I started the week on Sunday with my lovely daughter who took me to a birthday brunch then to a movie. She is the sweetest girl on the planet!

Monday brought me a milestone birthday (not tellin’ which one) and lunch with my baby sister. She gave me the coolest gift! Then, it was a quick trip to the Apple store where I gave myself an iPad, followed by a wonderful evening making art with my sister.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday — back to work for this old girl.

Then, Friday comes around and the lovely jensinewall and the effervescent as long as I’m singing each sent me a One Lovely Blog Award.

Gotta’ tell you folks, life just doesn’t get much better. All I need now is about a pound of chocolate and a really good foot massage and I’m all set.

Okay, enough about me, on to the award rules!

This award(s) requires sharing 7 facts about yourself and nominating 15 co-bloggers you love and want to make happy with a well deserved token of gratitude. Here goes …

The facts …

• I see a turkey neck in my future and I don’t like it!
• I’ve never been to Spain but I think I’d like it there if, of course, it rains mainly on the plain.
• I like squash, just about any way you want to cook it.
• Lightning bugs make me smile.
• I think that, for many of us, family is a love hate relationship.
• I’m pretty sure that all the world’s problems could be solved if thinking about them involved a rocking chair or a porch swing.
• I’m tickled pink that Dallas is back on TV and I already miss Mad Men.

The blogs I nominate for the One Lovely Blog Award …

• Snotting Black
• Gwirrel’s Garden
• Sweet Mother
• Peg-o-Leg’s Ramblings
• Path Writer
• Katie is a Teacher
• You Monsters are People
• Readncook
• Air Cooled Underwear
• Lipstick Rhetoric
• Running Naked with Scissors
• The Studio – Painting Your Way
• John & Anne Wiley
• The Underestimated Mom
• Belle of the Carnival’s Blog

Whew!

All of the above are lovely blogs and I hope you’ll visit each and every one of them and will enjoy them as much as I do.