VEry Inspiring Blogger Award

Something to aleviate my tension! Very Inspiring Blogger Award!

02 May 2015 21 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Award, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, VEry Inspiring Blogger Award

Awarded 1/5/15

Yesterday am email popped up and in it was a lovely surprise from the gorgeous Erica Kind… A nomination for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award!

I have been following Erica for a few weeks, and she, me, and we seem to have clicked in a great way, and I was so honoured to have received this from her, thank you so much Erica! ❤ ❤

The Rules

Thank the person who nominated you and add their link to
List the award rules so your nominees will know what to do.
Tell 7 hidden facts about yourself.
Nominate 10-15 other bloggers. (Nominate however many you wish to, I do!)
Contact your nominees and provide a link to your post.
Display the award logo (button) on your blog, whether on your sidebar or about page, or special award page.

7 facts about me…

I’m in a bit of tension right now, but thinking about new facts to reveal about myself is fading that tension, and giving me a new one!
I learned how to play the Guitar, the Recorder, and the Piano as a child, but can I still play any of them???? Nope! But I can sing!
I have family in the UK, Finland, India, Kenya, Uganda, USA, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Norway, and I’m sure I have forgotten a few there!
My biggest hope, to make a positive difference to the lives of the children I work with.
Its been nearly 2 months, and I am STILL hula hooping!!!!!! 10 minutes a day! Really! I am actually sticking to something exercise related! That is a miracle!!
I like chocolate, no I LOVE chocolate, but it makes me itch! I eat a bar, it feels so good, then I scratch myself to bits, but oh… it’s worth it!
I went to Russia at 16, and saw the first ever MacDonald’s opened there, the queue for a burger was a mile long, I kid you not! needless to say, we did not wait in that queue, we didn’t fly all the way to the Soviet Union to queue for burgers…!

My Nominees

A Little Daydreamer
Blog Of A Mad Black Woman
The Ninth Life
Waffle Me This
Stereotypically Able
Random Writings on the Bathroom Wall
Sheldon Kleeman

Again, thank you so much to my nominator, Erica! And to my nominees, please don’t feel obliged to take part, but if you do, let me know, I love reading the new facts you reveal about yourselves!

11 Apr 2015 13 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Awards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Humbled, Thankful, VEry Inspiring Blogger Award

Its always a surprise and pleasure to accept awards and this time I was blessed by the gorgeous Trish.
Thank you so much hun, it’s much appreciated!

The Rules

Thank the one who nominated you by linking their blog and display the award emblem.

Nominate some other blogs and link them.

Mention three things that inspired you the most in the last week or so…

So the first one is done, and thanks again Trish!!! 😘

I’ll go to my three points of inspiration thus week

My children, they are always a wealth of inspiration, from the things they say, to the things they do!
My Parents, especially this week, as I was home with them.
Food!!! Because I have too much of a close relationship with food!!!

And my nominees…

Nutsrok an amazing blog, I read every day!

Edwina’s Episodes I know you don’t do awards, but still, you inspire me! 😊

A Little Daydreamer for creating such a great challenge event, while being a relatively young, new blogger! I’ve loved it!

The Very Inspiring Blogger Award

14 Feb 2015 16 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Award, Blog, Blog Post, Blogging, grateful, Thankful, VEry Inspiring Blogger Award

14-2-15

Firstly a massive thank you to K Bailey at After Midnight:A Christian Bipolar for the nomination of this award.

Display the award on your blog.
Link back to the person who nominated you.
State 7 things about yourself.
Nominate 15 bloggers, link to them, and notify them about their nominations.

So, I’ve done 1 and 2… and I must say a huge thank you to my nominator, as it is a privilege and honour to be thought of as inspiring, jut by even one person! so Thank you again! (That’s 3 times I’ve said it now lol!)

7 things about me.. this gets harder every time I get awards… what to find to tell you all that I might not have mentioned before..?

1) Being from a Sikh family that lived in Kenya, I was unaware that half of the Punjabi I spoke was actually a mishmash of Punjabi and Swahili! I found out at university when my fellow Punjabi speaking students looked at me like I was mad when I said certain things. Upon clarification from my dear mum, I realised I had in fact been speaking gobble di gook to them!

2) My Hubby Dearest is my toy boy! Well, you’re only as young as the man you feel, isn’t that what they say! 😉

3) I swam with dolphins in Jamaica, what an amazing experience!

4) My mum went to university with Mary Berry! (but a couple of years below her!)

5) At university, I was a finalist in the Miss Moonlighting Beauty contest! could have won a trip to a Caribbean Island as the prize, but I was too scared to go to the final! (We were at the venue where the contest was held by chance and I got picked!)

6) I caught chicken Pox on my 3rd birthday. What a great present!

7) I suffer from PCOS and my children are my two miracles. ❤

And now to the nominations… this is always hard, so I will attempt to find inspirational blogs for you!

(Looked for ages, and these 11 I am highlighting, are blogs I find inspirational to read)

Kunal Rane
Rachel Being Chatty
Confessions of an Addict
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Window With a View
10 Years a Single Mom
A Momma’s View
Mumz The Word
Blackbird’s Nest
Shaun L. Bird
Innerdragon