I was nominated!

 

Clarissa at Counting Our blessings nominated me for the Liebster Award!

 

 

Here is my Liebster Award!!! Thank you Clarissa!

Want to know more about Liebster??

The Liebster Blog Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have not yet hit the 200 follower mark. The award is presented by a fellow blogger as a sort of pat on the back "you've got a great thing started" type of award. "liebster" is German for "favorite"

The rules-

1. List 11 facts about yourself.

2. Answer the 11 questions given to you.

3. Create 11 new questions for the bloggers you nominate for the award.

4. Choose 11 bloggers with 200 or less followers to nominate.

5. Go to each bloggers page and let them know about the award.

6. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog.

 

 

Eleven facts about me:

 

1. I'm a sinner saved by the grace of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2. I was married at 15 1/2 years old.

3. I was raised on a raspberry farm.

4. My oldest son has Diabetes Insipidus ("water diabetes")

5. I will always miss my mom who passed away 5 1/2 years ago from breast cancer.

6. I tend to like blues and greens.

7. Two of my children were home births.

8. I have homeschooled every year since my oldest was 6 except one.(though 3 of my children did attend a Christian school for a couple years, I was still homeschooling during that time except that one year.)

9. I've had 4 miscarriages and 7 children.

10. I like to spend time enjoying God's creation

11. God is my hope, my joy, my lover, my one and only rock.

 

I would love to nominate 11 bloggers, but alas! I have realized I don't know 11 bloggers who don't already have more than 200 followers or that Clarissa hasn't already nominated!

 

 

Clarissa's 11 questions & my answers:

1. What is your favorite thing to do as a family? Read a good book aloud before bedtime.

2. What is one prayer that God answered in your life and how? He took my mom peacefully without too much suffering (though I sometimes wondered at the time)

3. What one goal (hope, dream, prayer) do you have for 2013? I pray God would keep me & my family in faith no matter what comes.

4. What one thing do you hope to instill in your children? Love, faith and graditude for thier Heavenly Father.

5. What do you do to relax or de-stress? That's a good question...go for a walk, sing, pray, read to my kids.

6. In what area/subject are you most creative with your homeschooling?

 Not sure...maybe Science.

7. What is one thing you learned from homeschooling your children? Patience is not given without enduring something that needs patience.

8. If you could live anywhere, where would it be? If it must be in this world, than I don't know. Somewhere that people have old-fashioned values and the church isn't so judgmental and self-righteous.

9. What is your favorite homeschool curriculum? I guess I have a few...Easy Grammar, Math-U-See, Apolgia Science, and some Abeka.

10. Do you speak or teach a foreign language? No, but my kids have asked about learning Latin. Maybe we will yet!

11. Where is your favorite place to vacation as a family? My Dad's ranch or

the beach.

So... that being said, I don't suppose it does me any good to ask 11 new questions without someone to answer them...BUT how about ONE new question that anyone who comes to my blog can answer? So my question is:

 

What one thing has changed your life the most?(Besides getting married or having children.)

 

My answer: hmmm...*smile* maybe it's hard to pin point one thing...homeschooling my kids, my mom dying from cancer, our church "ex-communicating" my dad, or my dad remarrying are all possible answers. I really don't know if I can choose one.

 

This was fun to do, Clarissa. Thanks!