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Excitement plus.

I clicked over to the bloggies and nearly fell off my chair when I saw ‘Frog Ponds Rock’ listed as a finalist for best Australian or New Zealand weblog. My teenage son David was looking at me strangely as I was squealing like a girl and pointing at the computer screen.

The news hadn’t even started to sink in when the phone rang, it was my daughter Veronica, she of the sleepless nights and the words so beautiful that they take your breath away.

Together we voiced our excitement and checked out the other finalists in all the categories.Congratulations to you all.

After Veronica had hung up I was sitting here quietly just saying, “Wow!” to myself over and over and I started to cry. My mother would have been so excited and the pain of missing mum came back doubly sharp on top of the excited butterflies.

It was a bittersweet joy yesterday made all the more precious because it is tinged with my loss and I know that all good things can be fleeting.

So hello to you all, you zillions of visitors from the bloggies. I am very pleased that you are here. This morning I am smiling away happily as I look at my stats and see visitors here from all over the world. Welcome.

I had a visitor of another sort in my front yard yesterday and watching her snuffling around busily eating ants, made me happy as well.

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  • Veronica January 23, 2010, 8:04 am

    I am OVER the moon for you. I was absolutely thrilled to bits to see you as a finalist. Me last year, you this year, we’re doing well!

    She’s a pretty girl. We’ve still got our two hanging around as well.

  • Martin January 23, 2010, 8:05 am

    Frog Ponds DO Rock!

  • Trish January 23, 2010, 10:00 am

    congratualtions Kim

  • Karen (miscmum) January 23, 2010, 10:38 am

    Congratulations to you, well done.

  • Kristin January 23, 2010, 11:08 am

    Kim, you already know how excited I am. I was dancing around my living room when I saw that! Yes, bittersweet. And I’m already envying your flags. Hugs and smooches. xoxo

  • Pixie January 23, 2010, 11:10 am

    how wonderful!!

    congrats!!!

  • river January 23, 2010, 12:52 pm

    Lovely little echidna ther. They are little aren’t they? Congratulations on the bloggies.

  • Sharon January 23, 2010, 1:00 pm

    Yay Kim!!! I was over on the bloggies voting when I saw you there. Needless to say you got my vote and I’m keeping my fingers tightly crossed for you too. Way to go girl!

  • Brenda January 23, 2010, 3:44 pm

    Well deserved Kim. Well deserved! End of comment.

  • Kerri Sackville January 23, 2010, 3:58 pm

    Well hellooooo! I had a similiar reaction to you when I found out I was a finalist, except that I was in the supermarket carrying my 2 year old, and my friend called to tell me the news, and it took me about ten minutes to actually absorb what she was telling me (and not only because the toddler was inserting bits of wafer into my ear).
    Congratulations!!!
    Kerri (Life And Other Crises) xxxxx

  • Ally January 23, 2010, 5:39 pm

    Congrats! I like to think they picked a good 5.
    ps – I’ve never seen an echnida, let alone blogged one.

    – Ally @ today is my birthday!

  • Jientje January 23, 2010, 7:50 pm

    Congratulations, I am so excited for you, you really really deserve to win this!!
    What a cute little critter you’ve got there!

  • Avril January 23, 2010, 10:06 pm

    Many congrats – very well deserved !!!

    I know how you feel about sharing the news with your Mum … I was browsing through my photos of Kew Gardens (London) and would love to have told my mom that ‘I’ had finally been there!! Maybe I will when next I see her, but it won’t make her eyes sparkle with excitement as it would have done in the past.

  • Nadezhda January 23, 2010, 11:07 pm

    Hello! Came here through the link of Wanderlust (http://kbxmas.blogspot.com/). Congratulation! I voted for you 🙂 And I loved your blog so I added your feed to my “collection”.
    Have a nice day!

  • Mrs. Oh January 23, 2010, 11:27 pm

    PFt Kim – we already knew that, it is why we come here 😉 Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!

  • kathy cakebread January 24, 2010, 3:36 am

    hello,

    congrats on getting nominated, that’s quite a achievement in the blogging world! nice site!

    Kathy

  • The NDM (Not Drowning, Mothering) January 24, 2010, 8:20 am

    Many congratulations to you!

    I am proud to be one of the zillion Bloggies Tourist stopping by your little corner of the internet.

  • Hyphen Mama January 24, 2010, 10:31 am

    Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for you Kim! Am now headed over to see.

  • Posie Patchwork January 24, 2010, 3:18 pm

    That’s how i found you, from the Bloggies, congratulations!! Love Posie

  • Barbara January 24, 2010, 6:59 pm

    Well done you, very much deserved!

    Please can you send me an echidna in the post? I think they’re lovely.

  • tiff January 25, 2010, 12:43 pm

    Yay Kim!

    So deserved.

  • Ali January 26, 2010, 12:12 am

    I have been meaning to pop over and say congratulations. So thrilled for you.

  • Tanya January 26, 2010, 8:46 am

    congrats!

  • Glen January 27, 2010, 1:35 am

    Hello – that is some lovely place you are living at. Your imagery is superb, I feel like I’m there; brightened up an otherwise dull English day.

    Well done & good luck.

  • Mistress B January 27, 2010, 9:23 am

    Congrats Kim!! And your visitor looks lovely 🙂

  • Fe January 29, 2010, 3:11 pm

    Weeee!!! I’m feeling all proprietorial!! Needless to say I’ve voted for you 😉

    GOOD LUCK!!

    xoxox

  • Meegan January 29, 2010, 9:32 pm

    Well done Kimmy! Love your blog….clever little cookie you are 🙂