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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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.
Frog Ponds DO Rock!
congratualtions Kim
Congratulations to you, well done.
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
how wonderful!!
congrats!!!
Lovely little echidna ther. They are little aren’t they? Congratulations on the bloggies.
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!
Well deserved Kim. Well deserved! End of comment.
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
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!
Congratulations, I am so excited for you, you really really deserve to win this!!
What a cute little critter you’ve got there!
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.
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!
PFt Kim – we already knew that, it is why we come here 😉 Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!
hello,
congrats on getting nominated, that’s quite a achievement in the blogging world! nice site!
Kathy
Many congratulations to you!
I am proud to be one of the zillion Bloggies Tourist stopping by your little corner of the internet.
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for you Kim! Am now headed over to see.
That’s how i found you, from the Bloggies, congratulations!! Love Posie
Well done you, very much deserved!
Please can you send me an echidna in the post? I think they’re lovely.
Yay Kim!
So deserved.
I have been meaning to pop over and say congratulations. So thrilled for you.
congrats!
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.
Congrats Kim!! And your visitor looks lovely 🙂
Weeee!!! I’m feeling all proprietorial!! Needless to say I’ve voted for you 😉
GOOD LUCK!!
xoxox
Well done Kimmy! Love your blog….clever little cookie you are 🙂