:|:-In His Grip-:|:- Loni from Hearts-In-Training gave this wonderful award to me--thank you so much for the honor!

Here is what I do...

Thank & link to the person that gave you the award
Done, with great pleasure!

Pass this award onto 15 (or only 7) bloggers you think are fantastic. (I follow many more beautiful bloggers...)
Talking to Myself
Art Lessons for Kids
School for Us
Totus Tuus Family & Catholic Homeschool
Mountaineer Country
Of Great Mind
Learners At Home

Contact said Blogs & let them know they've won...will do now that this post is done.

State 7 things about yourself.

1. I just left my job of 16 years at the hospital to teach at a university.
2. I really need a haircut but can't seem to find the time to get one.
3. I rarely miss the daily Mass on EWTN.
4. A long time ago I lost a lot of money booking Celtic folk bands and selling tickets to the concerts...but it was loads of fun!
5. I came home to the Catholic Church 5 years ago because of the Eucharist.
6. I wear wool wristers and a thin wool shawl while working at the computer in winter.
7. I really would like a minivan.
8. I secretly hate science (just kidding, lol!!!)
   

One Lovely Blog Award

Thank you Sara in the Woods for this award posted on her blog The Forest Room. Just the graphic alone makes this a neat meme to pass along! I am a tea drinker; I have an entire cabinet filled with different varieties and accessories, with more loose teas in my ginger jars.

Here are the rules of this award:

Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.

Pass the award to up to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

1. This needs to go back to Sara and The Forest Room as her blog is a wonderful discovery!
2. Learners At Home are from my neck of the woods...
3. ...as is Every Day Best (and a long lost college friend!)
4. Live Life with Your Kids is another neat CMer blog.
   
5. Over the summer I found Catholic Cuisine and we are actually going to incorporate it into our TORCH classes this fall. They have the lovely tea set up in the corner, too.
   
6. Heart of a Mother is another lovely and inspiring blog new to me.

I could also give this to most of my long time favorites, too!

The Dart Award of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values

I am honored to have this award presented to me Miss Julie's Place - Art Lessons for Kids! If you have not seen this blog, and I hadn't until this award, it is worth checking out. I also received it from Funschooling.net, another outstanding blog.

“This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his/her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary and personal values every day.”

What is neat about this award is that it started out in Spanish blogs and jumped to English several months later. Another blogger traced it and posted the findings. The text was so small it was illegible, so I made it visible, putting words that reflect its origins. I love the graphic.

It has been passed on to anywhere from 5 to 15, so anyone who receives this can choose however many to whom they would like to pass it.

1. Talking to Myself
2. Totus Tuus Family & Catholic Homeschool
3. In the Sparrow's Nest
4. Rockhound Place
5. Four Little Monkeys

I would also have passed this on to Our Journey Westward and to School for Us except they already got it from Julie!

I'm looking forward to see to whom you all pass this on...

Butterfly Award

Rockhound Place awarded this to me--thank you so much!

Here are the rules for this pass-it-along award:

1. Link to the person who gave you the award.
2. Post the graphic.
3. Pass the award on up to ten other bloggers whose blogs you consider cool.

Here is my list of 8 cool blogs that (mostly) are "small" in that they don't have thousands of visitors each month and dozens of followers. May they all some day be so blessed!

1. Adventures on Beck's Bounty
2. Alasandra's Homeschool Blog
3. Tonya's ...Everything I've Got
4. Laura's Four Little Monkeys
5. Prince Andrew and the Queen Mum's Growing Fruit...part 2
6. Shez's Homeschooled Twins, the host of Cool Homeschoolers
7. Cheryl's Talking to Myself
8. Jessica's Trivium Academy