I’m embarrassed and very ashamed.

Why?

Because our dear friends over at Hey It’s Jet Here, presented us with the Blog of the Year 2012 Award.

2012 Blog of the Year Award

No that’s not anything to be ashamed of!  What I’m ashamed of is they presented it to us over two weeks ago.

My excuse?

Of course I have an excuse,

I was working on the Calendars.  (I can still use this excuse for now because it hasn’t been that long.  Rest assured I’ll be sitting here thinking of another excuse once I can no longer use that one.)

Getting an award from a fellow blogger is like winning the people’s choice award.  Your work is judged by those who read you consistently, not someone who reviews a select portion of your work once a year.

What?

It’s not an Emmy?

You’re right of course, it’s better than an Emmy!

The Blog of the Year 2012 Award comes with its own set of rules, as do most blogging awards.

Ready?

Here goes:

1)  Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award:

While I love reading every one of your blogs, I’m going to keep my choices down to a select few.

• My Brown Newfies – Her post yesterday was titled “What’s eating Jenny Jugs?”  There’s a whole story behind the name Jenny Jugs and I actually laughed out loud.  I get such a kick out of Jen and her stories of Sherman and Leroy.

• 2 Brown Dawgs – I was so excited when they decided to add a third dog to their pack and I’ve enjoyed watching Freighter grow over this past year.  I find this blog to be educational and informative and love learning about training your dog to hunt.

• Rescued Insanity – What an inspirational blog.  Kristine adopted a dog. A dog that was a little bit nuts, but did Kristine give up on Shiva or turn her back over to the pound? NO.  She worked with her dog and kept working with her dog.  When I see how far Kristine has come with Shiva, it definitely gives me hope for Delilah! (Shhhh, she’s actually the inspiration for me taking Delilah back to class, but don’t tell.)

• Something Wagging – Come on, you knew it had to be coming!  I sometimes think her blog should have been titled Heart Like a Dog, because I read her posts about the lessons she is learning from Honey and I think to myself, why can’t you do that with your stories?  Duh, because I’m not Pamela!

• Shoes on the Wrong Feet – This woman can write.  I love the way she spins a story.  If you’ve never read her story about the chipmunk and the cat (that was not her cat but now is her cat)…..well let’s just say you need to read it.  When she’s not being hysterically funny….she’s being serious.  But either way, it’s a great read.

I suppose I could continue, pulling each blog from my blogroll or google reader and telling you why I think they deserve the Blog of the Year 2012 Award, but I think it’s wise to stop here while your still reading.

The rest of the rules:

2)  Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3)  Please include a link back to this page and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4)  Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.

5)  You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page  and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience.

6)  As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars.

I’m not sure what the whole ‘star’ thing is about and I don’t have an area on the sidebar to display badges.  Guess I have something to work on, huh?

Are you familiar with the blogs I chose?  If not, then you’ve got some reading to do. 🙂