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Monday 28 January 2013

Liebster Award


We are so honoured to receive the Liebster nod from Life on Peanut Layne.
We are a collective of women who are doing their best to raise 7 lovely children.
We have all learned a number of lessons and some insight along the way that we share on our blog three days a week.

In the tradition of the Liebster Award, a number of us answered the 11 questions,
and here is the summary.

Tightrope Mama

1. Do you have any phobias? Birds — especially peacocks
2. What is your favourite season? Fall
3. What is the inspiration behind your blog? Anonymity
4. What is your favourite place to shop? Carters, Osh Gosh, and for me [at
     the time] Old Navy Maternity
5. What is your favourite food? Butter chicken, pizza, ice cream, tacos…um, I
    am pregnant
6. Do you have a favourite room in your home? Any room that is quiet
7. Do you have a favourite quote? “Remember Ginger Rogers did everything
Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.” Faith Whittlesley
8. What made you start writing a blog? Bourbon to start
9. Do you have a Facebook page for your blog? No
10. Do you have any bad habits? Hundreds
11. What is your dream job? Oprah with kids

Drama Mama

1. Losing my iPhone
2. Spring
3. Encourage fearless confessionals safely
4. London Topshop and J. Crew online
5. Blue cheese paté
6. My bed
7. “Never apologize.” Katherine Hepburn
8. I want to be famous
9. “I don’t know; do we, ladies?” [nope]
10. I don’t sleep when she sleeps
11. Artistic director of theatre company in a small town

East End Mama

1.Confrontation
2.Summer
3.Using anonymity to talk about the truth of motherhood
4.New York City (I can dream)
5.Cheese
6.Backyard hammock
7.“She was never bored because she was never boring.” Origin hazy, but I
    got it from the Pet Shop Boys
8. Wanted to tell other moms that we are all dealing with the crazy, so they’ll
    all be fine
9. Nope
10. Procrastination
11. Travel writer. Okay, I take that back: a Lego artist


Gray Mama

1.I am afraid of heights
2.Fall
3.Mamas are all struggling behind the façade
4.Scotch & soda
5.Sushi
6.Bathroom, more specifically the shower — the only REAL place I get
   some ME time
7. “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed it is
   the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
8. To express our thoughts and help other mamas feel normal
9. Not yet
10. Drinking vino
11. Stay-at-home mama

Finally, as requested, we have thought about it long and hard, and here are the 3
blogs that we have nominated for the Liebster Award:

The Hipster Homemaker

Big City Mama

I Like Beer and Babies


So, mamas — thanks for the acknowledgement, and we hope those we have
nominated feel warm and fuzzy for a moment and know that you have 6 mama’s
listening.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks! Answers below!

    1. Do you have any phobias? Needles and spiders
    2. What is your favourite season? Summer
    3. What is the inspiration behind your blog? Alcohol
    4. What is your favourite place to shop? trader joes
    5. What is your favourite food? Wine
    6. Do you have a favourite room in your home? Living room
    7. Do you have a favourite quote? "There is no human urge greater than the urge to change someone else's copy." H.G. Wells
    8. What made you start writing a blog? Post party's delusion
    9. Do you have a Facebook page for your blog? Yes
    10. Do you have any bad habits? Nose picking
    11. What is your dream job? Blogging full time for millions

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