Oooh. Oooh. I have won my first ever blogging “award” from my friend Caitlin over at Hello Hines Family! As Caitlin explains on her blogs, these “awards” are not real, but just one way for one blogger to acknowledge and compliment another blogger. Whatevs. I’ll take it. Thanks Caitlin! Caitlin is actually one of my real life friends who got me interested in studying mom blogs as I have watched her blog evolve so much over the past year as she prepared for and brought her adorable son, Denver, into this world!
Okay, so here is my award…
It seems somewhat silly, but I think my digital literacies classmates are going to LOVE this blogging achievement. In addition to my “award,” I have also started getting some feedback from bloggers I don’t actually know in real life. That’s huge! While I appreciate all my friends and family who read my blog, I am excited to make blog-only friends!
And here are the rules of the receiving the title of “Stylish Blogger.” I feel like it’s a mommy blog chain letter…
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| Yes, my sister and I sure did dress like twins and wear fake glasses for teacher pictures… we are professionals. |
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| The red-headed broski and me last summer… I am thinking highlights closer to his shade… |
I was homeschooled for one year of my life. My mother decided she didn’t like the public school systerm, so she forced me to be homeschooled in 8th grade. I always have and always will love all things school… homework, papers, competing for grades, hanging out with friends, learning from teachers, listening to lectures, taking notes, school sports. So, basically, I hated being homeschooled. I resented my mom and I didn’t do any school work all year, except read my history book, because I thought it was interesting. Basically, I skipped 8th grade. But then my mom let me go back to school in 9th grade and our relationship was repaired 🙂 And in retrospect, I went to an awful middle school and not being there when I was 14 years old might have actually been a good thing for me. Ahhh, retrospect.
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| Hands down my favorite kitchen appliance! |
Micah and I don’t have a TV. I have lived in many houses in the past without cable (in fact, I haven’t had cable in my home since 2005), but we don’t even have a television on which to watch movies. I do have a DVD player, but it just sits in our guest closet. If we are really desperate to watch a sports game, we go across the street to this little sports bar called The Max (we like to think it’s the setting of Saved By The Bell – The Adult Years). Sometimes we will watch movies on my really crappy Dell laptop from 2005 (sorry little guy… I feel like I have to apologize to him or he might crash on me as I type this). And sometimes we will invite ourselves over to other people’s houses to watch sports games or movies. Someday we will actually buy a TV and invite all those people over who have let us borrown their TVs over the past six months. Until then… thank you friends!!!
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| My dear friend, Kristin, and I borrowing my cousin’s TV to watch a Horned Frog Rose Bowl victory. One of the best days of my life! |
I think one of the best dinners in the world, especially when you don’t feel good or are too tired or busy to cook, is Kraft macaroni and cheese with sliced hot dogs in it. In the Russum household, this is our comfort food. Just like my babysitter used to make it for me when I was five years old.
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| Sweet Anne debuting her new Hell’s Angels jacket at our Missional Community’s White Elephant gift exchange…. |
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| Alla and her new hookah pipe… I think it made her a little nervous. |
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| Adam and Shalyn model their White Elephant makeover… |
