I was TOTALLY going to be cool about this, and pretend it wasn’t happening and all. But it turns out that my inner self is not going to allow that, by any means, so I’m going to do it, but just once. And then we shall never speak about it again.
Yep, I’m on about the Mum and Dad Blog Awards. When I started this shizzle nearly a year ago, I didn’t know there was such a thing as blogging awards. Shortly afterwards the nominations came out for the MADS, and I happened to mention them to the Husband, whereupon he rolled his eyes surreptitiously. But not surreptitiously enough.
‘What?’
‘Nothing!
‘WHAT??’
‘It’s just I can see where this is going. You’re going to get all competitive with this blogging thing of yours, aren’t you? It’ll be another one of your missions, like when you decided you were going to beat Paula Radcliffe at the marathon after 2 weeks at running club, or that you were going to grow a record breaking prize marrow on the basis that you once managed to keep a cactus alive for a couple of weeks.’
Obviously I flounced off muttering something about not being competitive at all and that I was blogging for ME and no-one else and no, I wasn’t interested in awards, thank you very much, and what did he mean anyway, and so on and so forth, while he just smirked in an annoying ‘you know I’m right’ fashion.
I bloody hate it when he’s right.
Obviously I’m not aiming for an actual award – that would be foolish. But I would dearly love to get a nomination – not least because I’d have an excuse to go to a swanky do in London where there will be no kids and lots of beer.
I also bloody hate asking for favours.
So I’m just going to say this quickly and slightly embarrassedly – please please please would you consider nominating me in the ‘Best New Blog’ section? It’d have to be that one because the other categories are all about proper things like craft, or photography, or being entertaining, or heaven forbid BABIES and I am unashamedly rubbish at all those. Which also technically means it’s my only chance, ever, to get nominated because next year I won’t be new any more and *sobs* I’ll STILL be rubbish at craft and photography and I sure as hell ain’t having another baby at my age…Tell you what. I’ll shut up now.
Oh…except to say this – whether you nominate me or not, a massive THANK YOU for reading LearnerMother over the last 12 months 🙂
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Dun dun dun…. DONE!! 🙂 Fingers crossed and best of luck! xxx
Thank you lovely lady! Hope your new job is going well? x
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I would nominate you any day for anything! x
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Kat, thank you! x x
LearnerMother recently posted…The Husband was right…
Hehe, I’m exactly the same. Would love to say that blogging is all about expressing myself but if I’m honest, being nominated would be such an honour.
By the way, are you going to be at the Family Games Day on Sunday?
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Hello, well I shall cross my fingers for you! Yes I will be there for at least some of it, so will get to meet you properly! x
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Ha ha, love this! Good luck with the award! It’s hard not to covet, I feel the same – and I started just “blogging for meee”.
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Thank you!
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I think we’re all a little bit competitive really! Thanks for writing about the awards. Good luck!
MADs Editor
I would love to be nominated but there are so many great new blogs! I hope you get the nominations 🙂 #blogclub
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Oh hon, I already voted for my mummy blogger friends, wish I had read this before I did! Good luck! #BlogClub
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Good luck with the awards! I was a finalist back in 2012 and it is really good fun x
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I hope you get to go to the awards #blogclub
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Good luck! I hope you get to go to the awards xx
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Your post made me grin as it rather resonated:) good luck:) #blogclub
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Good luck!!! You’re right, it’s difficult to ask for nominations. It’s the ‘real-life’ friends who I have the most difficulty with in begging for a vote. At least we bloggers all know the score….
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