Meme Monday #3 and Sharing of Awards

Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody!!!

Thanks for visiting ;--)

Today's 'meme' comes from Give Me 5 Monday. The prompt last week was: "Give Me Five ways you like to de-stress, relax, wind down or kick back."


1. I love to play with Molly whose joy & energy know no bounds! She keeps me young & active ... healthy & whole ... generates laughter & merriment ... and makes new friends wherever we go. She's now 3 years old but believes she's a puppy and acts like one too.

2. I read ... (fiction and non-fiction ... poetry and prose) and I write ... mostly in my journal but sometimes creating word doodles. I quote myself from a previous post:

"My 1st "visual scribble" resulted in a veritable deluge of comments and led to others like it later on ... adding #2 here, #3 here, #4 here.

3. I get together with friends and catch-up with what's been happening in their lives while sharing what I've been up to as well.

4. I love to work in my garden and visit with neighbors ... sit on my patio and drink lemonade made with freshly squeezed lemons from my tree while enjoying the great outdoors.

5. Of course, I discovered the joys of blogging about 5 months ago and have taken to it in a big way ... as witnessed by what's here at Small Reflections and my other blog, Sacred Ruminations.

What do YOU do to 'de-stress, relax, wind down or kick back' ... please share. You know I don't like to 'tag' ... but I'd love everyone to play. If you decide to post answers on your blog like I did, please leave a link here so I can read them. If you want to share it comments, that's fine too ;--)

I want to thank Rhonda (aka Chuck) of Foster Me Up
for this 'Easter Egg Thank You" award.
She made it herself ;--)

I'd like to share it
with anyone who left a comment
on any of my 'weekend posts' here

Sunday's - It's been a while since I've done this ...
Saturday's - An emailed message worth sharing

and/or who decides to
comment on one or both of those posts today.

I'm honored
that
Melissa Markham
of Melissa's Idea Garden
awarded this Excellent Blog Award
to Small Reflections last week.

I received this award previously for
Sacred Ruminations and passed it on to
the following 11 bloggers there mid-February:

His Girl Friday at Wellied on Life
Karen at Journey to Authenticity
Ladybug at Living in the Light I Find
Lucy at Diamonds in the Skywith Lucy
Mama Zen at the Zen of Motherhood
Mother of Invention at Spilling Out!
MPJ at A Room of Mama's Own
Peajay at Mórán cainte ar bheagán cúise
Talking Bear at Sleepy Bear Hollow
Yertle at Smile, Play, Dream
Yolanda at Perfectly Imperfect

I'd like to pass it along today to
the following bloggers.

Betty at Betty's This and That
Chuck at Foster Me Up
Cricket of Cricket's Hearth
Eve at Adamswife's Weblog
Grandy at Functional Shmunctional
Greatfullivin at Gratitude Journal
Ivanhoe of Communique by Ivanhoe
Joy at The Joy of Six
Joyce at Mom's Musings
Mary at Mary's Writing Nook
Melanie at Livin' With Me
Melissa at Taking What is Left
Moana at Desperately Seeking Serenity
Nicole at the Happy Wonderer
PJ at Bits and Pieces
Pussreboots
Roger at the Daily Idaho Photo
Sandy at Momisodes
Sonya of Mo Mhíle Grá
Sue at Discombobula
the Dream at You May Say I'm a Dreamer
Tina at Tina's Odds and Ends
Zamejias at MakiMeji

The Rules: By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you agree to award it to 10 more people whose blogs you find Excellent Award worthy. You can give it to as many people as you want but please award at least 10. You deserve this! Feel free to award people who have already been awarded.

Of course,

I'd like to say a special
by passing along this cool t-shirt
from MPJ of A Room of Mama's Own
(who shared it with those who commented
on her blog during February)

to all my new
Meme Monday friends
Ultimate Blog Party participants
and all others who have visited this blog
during the past three weeks and left comments
with a link to your blog so I could find you.

Today counts too ;--)

so ... if you've not yet introduced yourself
do it today ... and accept my 'thanks'
with this graphic to snag & share
as you choose.

Thought for Today
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." Mary McLeod Bethune

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Meme Monday this week.