Honest Scrap and Best Blog Award in one

Rebecca @ In The Garden  has given me two awards and I am really honored. but very very very happy to accept.

My first award is the honest scrap

The rules are:

A. Brag about the award.
The person who receives it ,feels really really awesome ha ha
and is inspired to keep on blogging and gets to ackowledge fellow bloggers who inspire you , so that others can also be inspired by them.

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B. Link back to the person who gave it to you.
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C. Share 10 honest things about yourself.
1. I am a christian , my whole life revolves arround Christ and becoming the person He made me to be.
2. I am usually quiet a happy person , which means I annoy the rest of the unhappy people
3. I love my husband and kids , I have been very blessed with a great family
4. My in-laws live with me. I didn't like it at first , but now I really appreciate them in my life and don't know how others survive without parents in the home.
5. My dad died just after Nicole was born and never got to see his first grandson Daniel and that makes me sad , especially when the yellow arums bloom.
6. I am a computer programmer and love it, it's the opposite side of my life inside and surrounded by technology versus outside and surrounded with nature.
7. I really don't like speaking in front , my heart beats terribly and my hands shake and I stutter. Terrible for me and the people who have to hear me .. *grin
8. I don't like to cook , but I like to eat
9. I don't like house work , but I like things to be neat and tidy
10. hmm I know my husband from 1993 , so that makes it 16 years

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D. Give the award to 7 more bloggers who inspire you.
1. Fairegarden , Frances inspired me to start my own blog. I loved her pictures and sence of humour and she is not afraid to try anything.
2. Clay and Limestone Gail is as sweet as Frances and has grown so many beautiful plants
3. The Galloping Gardner what an amazing woman , she travels to all the gardens open to the public and is also helping build a hospital in India. very inspired
4. Gardening Tips and Ideas Scott has created http://www.blotanical.com/ go there and you will be inspired by his blog and  by all the other gardening blogs there , it would take a lifetime to see everything there.
5. http://sequoiagardens.wordpress.com/ Jack is a fellow South African , so many of this things on his site will work in my garden
6.   Go Away - I'm Gardening! Amy has a lovely blog , she is really enjoying it and she is funny
7. Janie is very very clever , she has lots of knowledge about different things in your garden , her site is sure to inspire you to buy lots of plants :)

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I have more .. but then I may never finish this blog.

The next award is the best blog award

Here are the rules :

Post the award on your blog along with the name of the person who passed it on to you and link to their blog. Choose blogs which you have recently discovered and you think are great and pass it on to them. Don't forget to leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Thank you so much Rebecca ,

Here is my list

dalia

awake with charm

Sequoia Gardens

my secret garden

The Garden Of Eaden

Japanese Garden

Crafty Gardener

Evolution Of A Gardener

Garden Chronicles

Liza And Johns Garden

Liz and the Proffessor

yellow flower

There are a lot more .. but you will find them all as you follow the trail back.

To all I have awarded it to. I hope you accept it. It was very nice showing off the blogs I really like.
What is a gardening blog without some pics inbetween and to end .. a fairy

happy blogging

First blog

Everyone is doing it , so I finally got my gear in and now look at me , I'm blogging.

the name ? I used to say "So much to do, so little time" and then very little got done. So now I say "Whatever". It comes from Barbra Johnson , one of may favorite authors. She was going through a very difficult time in her life and when it had reached more than she could handle she handed it over to God saying "Whatever Lord" (my version of her story). For me it just means my life is in God's control, He is in control of what is in it. And He needs me to go through whatever life throws in my life pot.

why blog? .. hopefully somebody would read it and enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying living it. And if not , years from now I can read it and say "wow" I forgot I had done that.

interests ? .. always growing. At the moment I'm into gardening on the outside and cross stitching on the inside. I really like the idea of eating from my own garden , and this is what the menu will look like in 2 months time, except for the orchid .. that is so pretty , I could just eat it up .. but not really.

since this picture was take I've added marrow and radish and borage.

I'll send more details on the cross stich when it actually looks like something.

other important things about me is that I love the Lord with all my heart, my soul and my mind. He comes first before anything else in my life.

next comes my husband , Peter .. I have been spoilt in my life having an amazing man like him .. I feel like God's youngest, most spoilt child. To have a good husband is truly something to boast about.

I have two children. Nicole is 5 and Daniel is 2 and thanks to them , every day is a surprise. Who needs a perfectly organized day .. thats boring.

till next blog

Whatever ! :)