Saturday Surprises

I do realize that Valentine's Day has come & gone so I'm late with these, but it seems "the hurrieder I go the behinder I get" no matter what. Today I'm choosing to subscribe to the "better late than never" theory, so please bear with me.

Mary passed along these Valentine Awards (created & bestowed upon her by Hootin' Anni) along at her Writing Nook to her friends and, I'd like to share them with mine. It's still February ... so I plan to add them to my sidebar and enjoy them throughout the remainder of the month before moving them to an awards page I've been meaning to create. I hope you enjoy them too, albeit belatedly.



At the same time, Mary initiated the following award to share with "a few people who have touched her heart in a special way."
I'm honored to be included among the recipients of this lovely treasure and I'd like to share it with the following friends here in the virtual world (listed alphabetically). I've got my fingers crossed than I didn't leave anyone out. I appreciate your visits to my blogs and enjoy my visits to yours. In just a few months you've each become a special part of my "virtual" life online, and I wish each of you lived close enough to get together for real.

Eve at Adamswife's Weblog
His Girl Friday at Wellied on Life
Joy at The Joy of Six
Lucy at Diamonds in the Sky and Lucy Creates
Kara at Spiritdoll
(even though you're not blogging currently)
Karen at Journey to Authenticity
Mother of Invention at Spilling Out!
MPJ at A Room of Mama's Own
Peajay at Mórán cainte ar bheagán cúise
Sandy of Momisodes

the Dream at You May Say I'm a Dreamer

Yertle at Smile, Play, Dream
Yolanda at Perfectly Imperfect

The following two awards also came from Mary who is one of the most caring and generous women I've encountered online. Just as she offered this "Toadally Awesome" award to everyone on HER blogroll, I'd like to share it with everyone on mine. In addition, I'd like to use this as an opportunity to bring my Blogroll up to date, so if you're a regular reader and I haven't added you ... please send me email or leave a comment so I can remedy that situation.

Because I use Google Reader, I don't rely on my own Blogroll to find you, but I'd like my readers to be able to find one another. I need your help to make that happen because "I'm not perfect & I know I never will be." Just this past week I posted on Wednesday using "Tuesday" in the title. Sigh! What's more ... no one mentioned it (bless your hearts for being kind, but I do "get by with a bit of help from my friends" as in the Beatles song) so it took me a couple of days to discover and fix the error.

Just because you're passing through today (and have managed to read through all this to reach this final "Cool Cat" award ... this one is for EVERYONE whether or not you've visited before.

I appreciate all who visit here and/or at Sacred Ruminations where I've left another award bestowed upon that blog by Lucy.

So it is that I've saved this final very special award for Mary.
It was given to me recently by Joy, and I kept it for myself initially ... intending to pass it along at the right moment. Methinks this is that moment. In addition to her usual blogging activities, Mary has been sharing bits of information about Canadian Black History during February in honor of Black History Month and advocating acts of Everyday Kindness ... encouraging her readers to do likewise.

For all you do for everyone,
thank you Mary ...
You're truly one in a million!

Thought for today
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." Henry Drummond