Awards, Giveaway, Chocolates and Launcing of ARK

Today is a great day to make someone's day, because for most of us Mondays become the day we dread the most. It becomes the beginning of a long work week for some, projects and deadlines come calling, school begins again for kids for another week, and so Monday because the scapegoat for all things we don't like. We can blame it on a Monday. However, I want change that and make Monday's special.

To start it off, I wanted to pass along an award, I received from Hearts Make Families, a wonderful new blog I discovered last week. I love her blog, so much love and warmth can be found in each and every post she has written. It's no wonder she received this award.

To pass along this award, you need to locate 15 blogs that you feel fall into a category of being inspiring, motivated and leave you with a good feeling whenever you stop by or when they leave you the most wonderful comments. I have included a short caption as to why I felt their blog deserved this award as well, and here are my winners for today:

1. Loren at The Magoo's News. ~ Always positive no matter what is going on in her life.

2. Greg at Greg's General Store ~ Has the best attitude despite life's circumstances.

3. Steve at Gotta Have Faith. ~ created an award to honor moms!

4. Billy Coffey at What I Learned Today. ~ The best stories you will ever read from a dad.

5. Five Moms and A Blog ~ Inspiration to Moms everywhere.

6. Amy at Filled with Praise ~ Trying to raise funds to adopt a child to her family.

7. Michelle at Psalm 104:24 ~ I am always a changed person each time I visit her blog.

8. Kim at Homesteaders Heart ~ for her love of friends and chocolate.

9. Dandy at Spontaneous Clapping ~ For her variety of things she posts about.

10. Wendy at Weight What? ~ For always making me laugh!

11. Kat at Art's Chili ~ for the most creative family I know.

12. LV at Thoughts from Meme's Corner ~ No matter your age, this beautiful lady is always finds the bright side of life.

13. Mari at My Little Corner of the World ~ For taking us on virtual vacations with incredible pictures.

14. Beth at An Instrument for His Glory ~ For all our prayer requests

15. Kurt at Some Things I Have Learned ~ For always keeping us challenged.


In addition to this wonderful day, I was selected by chocolate.com to receive some chocolate samples from their wonderful company and blog about the results.I had heard about this from Kim at Homesteader's Heart and since I too can't resist having chocolate at least once a day knew this was something I had to try.

I received a box on Wednesday with a Milk Chocolate Bar, a Dark Chocolate with Coffee pieces in it, chocolate covered coffee beans and two selections of dark chocolates. One was with honey, dark rum and orange, and the second was black currant. We had a blast sampling all the different flavors.

My oldest daughter loved anything that combined coffee and chocolate together. My youngest loved the milk chocolate the best. Hubby preferred the black currant and dark chocolates and I, well loved the Orange, Honey and Dark Rum dark chocolates. Its a great company with so many different chocolates to chose from. Please visit their site today if you haven't yet. Who knows perhaps you may be selected to be the next chocolate blogger.


Next my winner of Seaside Letters book giveaway was Kelly from Kelly's Ideas. It was her first giveaway win so it was super special to be her first. Please stop on over to congratulate her.

By the way if you haven't noticed by new header, I have to thank Steve at Gotta Have Faith for custom designing a header for me that invites you to come in and have a seat next to the fire and let's have a heart to heart with coffee! He is amazing at his talents!


Lastly, if you haven't had the opportunity to check out my latest venture in the blogging world, please sign up at A.R.K. for God. It's a blog that I want all of us to share our experiences in doing Acts of Random Kindness for people. If you want to submit something to post, I would be more than happy and honored to have anyone do a guest blog post! The idea is to make a difference in the world through one act of random kindness. Hopefully it will generate a response that causes a chain reaction among people to pass it on. Please join us in making a difference and changing our world one act of random kindness at a time for God. By the way, if you like the ARK's header, it was designed by Caitlyn at Teenlife.

Have a wonderful Monday and pass along the goodness today! Don't let the enemy steal your joy!