Honest Scrap

I received my very first blog award this week, twice! Becky over at Farmgirl Paints and Queen Bee both kindly awarded me the Honest Scrap Award! Thanks so much girls, I truly enjoy and love both of your blogs :)

So here are the rules...

1. Say thanks and give a link to the presenter of the award.

2. Share "10 honest things" about myself.

3. Present this award to 7 other people whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me.

4. Tell those 7 people they've been awarded the HONEST SCRAP AWARD.

So as not to bore you too much with more of my random facts, I'm going to smatter some lovely pictures throughout my list...because I like you guys so much :)

1. I had rheumatic fever when I was 12 and spent half of my summer break stuck in bed. Part of my "regimen" to get better was taking 8 aspirins a day. I had a thing about swallowing pills back then, so my mom had to crush each and every aspirin on a spoon and feed it to me with an apple juice chaser. This went on for weeks! To this day, the taste of apple juice, even the smell, turns my stomach and I cannot drink it.

2. I enlisted in the Air Force after graduating from high school because I thought I was going to be the next Clarice Starling. Well, no, not really, but I did want to be in the OSI (Office of Special Investigations) which requires you to be in the Air Force. I thought I would attend college while in the Air Force. Then the Gulf War started and that threw off my plans. So I changed my mind and decided to go to college and get a Criminology degree instead. Fortunately, they let me out of my enlistment agreement. I did get that Criminology degree, but never did work in that field.

3. I adore my husband. Honestly and truly he is the love of my life.

4. I gained 50 lbs. exactly with each of my 3 pregnancies. My stomach was so large that people always asked me if I was having twins...after awhile I would tell people, "no triplets" just to have a little fun!

5. I've gone "green." I buy organic foods, practice organic gardening, and even make my own non-toxic cleaning supplies. Oh I could elaborate on this one, but we'll save that for another day!


6. I have OCD...obsessive compulsive decorating disorder. It's an inherited trait from my mother. I have a constant need to redo and redecorate things...rearranging furniture weekly, sometimes daily, is nothing out of the ordinary around this house!






7. I do at least 50 push ups on most nights before I go to bed.


8. Gardening has become a passion of mine, one I discovered after becoming a stay-at-home mom.





9. I did not go to my senior prom because no one asked me. Sad I know!


10. I don't like to play with my children. Too many years babysitting and being forced to play barbies for hours on end I guess. I love to be with my children and hug them and kiss them throughout the day, but I just don't really want to play Thomas the Tank engine or school, or grocery store, or....you get the idea (don't judge me, I'm just being honest).





Thanks for sticking with me girls (see the pictures helped, right?!). Now I present this award to the following blogs I'd love for you to get to know if you don't already...


Ashely at Emersyn Lane
Tara at Blondie n sc
Koralee at Bluebird Notes
June at Laughing with Angels
Paige at Simple Thoughts
Janet at It's an Evolution
Jackie at Wren's Nest


Please visit these amazing blogs, I promise you won't be disappointed!




{images 1,3,4: betterhomesandgardens.com, 5-7: countryliving.com}




Tracey