Wednesday, February 17, 2010
A New Award!
Thank you so much, Kimberly Franklin, for this beautiful award! If you aren't following Kim yet, hop over to her place today. She's got a talented, cheerful voice and her new blog layout is fab!
This award asks me to tell seven things about myself. Here it goes:
1. I'm the oldest of five siblings...all female. As if that weren't complicating enough, our parents gave us all first names that start with the letter "N." By the time I was five, I thought my name was "Na--ni--no--nay...YOU!"
2. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.
3. In college, I joined a local sorority because the national Greek organizations had to follow too many rules.
4. I started watching Guiding Light with my cousin and her mother when I was ten years old. I knew those characters (...and their children, and their children after them...) as well as I knew my own family. After thirty-three years of being a faithful viewer, I bawled like a baby when its final episode aired last September. With its record-holding 72 years of broadcasts, it is the longest running television series in history, debuting on radio in 1937 before moving to television until 2009.
5. Both my children were born in France and have dual nationality. According to French OBGYNs, "normal weight gain" for a pregnant woman is between 12 and 24 pounds. A woman with a normal delivery is welcome to stay five days in the maternity ward, in a private room with her newborn, to recover from delivery and rest up before bringing baby home. Women who experienced complications can stay longer. I neither received a bill from the hospital, nor paid any money. We were only required to file a couple social security papers before leaving the hospital.
6. And, on the subject of childbirth, I assisted in over thirty live births when I organized, and participated in, a midwifery training program in Central Africa. What an experience that was!
7. I found out yesterday that out of 104 entries, mine won first place in Writing.com's official contest for January 2010. The prompt was: Write a motivational letter to yourself outlining your writing goals for the year. The prize was $100 worth of Gift Points (that's a cool million in cyber bucks) and bragging rights, of course (LOL). You can read my letter HERE.
I'd like to pass this award on to five of my new blogging buddies, and one dear friend who I know inside and outside the blogosphere:
SarahJayne at Writing in the Wilderness
Abby Annis
Anthony Duce
Megan Rebekah
Noelle Nolan
And to my dear friend and nextdoor neighbor, Tonya at Tonya Talk
I also want to thank Laurel at Laurel's Leaves for giving the Happy Award to me! I look forward to passing that along at a later time. In the meantime, pop over and visit Laurel's blog! She's always got something creative and fun to say :))
I have good friends coming from France this week. They'll be here Thursday through Sunday, so I won't be able to write or read blogs much during that time. (*breaks out in cold sweat at the thought*) If I don't get another chance, let me wish you all a wonderful weekend!
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25 comments:
Congratulations on your award and winning first place. Great Accomplishment. Love the list and assisting childbirth, wowwee, that's unbelievable! Have fun with your friends. We'll miss you.
Congrats on your Award! Great list, can't believe France's welcome of new mothers and their babies ... Wow! What a wonderful experience that must've been.
And raising my coffee cup in a toast to your placing in the writing contest, congrats again!
Yay for winning first place!
Yay to you, for both the award and winning first place in the contest. Bragging rights you deserve!!
Enjoy the time with your friends.
Congratulations! First place out of 104 entries! That's fabulous, and definitely brag-worthy! ;)
Congrats on 1st place! You deserve bragging rights :)
Piedmont~ Thanks!! Working in a Third World hospital was crazy. When women arrived at night, in labor, we had to light kerosene lanterns because there was only electricity between 6 p.m. and 10p.m.
Joanne~ Yes, socialized medicine works beautifully in France. Health care coverage concerns were one of the items on the "con" side of our list when we were deciding whether to move our family to the States.
Lisa Marie~ Thank you! And thanks for signing on as a follower! :))
DL~ Thank you so much!
Shelley~ Thanks a bunch!!!
Tara~ Thank you so much! :))
Congrats on winning first place! What an honor!
(and thanks for the award, I love it!!)
Wow... congrats on winning for the Writers.com. That's awesome!
I enjoyed learning more about you! : )
Happy Wedenesday!
Congratulations on placing first. You deserve it based on what I've read of your work.
Congrats on your win and wow! Those are some awesome things to know about you. I'm pretty uninteresting in comparison, but thank you for the award. :)
Wow - being a midwife must have been an amazing experience!
Congrats on the awards :)
Congrats on another award and THANKS SO MUCH for passing it on to me! Unfortunately it has been a very busy day and I've just checked blogger. I won't get it done tonight but will for sure get it on my blog tomorrow! Plus, it gives me a little time to think of seven things about myself...that my readers don't already know...that's gonna be hard! Love you friend!
Tonya
Congrats on the award AND on winning first place in the contest. Hilarious that you were a Guiding Light fan. I watched that show religiously when I was in college. The Reva clone years with Brittany Snow playing the young Reva. Awesome.
Wow! Super congrats!! Yay for the first place. Yay for the awards!! Very, very cool! ;)
Seems I'm a little behind on Congratulating you!! Time seems to have slipped past me! Congratulations none the less!!! Love awards... and yay for first place!!
Congrats on your award and first place, Nicole! That's awesome :) I have another award for you at my blog!
I hope I haven't duplicated the award you just received, but I posted one for you this morning as well. Congratulations on you greatness!
Enjoy your time with your friends. :)
Congratulations! I enjoyed learning more about you. Glad you had such a wonderful time with your friends!
There are five girls in my mom's family and they all start with the letter "D." One of my aunts and my mom continued the tradition with my sister and I beginning with "J" and my two cousins are "P."
Congratulations on the contest!!! Enjoy your points!
:)
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