I’ve been Tagged!
My kids play Freeze Tag, Bible Tag, and one (new to me) called Candle Tag where you freeze in place and then slowly melt to the ground. Tag is a great game – it can be played in small or large spaces, it lets kids run off some of their never ending energy, and even has a built in rest time where you can catch your breath (my kind of game). Of course, the game can be rather discouraging for those who are not fast runners (that would be me). Depending on the mercy of the group playing, you could potentially be stuck “It” for the entire game, never catching any one, until you finally run home crying (hypothetically speaking).
This tag, however, is of a different sort!
Back in February of this year Ilker Yoldas created a new sort of tag. It’s a blog tag (of course) and comes with an award. Very cool!
Dorothy has tagged me for this lovely award. Dorothy lives in England and lets me come on field trips with her (via her blog). She writes in such a real voice that I often find myself laughing and nodding at the same time as I read her posts.
When you are “tagged” with the Thinking Blog Award, you pick five blogs that make you think and “tag” them. They then go on to pick five, and they pick five friends, and so on. I love the idea of sharing favorite blogs and connecting people. I am honored that Dorothy and Yvonne both tagged me. Yvonne (another one of Dorothy’s five picks) has an amazing blog full of challenge, insight and spiritual depth.
Here a list of rules to share with the blogs you are tagging. I thought it would be appropriate to include them with the meme.
The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post (the original post on the award) so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.
It’s hard to choose five blogs (just five??) that make me think but here they are:
1. Amy from In Pursuit of Proverbs 31 is a blog I’ve recently discovered. She wrote a post about decluttering the house that was powerful and convicting. The deciding factor on whether to keep or toss things — scripture! Amy has a wonderful testimony. Read and enjoy.
2. Edited to change – the blog I had chosen has since been closed. The blogger is a homeschooling mom of five awesome kiddos, and good friend. She is working on developing a new blog but I’m unsure of whether she wishes me to share the link.
3. One of my college roommates began blogging last March. The delight I took in reading Rachel’s blog was one of the thing that encouraged me to pick up the blogging baton on our Duckabush Blog. I loved hearing about her life and thoughts on parenting, God and housecleaning (not necessarily in that order). She recently wrote a post on how to survive those crazy days with a new baby in the house and it brought back such a rush of memories I almost needed a nap right then and there. 
4. Emily in FL, a SHS e-mail loop friend, has a wonderful family blog. She is working on a very lengthy series on friendship that is both challenging and practical. Emily definitely captures “Life” on her blog, “Life in Pictures.”
5. Tina, a dear friend serving with New Tribes Mission in Thailand, has a brand new blog. I love reading anything Tina writes because she is truly a woman after God’s own heart and I knew her “when.” When she was an ordinary person (not a lofty missionary ), when she lived down the road from us, and when she was a mom just like the rest of us. Watching their family be called into the ministry and follow God’s leading (over years of labor and faithfulness) has been a huge blessing in my life.
Whew. It took me all evening (it seemed) to come up with this list. I hope you grab a cup of coffee, maybe some chocolate, and find some new treasures.
Kathy
What’s a “meme”?
I just looked it up, but I’m still not totally sure I understand!
Congrats on the award. Fascinating subjects!! AK
Oh, Kath, you are so fun. Thanks for all the nice words, although I’m totally intimidated to have to come up with five people. What I love about your blog is that you convey ideas and struggles and issues to think about through well-told stories.
(Also, I’ve seen some of these awards on other people’s blogs, and they put a copy of the award over to the side so people visiting can see it all the time. That sounds like way too much for me to figure out how to do, but you computer-oriented people can probably do it with no trouble.:))
Rachel – don’t be intimidated! There’s no penalty if you can’t/don’t want to come up with five (although as a first born rule follower, I never even THOUGHT of such a possibility until Tim pointed it out).
I think you are right, people do post the award on the side. I don’t know how to do that and would need Tim to help me.
Again, I don’t think you have to be complicated about it. Just list five blogs that you read and include the rules. Try to grab the little graphic for your blog (if you can) and let it go at that. Mainly I think it’s fun to see what other blogs people are reading.
Thank you for your sweet words about my blog. Are we going to homecoming this year??!! I’m planning/hoping to.
I’m not sure what a memeis but Liz, you just got tagged by…Laura, I think?
Har Har, I’m causing so many people to have to give up a whole evening on this!
Kathy,
Congratulations! You definitely deserve a thinking award for all of your insight into mothering, wifedom and family in general!
Thank you for tagging me even though I am not a family sort of blog. I’m going to look at the other blogs and enjoy them, I know if you recommend them they must have good stuff!
Jen
Dorothy – this Liz is my sister in law in Norway (not Liz from the SHS loop). But you certainly are causing lots of people to spend time and energy on this (and even, dare I say it, THINK). Gasp!