This Mark Twain quote was brought to my attention by my Brother-in-Law, who is writing a book on inspirational thoughts. In our conversation, he asked me what or who inspires me. I shared with him that, as a food blogger, each day as I read comments on my blog, I'm inspired by the kind folks that shower compliments upon me and my little blog. It truly is inspiring... uplifting... surprising... and encouraging. It certainly keeps me going, that's for sure. 228,000 visits since January 1st, 2008?? That's just unbelievable. It's quite difficult to believe that there are that many people would like to read what I post here.
I'm inspired by cookbooks, magazines and even creative recipe titles. I'm inspired by things I see on Food Network. I'm inspired by food-related books. I'm inspired by friends and family who give me feedback on new recipes I've tried. My husband provides endless inspiration in that he constantly praises me above and beyond in all aspects of my life. And I'm even inspired by my gym class instructor who called me "tall blond goddess" the other day. (Tall... yes, Blond... yes- with help, but Goddess... please. Not really!) In all of these instances, inspiration is found.
A few bloggers were kind enough to send some inspirational awards my way while I was on vacation last month.
Tina from Mommy's Kitchen (Mesquite, TX) sent me the Brillante Weblog award.
I'd like to pass along this award to the following fabulous bloggers:
Alosha's Kitchen
Supermarket Serenade
Slice of Sueshe
Farida from AZCookbook.com (Long Beach, CA) and Sara from My Sister's Cucina (location ??) sent me the Yum Yum Blog Award.
I'll pass this one along to these awesome sites:
My Cake Wardrobe
Tea and Wheaten Bread
Baking with Dynamite
Sharon from Culinary Adventures of a New Wife (San Diego, CA) sent me the Arte y Pico award.
I'll pass this award along to the following droolworthy blogs:
Clumbsy Cookie
5 Second Rule
Crabby Cook
Leslie from The Hungry Housewife (Tampa, FL) sent me The Smile Award.
And this one I'll pass along to the whole bunch of ya!
Thank you all for taking the time to recognize my blog with awards. You're truly part of my everyday inspiration, and I appreciate you oodles.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
I Can Live For Two Months On a Good Compliment...
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22 comments:
Congrats on all your well deserved awards!
Will cooking goddess suit you just fine? Hee hee :)
Take the goddess and run with it! Don't give that away!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :0)
Congrats on all your awards! You're right it really is special when that many people read and enjoy your blog. Keep on doing whatever you are doing, because it's working :)
Thank you very much for passing the award on to me. Us food bloogers are very similar, and it's great to see hard work go noticed.
You have a great site too, I'll def keep it bookmarked :)
Congrats Lori
Well done. You deserve a special trophy case now. Tell you husband to get out the tools!
"Doc"
Congrats RecipeGirl. You're an inspiration to us all!
Congratulations on your well-deserved awards.
Congrats abound on the well deserved success and recognition :)
yeay for the recipe goddess! :)
Thanks, RecipeGirl... this is great! I really appreciate the Arte y Pico Award. I can honestly say I've never received an Arte e Pico award before in my life.
Wow, you're quite the award winner. That's awesome.
And thank you so much. I will proudly display the award on my blog. :)
Congrats on your collection of awards! : )
superstar! tall blond goddess, eh? that's a lovely thing to say! no one's ever complimented me like that...but then again, i'm short and brunette. :)
Oh my! So many awards! Thanks for passing the arte de pico to me! It was my first of that kind! Thank you really!
Congratulations Lori. The awards befit the goddess!
It is neat to stop a moment and think where our inspiration comes from, thanks for that...
wow! thanks so much!
and congrats on your awards as well. :-P
Congrats on your awards and thank you so much for passing one on to me!
Congrats and Thank you! I feel much honored!
Congrats on all your well deserved awards!
Rosie x
Thank you so much for my award. I am delighted to get this from you and your lovely blog :):):)
xxx
Yea! Congratulations!! They are beautiful awards.
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