Catch-ups, Tags & Awards

Catch-ups, Tags & Awards

Life has been cah-raaazy - so much that I haven't had time to blog much this week. I've missed the daily HSMS prompts again. Just busy...busy...busy... SIL and MIL's bdays are coming up next week so I've preparing our gifts. Then, DS and DD1 have stuff going on in their schools too that are keeping me busy. There's Cubscouts camping this weekend so preparing stuff for that too. SIL is running her marathon/half marathon (depending on her health that day) so been making signs to carry to egg her on. Seriously, I feel like I'm paddling my feet hard just to keep my head above the water. Then add to that, DD3 has been soooo irritable and clingy. She *might* be teething but I'm feeling her gums and there aren't any signs yet. She used to sleep through the night. Lately though, she wakes up at about 2 am and wants to nurse. Then she's fully up by 5 am! Aargh!

Anyhoo, I'll try to catch up with my HSMS photos if I get the chance to take some pics.

I've been tagged by Angela and Bobs last week (I think)... so here goes...

Here are the rules which you must abide by if you are tagged.

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs

My 7 random facts:
1. I've rappelled freefall down a 100 ft bridge to a dry riverbed just for fun.
2. I've had 4 natural births, all without pain meds! Not something I planned, just happened that way. Read DD3's birth story here: Not for the faint of heart

3. I've never washed a car - always have someone else do it.
4. I used to do giant jigsaw puzzles with my bros.
5. I like the beach but I don't like swimming in the ocean.
6. I was part of the group that got to send off Pope John Paul II during the World Youth Day in Manila in '95. We were right in the tarmac!
7. I've only had 1 boyfriend - and I married him - and we're living happily ever after(most of the time!) LOL!

I don't have anyone to tag anymore - I think everyone I know has been tagged. If you're reading this and haven't done this yet, feel free to write random stuff about yourself and leave me a comment so I can go visit you.

Moving on...
I've received several blog awards...

First, MommyBa honored me with this First Class Friendship award. Thank you so much. I feel like we've really grown as friends the past couple of years because of our interaction online. I am so honored.
I don't have a lot of friendships online the way I have friendships IRL. My online activity tends to be fickle. I'm going to award this to the people who I think I will truly get along with if given the chance to meet up IRL.

Juz
Jacq
Aggie
Yen

Next, I got 2 awards from Aniqueanik. Thank you so much. It really is a joy to see that people enjoy reading my posts. It's feels nice to be appreciated and validated. And I think that is really the main purpose of all these awards - to spread some love around blog land, right? I had awarded the nice matters award a few weeks back on this post. I'd really love to pass on the BreakOut Blogger award to someone else but I haven't had time to bloghop much nowadays. If there is someone you want to nominate, point me to that direction and I'll happily pass on the award to that blogger. Thanks!

And after that epic of a novel, I think this is it. DD3 is waking up from her nap already and my ME time is up. Hope to be back more regularly once all the dust from all the activities this month settles.